Somebeachsomewhere - Harness Racing’s Saviour

July 2, 2008

By Derick Giwner

With all due respect to Martin Luther King Jr., I have a dream. I have a dream that Somebeachsomewhere can be the savior of the harness industry by accomplishing feats of uncommon genius.
I have a dream that he will be the horse that I fondly remember as I reach my latter years […]


Is the OHHA Paying a Company to Spam?

June 11, 2008

Logging in to Harnesslink’s YouTube account today I noticed a couple of people had left a comment on the main channel page. Strange, because the channel has been around for nearly a year and has only had one comment up until this week.
Even more strange is that both the comments relate to the new Ontario […]


Nobody asked, but here’s an opinion

June 10, 2008

By Carol Hodes
It looks like we are going to be able to fill it to the rim with Brim again. The coffee, which was marketed from 1961 until the mid 1990s, is about to make a return to supermarket shelves along with other seemingly “dead” brands. Volkswagen brought back the Beetle a few years […]


OIR - Only in Racing

May 13, 2008

Pull the Pocket’s been ranting, and he makes a lot of sense. His latest post Only in Racing explores the strange predicaments that arise in the racing industry. A couple of good ones:
We think rebated players stick their rebates in a sock.
We call our customers “disgruntled gamblers”.
We charge people for racing data and past performances. […]


Share The Data and Spread the Word

May 1, 2008

At Harnesslink, we like to get information out there. We build stuff that we can share, that anybody can use and that’s open and free. In the last year we have built a harness racing search engine “On the Bit” that searches close to 1000 harness racing websites worldwide.
(function () { onthebit = new […]


6 Times a Year

March 10, 2008

This post is was originally a comment we received in response to Matt Smith’s On Getting Joe Punter Back to the Track. We thought it was worthy of a little more attention:
I agree that harness racing should be aiming to get those generation X and Yers who attend once a year to attend, say, […]


On Getting Joe Punter Back to the Track

March 3, 2008

By Matt Smith
Harnesslink Editor
For those of you who had the pleasure of reading my press release on our brand new blog system, you’ll notice how keen I am to see people return to the track to soak up the atmosphere that is the sport of harness racing.
Since getting more involved in the sport in […]