2023 Trot N.A. Cup Spring Book: #10 April 17, 2023 With the date of the 2023 Pepsi North America Cup just two months away, Trot Insider will profile some of the race's top contenders as horses ready to compete for one of Canadian harness racing's bigg...
Meadowlands Qualifiers Headlined By Takter Trainees April 07, 2023 The Friday morning (April 7) qualifiers at The Meadowlands were headlined by familiar names that have had significant careers thus far in harness racing and Nancy Takter trainees were the ones that fr...
Treacherous Dragon Back To Breathe Fire April 06, 2023 As the summer stakes season nears, fans of harness racing have a number of award-winning horses from 2022 that they can look forward to watching return to the racetrack in 2023. One of those standouts...
Barker Living The Dream At U.S. Stable March 02, 2023 Mitch Barker is on the trip of a lifetime, with the Ballarat, Australia horseman now based in the United States and working alongside master trainer Nancy Takter.
Five Trainers Seek Hambo-Oaks Double August 03, 2022 Since the inception of the Hambletonian Oaks in 1971 as the filly companion event to the Hambletonian Stakes for three-year-old trotters, two trainers — Jan Johnson and Jimmy Takter — have won both ra...
Bella Bellini Feeling At Home At Big M October 28, 2021 Hambletonian Oaks winner Bella Bellini will try to add the Breeders Crown to her credits in Saturday’s $650,000 final for three-year-old female trotters at The Meadowlands.
Really Fast Rebounds In KY Series August 17, 2021 After making a break and finishing ninth in the $1 million Hambletonian, Nancy Takter trainee Really Fast promptly rebounded with a forceful 1:52.3 performance to take the $40,000 second-round divisio...
Hambletonian 2021: A Final Look August 06, 2021 Over the past dozen years, one Dan Patch Award-winning two-year-old male trotter has returned at three and won the Hambletonian. That was Pinkman in 2015.
Dunn, Takter Dominate Championship Opener August 01, 2021 Driver Dexter Dunn and trainer Nancy Takter teamed to take three of the four $40,000 divisions of the Kentucky Championship Series on Sunday (Aug. 1) at The Red Mile. Dunn totaled six victories on the...
JK First Lady Favoured In Clara Barton July 23, 2021 Fresh off her eye-popping 1:47.4 mile that set a new world record for four-year-old pacing mares at The Meadowlands last week in the $178,500 Dorothy Haughton Memorial, JK First Lady will ship to Plai...
Takter Talks Manchego Ahead Of 'Spirit' July 21, 2021 Three-time Breeders Crown champion Manchego will return to the scene of her 1:49.3 world record performance when she starts in the $250,000 Spirit of Massachusetts Trot at Plainridge Park on Sunday (J...
Takter Babies Triple At Big M July 03, 2021 Nancy Takter trainees swept the first three races on an abbreviated Saturday morning (July 3) qualifying session at The Meadowlands, with the first five heats on the seven-race program dedicated to tw...