YONKERS, NY, Friday, February 3, 2017 - Red Hot Herbie and Guantanamo Bay earned the praise of the harness racing populace Saturday night, winning Favored 'Herbie'-from post position No. 5 in the week's marquee trot-stalked the second-choice, eight-baller Allerage Star through moderate intervals of :28, 58.4 and 1:27.

YONKERS, NY, Sunday, January 29, 2017 - Springbank Sam N put in a solid, two-move harness racing effort Sunday afternoon, winning One of a handful of leavers-from post position No. 4 -Springbank Sam N wound up in a three-hole at the :29.1 opening quarter-mile.

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The National Thoroughbred Racing Association , Daily Racing Form , and the National Turf Writers And Broadcasters announced Jan. 4 that Tod Marks won the 2016 Media Eclipse Award for Photography for a picture of the stretch run of the Sloan Hurdle at the Iroquois Steeplechase meet in Nashville, during which fallen jockey Kieran Norris is diving toward his loose whip as his luckier competitor, Hooded, streaks by. This is the first Eclipse Award for Marks, who resides in Yonkers, N.Y., and is a regular contributor to The Chronicle of the Horse , The Saratoga Special , thisishorseracing.com , and many other publications.

The United States Harness Writers Association, harness racing's largest and leading membership organization for industry communicators, is very pleased to announce that Empire City Casino at Yonkers Raceway and the Standardbred Owners Association of New York are partnering with USHWA in sponsoring the cocktail party and open bar at its annual Dan Patch Awards Banquet Presented by Hoosier Park, which will be held on Sunday, Feb. 26, at the Planet Hollywood casino in Las Vegas. The sponsorship features a lavish cocktail party from 6-7 p.m. and then an open bar during the Dan Patch awards dinner until 10 p.m. In addition, every guest attending the dinner will receive a special edition Yonkers-SOA/NY-USHWA commemorative wine glass.

SOANY and Yonkers to sponsor Dan Patch banquet cocktail party Friday, December 23, 2016 - from the U.S. Harness Writers Association The sponsorship features a lavish cocktail party from 6-7 p.m. and then an open bar during the Dan Patch awards dinner until 10 p.m. In addition, every guest attending the dinner will receive a special edition Yonkers-SOA/NY-USHWA commemorative wine glass. Yonkers Raceway dates back as a host of harness racing to 1899 and its origins as the Empire City Trotting Club; in 1950, William Cane recast the facility as a pari-mutuel harness racing track, and the Rooney family has operated the oval since 1972.

In early November, 10 harness racing fans were randomly chosen from the USTA new owner's database to each receive five percent of the earnings of a designated horse racing at Yonkers Raceway through the end of the meet. The 3-year-old trotting gelding Emerald Chip was chosen for the promotion with trainer Andrew Harris.

The Standardbred Owners Association of New York and Yonkers Raceway have joined together to offer 10 harness racing fans a chance to own part of a horse racing at Yonkers Raceway. Ten lucky fans were randomly chosen through the USTA's new ownership database and each person will receive a five percent stake in the three-year-old trotter Emerald Chip.

YONKERS, NY, Saturday, November 5, 2016 -- Harness racing favorites Mach it So and Wind of the North prevailed Saturday night, winning Mach it So won a two-speed number in the weekly pacing. From post position No.