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This years White Turf festival in St. Moritz took place over the first 3 Sundays of February. Here are some spectacular images from past years.
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(This entry was originally published on Kimberly Rinker’s Blog, Harness Racing Insider but it was so good that we have promoted it to the main page.)
I’ve been involved in harness racing since 1981, when I was a publicity intern with the United States Trotting Association while still a journalism major at The Ohio State [...]

We are happy to say that, Illinois based journalist and 2007 Hervey Award Winner Kimberly Rinker has started a blog on HarnessRacingBlog.com.
Check it out here, or click the link to it in the right sidebar.
From the Blog:
From here we’ll try to keep harness racing fans up-to-date with the latest happenings and goings on from the world [...]

This entry was originally posted on the Save Your Horse! Blog, but we thought it deserved a little more exposure.
 

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Although it goes against all logic, a horse will return to his stall in a burning barn. There is reason for this. If he is regularly stabled, he perceives his stall as a [...]

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I had just finished writing an exam; in I think Modern Symbolic Logic, at the downtown campus at the University of Toronto. I was 18. I had $1.50 in my pocket – streetcar fare. I sped to the bus stop and finally made it [...]

We have a new blog on HarnessRacingBlog.com on Horse Safety. Michelle Staples shows you how to keep your horse safe and what to do when it’s in trouble. Check out the front page here - Save Your Horse!
Or have a look at some of her featured posts:

How to Tie a Horse
What to do When Your [...]

So you want to own a racehorse do you? Well, that’s what I said back in the late ‘80’s when I got started in harness racing. A decision that I would never have thought would become my livelihood today. It’s funny how things evolve.
I’m sure there are many fans today that have had the [...]

Same crowd tonight I thought as the 1st race entries turned onto the track. It continually amazed me that the same faces, the same voices, the same conversations seemed to repeat themselves over and over again. While I didn’t mind many of those faces, in fact enjoyed most of their company, it seemed [...]

“Hollywood “Bob Heyden is a superb racing analyst and is a regular on Canada’s HPI TV selecting his bet of the day. Bob also takes part in the Meadowlands TV program that airs on a regular basis where he adds his insight into the racing. In todays post we have gone back through the Harnesslink [...]

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I write about horseplayer issues on my blog quite a bit. Let’s face it, horseplayers are a forgotten lot. To other gamblers we might be “those crazy guys who bet that egregious rake.” To the general public we are even worse; perhaps we are “degenerates who yell at TV screens [...]