Harness/Trotting Racing
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Muscle Hill Will Win Harness Horse of the Year
Muscle Hill cruised to the Standardbred Breeders Crown title. He is being mentioned with the very greats of harness racing, and should easily capture Horse of the Year. more...
Muscle Hill Looking Like Best Trotter Ever
Trainer Greg Peck on Muscle Hill: "...a lot of people have said to me that he's the greatest trotter they've ever seen". The colt will finish in the Breeders Crown. more...
Showherthemoney Wins the Jugette
Standardbred pacer Showherthemoney straightened out her erratic gait and became the first daughter of a previous champion to win Delaware, Ohio's prestigious Jugette. more...
Western Hanover Sons Dominated Little Brown Jug
Western Hanover topped 2008 as the year's leading money-earning pacing sire, and he's got a lock on 2009, as well. His boys Well Said and If I Can Dream won in the Jug. more...
Little Brown Jug Draws Top Four Pacers
Owners decided their pacing stars could handle multiple heats at the Little Brown Jug, which drew all four of the season's top pacers. The purse was up from last season. more...
Well Said Wins Little Brown Jug in Two Heats
In a dandy second heat of Western Hanover colts, NA Cup and Meadowlands Pace victor Well Said and If I Can Dream battled home from the last turn in the Little Brown Jug. more...
Meadowlands Pace Yonkers Cards and Driving Stats
Ron Pierce vaulted to second place in 2009 earnings behind victories with Well Said and Judge Joe in the Meadowlands Pace and the Yonkers. He is chasing Tim Tetrick. more...
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Star Trotters of the Palo Alto Farm, 1881-1895
By: Linda N. Riggins
The Palo Alto Stock Farm consistently produced trotting horses that lowered records. more...
World's Largest Trotter Horse Farm, Late 1800s
By: Linda N. Riggins
In 1876 he began building his huge horse operation in Palo Alto, about 30 miles south of San Francisco. more...
Rules for Raising a Champion Trotting Horse
By: Linda N. Riggins
The Palo Alto System, devised by Leland Stanford and implemented by the skilled personnel he hired, was a blueprint for producing fast trotters. more...
Eadweard Muybridge's Horse Photos, Late 1870s
By: Linda N. Riggins
After an absence, photographer Eadweard Muybridge was back in Sacramento, California by 1877 to take more photos of Leland Stanford's famous trotter Occident. more...
Eadweard Muybridge Photographs Running Horse,'73
By: Linda N. Riggins
In the 1870s some racehorse cognoscenti pondered whether at any time while running, horses have all hooves off the ground, an idea sometimes called unsupported transit. more...
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