For more than 50 years Larry Horn has been training Standardbreds for harness racing. Last Christmas eve he received a phone call and unexpected news. Larry learned he was being inducted into the Michigan Harness Horsemen’s Association Hall of Fame. "I was stunned. I didn't think I heard right," Larry said. "It never crossed my mind [...]
A mare in Selby (Australia) named “Flame of Trunkey” has reached an incredible milestone and has celebrated her 40th birthday (in human years that’s about 110 years old). Flame is a Standardbred Harness Race Horse born in NSW (New South Wales) in 1976. She was bought as a yearling by the mother-in-law of her current owner, [...]
“American Girl” was a famous harness racer who died during a race in1875. “Weak-jointed, loose-gaited, worst looking, crooked-legged filly that was ever foaled in Peekskill, but grew into an outstanding specimen of a Standardbred horse”. The 13-year-old bay mare had quite a racing reputation by the time she arrived at the Eldridge Driving Park in Elmira, [...]
