Harness racing's popularity has declined since its peak in the mid-20th century. Mike Calderone is investing in a new approach to revitalize harness racing by focusing on the horses themselves rather ...

Illinois enacted a sweeping law in 2019 to allow casinos at horse racing tracks, known as racinos. Nearly five years later, Hawthorne Race Course, a main beneficiary of the legislation, still hasn’t ...

For Ronnie Gillespie, the path to success can be summed up in two words: faith and patience. Faith led the Mississippi native to step away from his job in construction and become a harness racing ...

An iconic New Jersey racetrack announced that it will be closing after 170 years. Freehold Raceway first opened in 1854. The nation’s oldest daytime harness racing track still running will end racing ...

More than three years after Scarborough Downs closed the chapter on 70 years of live harness racing, the sport is still going strong in southern Maine, led by local investors with a long-term plan to ...

FREEHOLD - Officials at Freehold Raceway, where harness racing has been conducted since the mid-1800s, say they plan to cease all live racing and simulcast operations by the end of the year, citing ...

When legalized sports gambling was proposed in Kentucky, one of the fears was that allowing people to wager on other sports would hurt the thoroughbred industry vital to the state’s economy. To ...

Harness-racer Hunter Myers died this morning hours after he was thrown from his sulky and struck his head on the track Wednesday afternoon during horse racing at the Meadows in North Strabane. A ...

Freehold Raceway — the oldest operating racetrack in the country — is ceasing all live racing and simulcast operations at the end of the year, racetrack officials announced Thursday. The last day at ...