How Much Money Does A Harness Driver Make

by Bob Heyden

There are 22 members of the $100 1000000 driving club with Sylvain Filion likely to join the group this summer. He stands at just over $95 meg in career earnings.

Of the 22 that have surpassed $100 million, Cat Manzi leads them all with 95,690 career starts. Tony Morgan is adjacent at 84,934.

Of the agile drivers on the list, David Miller and Tim Tetrick are the two leading coin drivers. John Campbell, Ron Pierce and Mike Lachance are the leading coin drivers among inactive reinsmen.

Yannick Gingras is about $800,000 shy of catching Cat Manzi and moving into the #8 slot.

Dave Magee with 70,119 drives volition shortly see Dave Palone surge by into the all-time #3 slot for career starts on the $100 meg listing. Palone is less than 500 away.

Palone is also tops on the list in terms of career wins with 18,233 career victories — seven,392 in the 20th century and x,841 in the 21st century.

Jim Morrill, Jr. (37,482) and Yannick Gingras (38,368) are the only two among the top 22 drivers with fewer than twoscore,000 career drives.

Jason Bartlett is 25th on the all-time earnings list having landed in the top iii in 2017 for the first time.

High(est) Fives

The post-obit list is of great achievements in the sport of harness racing that came in bunches — bunches of five to be verbal. Many of these are unlikely to be duplicated.

1. Adios siring five straight Little Brownish Jug winners:

1958 — Shadow Wave
1959 — Adios Butler
1960 — Bullet Hanover
1961 — Henry T Adios
1962 — Lehigh Hanover

ii. The best fastest Breeders Crown mile is one:47 fix in 2009 by a v-year-onetime named Won The West.

iii. John Campbell broke the logjam at four with his fifth Hambletonian in 1998 with Muscles Yankee.

4. Jimmy Takter — likely with Manchego — volition go later his tape fifth sequent Hambletonian Oaks in 2018.

five. Five Horse of the Twelvemonth titles for Frank Ervin— done with but two horses!
1949, 1952 Skillful Time 1964, 1965, 1966 Bret Hanover

6. Five year olds went dorsum to back in the Horse of the Year race for the first time ever in 2016-2017 as E'er B Miki and Hannelore Hanover won year-terminate hardware.

vii. 2018 marks five years since the last HOY won a race on Hambletonian Day, the longest always such drought

2014 – J M She'due south A Lady didn't race
2015 – Wiggle It Jiggleit was fourth in the Cane won by Dealt A Winner
2016 – Always B Miki — part of a stellar field in the U South Pacing Title — was unable to stall the tardily rally of Shamballa in 1:47.1.
2017 – H annelore Hanover was sent off at twenty cents on the dollar, but tired in the deep stretch to Pasithea Face, the French Jimmy Takter mare who grinded it out commencement over.

8. Five straight division titles for Peace Corps who won it each year from ages 2 to 6 (1988-1992).

nine. Five times Mike Lachance drove the winner of a million-dollar race never having driven that horse before in a race:

1992 — Safely Kept NA Cup
1998 — Directly Path NA Cup
2001 — Mach Three Metro
2003 — All American Theory Meadowlands Pace
2003 — Amigo Hall Hambletonian

ten. Five Breeders Crown driving wins for David Miller in Canada in 2015

11. Artsplace, during his undefeated 1992 season, had a streak of 5 straight different drivers that summer. Almost notably, Cat Manzi, whose one and merely consignment with the great Artsplace resulted in a ane:49.2 globe tape at the Meadowlands on June 20, 1992. The first to lower Nihilator'due south mark of one:49.iii in a race prepare vii YEARS before.

12. Valley Victory siring the winners of all five checks in a major trotting event — the 1996 Buoy Course (Stanley Dancer today) — with Lindy Lane-Act Of Grace-Continentalvictory, Pietro Pan and Mr Vic.

David Miller and so and now

Then:
1981 — 30 4-2-2 .193 UDRS $1,891
1982 — 42 3-2-5 .164 UDRS $4,788
1983 — six 0-0-2 .111 UDRS $1,203
1984 — 7 two-0-0 .286 UDRS $two,120

That's — $10,004, combined, if yous're counting at dwelling.

Since then, Miller is the only commuter ever to:

• win with a Triple Crown and Breeders Crown winner (No Pan Intended).
• win five Breeders Crowns in one night (2015).
• defeat Muscle Hill (Homer Jay – 2008 NJSS).
• win with a female horse in one:47 (Shebestingin).
• win with a male horse in 1:46 (Ever B Miki).
• have fifteen $10 million seasons.
• exist the leading agile money-winning driver.
• accept a streak of four straight years of having a ane:47 or better race winner each yr (2013-2016).
• win the Jug and 10 races the same day.

Source: https://harnessracingupdate.com/2018/03/11/hollywoods-hits-the-100-million-driving-club/

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