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General Category => Harness Racing => Topic started by: Elcrabadore on August 12, 2026, 11:05:54 AM
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A few owners or trainers insist on their driver change out of regular driver colors and put on different colors. In other words, wearing someone else's clothes. Do they think the changed colors are going to make a difference in performance? USTA should require driver colors to be consistently worn as selected by the driver and not changed by a few owners or trainers. Very confusing for the fans.
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Dexter does this shit.
It's annoying as fuck.
See it in qualifiers too.
Some of the drivers never do it.
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Melander does it
he had YG wear the stable colors this year and had TT do it in previous years
it happens and the drivers have no say in it
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Diamond Creek Farm and Lindy Farms also have their driver's wear their stable colors.
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Diamond Creek Farm and Lindy Farms also have their driver's wear their stable colors.
I guess it's up to the owners but it looks ridiculous.
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A few owners or trainers insist on their driver change out of regular driver colors and put on different colors. In other words, wearing someone else's clothes. Do they think the changed colors are going to make a difference in performance? USTA should require driver colors to be consistently worn as selected by the driver and not changed by a few owners or trainers. Very confusing for the fans.
It’s just a jacket that they put over their own colors
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I guess it's up to the owners but it looks ridiculous.
The ones who do it are obviously very rich so it's like a trophy to them.
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They have done it for years off and on. Farm or Stable colors, Hanover, John Simpson Sr. originally Maroon and white. Arden Homestead, Lady J, Goldfish, she is now wearing her own Green red and white/ Clearview Farms (Norman Woolworth)Duenna, Stanley Dancer, Hambletonian. Lindy Farms etc. It's not up to the trainer, it's up to the owner. You want to drive do what the ask.It's also easier for the owners to see their horses. This is how the T-breds have always done it.
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Melander does it
he had YG wear the stable colors this year and had TT do it in previous years
it happens and the drivers have no say in it
The drivers can refuse if they want although risk losing the drive. Thoroughbred jocks change colors every race, no big deal.
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They should be willing to accommodate the request of the owner, they pay the bills. In Flats racing, the jocks change silks EVERY RACE.
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They should be willing to accommodate the request of the owner, they pay the bills. In Flats racing, the jocks change silks EVERY RACE.
And the owners have to pay for the silks too!
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Done at the owner's request, requires approval. I don't see the big deal. Many of these are generational stables that used to have their own colors from a hundred years ago. Others are the Scandinavian thing where stables, owners, farms, all had their own colors as well. If a driver uses the owner's colors, I see it, and next. Not an issue.
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And the owners have to pay for the silks too!
YES
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And the owners have to pay for the silks too!
It’s not a whole set of silks. It’s only the top. It’s a jacket they put over their own colors.
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Diamond Creek Farm and Lindy Farms also have their driver's wear their stable colors.
I would drive in my "Friut of the Looms" if it was required to get those accounts!! ngc3
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Owners pay the bills-so they like to see their colors go around--easier for them to spot their horse--only question in Harness Racing would be if Burke or other multiple entries -had 2-3 in same race all with different owners who wanted their own colors-- the drivers would probably have to have different helmets? Otherwise how could you tell the drivers apart?
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Like the t-breds, they can use helmet covers. I doubt it's going there as a whole, but certain owners will continue to use their own colors.
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Drivers were always wearing their own colors. When they put these other stupid color over top they look like idiots period!!!
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Been happening for years but you guys that are still wet behind the ears have probably never seen it. ngc3
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Owners pay the bills-so they like to see their colors go around--easier for them to spot their horse--only question in Harness Racing would be if Burke or other multiple entries -had 2-3 in same race all with different owners who wanted their own colors-- the drivers would probably have to have different helmets? Otherwise how could you tell the drivers apart?
As usual nobody cares about the paying customers because the paying customers are irrelevant because almost all the purses are paid by government handouts. Now the customers are gone. Without the handouts the owners would not even be able to feed the horses. The handouts need to end.