Harness Racing Blog

This week Harnesslink reached a record 70,000 articles published on Harnesslink.com. But what’s the point of all that if you can’t find an old story you’re looking for.
Well I’m glad you asked.
You can browse back thousands of articles using the News Archive feature and find what was going on in harness racing on any given day. [...]

One of our new Blogger’s - US Harness Racing -  just posted a new entry. He’s off to Vegas for the 2009 racing conference (PDF), and updated his blog from the airport. While there he’ll be twittering some notes from his phone so people can follow what’s being said in real time.
‘US Harness Racing’ is [...]

Standardbred Weekly is a new (and free) Harness Racing podcast presented by James Witherite-Rieg, track announcer at Harrah’s Chester Downs in Pennsylvania.
If you’re not quite sure, a podcast is a downloadable audio file which you can listen to online, or have it get automatically “pushed” to your iTunes account so that you can play it [...]

Today Google launched magazine search, part of their quest to digitize and index all of the world information. Through Google book search, you can now look back through a catalog of (initially) dozens of magazines.
So of course I plug in “harness racing” and what do I get:
The following written apparently by Billy Haughton in the [...]

Today Standardbred Canada have launched a campaign to make Somebeachsomewhere the 2008 Lou Marsh Trophy recipient for Canada’s athlete of the year.
Back in olden times, Dan Patch was considered the most famous sporting icon in America. And although times have changed it would be nice if Somebeach could bring back some of harness racing’s glory.
Go [...]

Why can’t we?
MLB.com (major league baseball) is leading the convergence between sports and technology. They have 24 hour streaming video, available on any device, and however you want to consume it - be it highlights, live games etc.
Go read this article from Fast Company and then check out MLB.com. (Links open in a new window.)
Then [...]

This is a guest post from Dean over at the Pull the Pocket blog. If you like it, consider giving him your vote.
It is no secret that with more and more gambling, a 500 channel universe and high takeouts that racing has not been doing well the past while. On the blog we speak of [...]

Right now (12:30 Wednesday NZ Time) we have the Ready to Run Sale live stream on Harnesslink. To view that sale from anywhere in the world just go to the Harnesslink homepage and look in the right sidebar.
It’s great to see PGG innovating and hopefully more sales from around the world will follow the model.
You [...]

Just a reminder that you can get Harnesslink news from your mobile phone. Fast loading and easy to use, with a very clean interface.  Just go to www.harnesslink.mobi from your mobile phone. You will need an internet enabled phone to use it.

Note: This piece primarily concerns New Zealand racing.
While recently glancing over one of my regular bookmarked sites, Racecafe, I came across a thread where it was suggested that the powers that be are looking at moving racing back to Saturday night in Auckland to maximise the punting dollar.
It won’t be a weekly thing, just on [...]