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Title: Harness Racing Is Dead
Post by: MIKE CAMPBELL on December 14, 2023, 04:01:08 AM
Aaron Merriman wins 9 at Northfield last night and there isn't even one sentence about it on the USTA site.
Title: Re: Harness Racing Is Dead
Post by: HarnessFan1981 on December 14, 2023, 09:12:19 AM
https://ustrottingnews.com/nine-is-fine-for-merriman-at-mgm-northfield-park-on-wednesday/
Title: Re: Harness Racing Is Dead
Post by: old guy on December 14, 2023, 09:19:03 AM
It's become so boring watching him get the best horses to drive and then 90% of them go to the front and go around twice and he's a hero.
Title: Re: Harness Racing Is Dead
Post by: bond on December 14, 2023, 09:30:17 AM
It's become so boring watching him get the best horses to drive and then 90% of them go to the front and go around twice and he's a hero.
Same goes for Bartlett at Yonkers.
Title: Re: Harness Racing Is Dead
Post by: HarnessFan1981 on December 14, 2023, 09:33:51 AM
Same goes for Bartlett at Yonkers.

Yup, 7 wins Tuesday night and 6 last night.
Title: Re: Harness Racing Is Dead
Post by: LUCPARK on December 14, 2023, 09:49:36 AM
USTA HAS AN EAST COAST BUAS

NOTHIN IN THE MIDWEST MATTERS TO THESE ASSHOLES

KISSING THE SAME OLD EAST COAST ASS MAKES THEM FEEL GREAT ABOUT THEMSELVES
Title: Re: Harness Racing Is Dead
Post by: wiseowl on December 14, 2023, 09:55:16 AM
How many great horses come from the mid west compared to east coast the better horses and tracks all ways get more write ups fair or not the way it is.
Title: Re: Harness Racing Is Dead
Post by: MIKE CAMPBELL on December 14, 2023, 10:01:51 AM
https://ustrottingnews.com/nine-is-fine-for-merriman-at-mgm-northfield-park-on-wednesday/
It's about time. The main advantage of a website over a newspaper is that you can post news close to real time. I guess the USTA or Northfield never got that message.
Title: Re: Harness Racing Is Dead
Post by: mwins on December 14, 2023, 11:00:21 AM
It was on Standardbred Canada.
Title: Re: Harness Racing Is Dead
Post by: HarnessFan1981 on December 14, 2023, 11:01:54 AM
It was on Standardbred Canada.

Ya but only posted at December 14, 2023 10:08 am EST
Title: Re: Harness Racing Is Dead
Post by: brownmoose13 on December 14, 2023, 11:05:10 AM
Merriman is king at Northfield but at either Scioto or Dayton he is average at best. Not sure who likes to drive 1/9 shots more Merriman or Amac
Title: Re: Harness Racing Is Dead
Post by: Generation XYZ on December 14, 2023, 11:40:52 AM
Mort!
Title: Re: Harness Racing Is Dead
Post by: dinkadoo on December 14, 2023, 12:11:41 PM
2.20
3.20
7.40
2.10
5.20
3.80
4.40
9.60
And  if you still had the will to watch, he won the last race -- 5 hours and 40 minutes after his first post time.
and Paid $3.00
Title: Re: Harness Racing Is Dead
Post by: onabrake on December 14, 2023, 12:21:33 PM
The racing side of Northfield must be losing some major amounts of cash racing 4-5 nights a week year round at 15 races per card and having a decent purse structure. Slot welfare at its finest when complete stiffs like Chris Lems and Kurt Sugg can easily do 2 million plus in purses year after year. Hell Lems was not even the leading driver at Vernon most years.
Title: Re: Harness Racing Is Dead
Post by: MIKE CAMPBELL on December 14, 2023, 01:42:36 PM
The racing side of Northfield must be losing some major amounts of cash racing 4-5 nights a week year round at 15 races per card and having a decent purse structure. Slot welfare at its finest when complete stiffs like Chris Lems and Kurt Sugg can easily do 2 million plus in purses year after year. Hell Lems was not even the leading driver at Vernon most years.
Very true about Lems at Vernon.
Title: Re: Harness Racing Is Dead
Post by: Calhoun on December 14, 2023, 06:31:20 PM
Today's harness racing carryovers

$800 Meadows pick 5
$400 Dover pick 5

It's embarrassing as fuck.
Title: Re: Harness Racing Is Dead
Post by: Brown jug on December 14, 2023, 06:40:50 PM
agreed calhoun
northfield is hillbilly central
Title: Re: Harness Racing Is Dead
Post by: Generation XYZ on December 14, 2023, 09:04:45 PM
Harness racing is dead as a door nail these past 7 years.
Title: Re: Harness Racing Is Dead
Post by: Harness Stats on December 15, 2023, 03:20:43 PM
Harness racing is dead as a door nail these past 7 years.
Your new hero plopster of the year agrees with you as for the future.  He is reading some  of the Fishman list and what he thinks is the doom of the industry.  A lot of the Taylor stuff is revealed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcaMsVFyVRU&t=1236s

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