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On that note Aussie Jamie Varcoe has started a blog, Onward & Upward. [...]

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Originally posted over on the Harness Racing Insider Blog, and promoted to the main blog.
August 11, 2008–by Kimberly Rinker

Georgian Downs rules! In my book at least. The often-ignored Innisfil Canadian oval certainly wasn’t (ignored) this past weekend. Their Saturday night, August 9th card was one of the most unique I’ve seen from a promotional [...]

Originally posted over on the Clyde Hirt Journalism Workshop Blog, and promoted to the main blog.
Here are links to some of the stories that were written by the Clyde Hirt Journalism Workshop students.
Junior Jean-Baptiste - Dewey Wins Hambo - Trentonian
Matt Hladik - Advance on Dewey - Akron Beacon Journal
Matt Hladik - Dewey Wins Hambo - [...]

This week you might have noticed a new blog on the Harness Racing Blog network of blogs. It’s authored by Jessica Schroeder, a graduate of the Workshop, who is also a member of the U.S. Harness Writers
Association at the Clyde Hirt Journalism Workshop.

The 2006 workshop with George Foreman (yes that George Foreman)
The blog aims [...]

By Kimberly Rinker

This past Spring the media has had a field day with the Triple Crown races and the magnificent thoroughbred Big Brown.
The Richard Dutrow pupil who captured the first two legs (Kentucky Derby & Preakness) in fine style and then failed to fire in the Belmont Stakes, has been the subject of controversy–both [...]

St. Moritz, Switzerland
International competition among horse people offers entrants a glimpse of how folks in foreign lands ply their trade. While their trade is your trade—the differences in the horses, the racing rules, the venues, and the people themselves—all add up to an exhilarating opportunity to broaden one’s mind as well as travel miles.Over on [...]

SQUARE TROTTING writes:
How can we have a World Cup of harness racing in Australia with pacers only? Europe is not included if this is the case. The most common harness gait in the world is trotting. A true World Cup would be a World Cup of trotting.

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Taking a quick look at what some of the blogs in our network have been saying this week:
The newly launched Harness Odds has a post up explaining which harness races are taken as fixed odds in New Zealand.
Scott Waddell questions the prevalence of online harness racing discussion boards.
Dan Roland of The View From Iowa talks [...]