The Harness Racing Alumni Show.

This week we are joined by three racing industry greats on our Harness Racing Alumni Show..!!! They are breeders & owners, Rick Berks, Steve Stewart and Gordon Banks. Rick is the owner and Steve is the breeder of this season's current fastest 2-year-old colt Gobstopper. They talk about this exceptional colt and where his name came from. The trio shares insight on trainers and the influence they have on developing horses. Gordon talks about his 4-year-old Twisted Destiney who has just won two in a row. Join us on this week's lite-hearted, fun broadcast.     

Gordon Banks and Michael Antoniades are our special guests on this week's Harness Racing Alumni Show. Both of them discuss the Kentucky racing program and how successful it has been along with what a positive impact it has been having on harness racing. Also discussed is the racing formular of promoting young horses more than horses that are claimers. Gordon also chats about the positive options for owners to use Ongait when selling horses and he talks about a filly that he has in Australia that is for sale. All on this week's very informative broadcast.  Don’t miss it….!!!

On this week's Harness Racing Alumni Show, we are joined by Hunterton Farm’s Steve Stewart. He gives us an update on racing in Kentucky and how successful the program is. He talks about how working with the thoroughbreds has been to our advantage. And Steve talks about the upcoming yearling sales. All on this week's Harness Racing Alumni Show broadcast.  

Former presiding judge Art Gray joins us on this week's Harness Racing Alumni Show. Art talks about the investigative work he is doing with Andy Cohen of the Paulic Report. He discusses integrity and corruption among racing commissions and judges. He gives several examples. Grey also talks about his upcoming hearings and adds some of the details of both hearings. All on this week's broadcast.   

On this week's Harness Racing Alumni Show we are pleased to be joined by former driver/trainers Larry Rolla and Joe Guarino. Larry gives us an update on his current cancer treatments, and his plans on moving forward. He also tells how grateful he is to all of the support, cards and letters that he has received from his friends. Joe talks about how he reached out asking Larry's friends for support and talks about his religious beliefs. Larry also talks about the progress being made on his horse cooler caps that will help in the prevention of horses dying from sudden death while racing or training. All on this week's broadcast.   

On this week's Harness Racing Alumni Show we are joined by John Kraft, a former driver/trainer and one of the administrators behind the Facebook Pocono Downs memory site. John, who grew up in the shadows of Roosevelt and Yonkers Raceways, shares his fond thoughts with Freddie and Trade of what it was like being at the track with all of the great drivers and trainers like Haughton, Insko, Herve, Carmine, the Dancers, Jimmy Cruise, and so many others. Join us on this week's fun broadcast as we share our mutual memories of harness racing's glory days.  Don’t miss it.  

On our Harness Racing Alumni Show this week, we proudly present two guests. Judy Bokman of the Standardbred Retirement Foundation and John Kraft, a former driver, trainer and owner, who is one of the people behind the Facebook Pocono Downs Memories site. Judy gives us an update on the SRF activities, how the SRF is different, and thanks John Kraft for setting up a Gofundme page for the SRF. John talks about his social media site and that had over a million views…!!! Kraft talks about his former horse Able Baker and his current and upcoming projects. Also discussed is the former SRF standardbred that was adopted by NY City Police Department that made world news chasing and arresting a purse snatcher in NY City a few days ago. All on this week's broadcast.  

This week, we’re presenting PART #2 of our Donald Dancer Harness Racing Alumni Show interview..!!! Yes, Donald Dancer returns with a lot more stories and details of his beginnings as a fine trainer - driver. He and Freddie pay tribute to Carmine Abbatiello and others through first-hand knowledge and stories at the racetracks. They also discuss the evolution of harness racing comparing then and now with some very funny tales of yesteryear. Don’t miss this week's captivating broadcast.