Harness Racing Hall of Fame (Online Tour)
The house that hold the Harness Racing Museum was originally built in 1913 as a horse stable. The collection is worth seeing if you are a racing fan.
Exhibits include more than 19,000 photos, 100’s of driver uniforms, 1800 painting, lithographs and sculptures, numerous sulkies and carts. There are also over four thousand books and videos on the sport of harness racing.
The Harness racing Hall of Fame is contained inside the museum.
Harness Racing Museum & Hall of Fame
| Bucket List ! | |
| Established | 1951 |
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| Location | Goshen, NY |
| Website | harnessmuseum.com |
If the Harness Racing Hall of Fame & the museum is not on your Bucket
List, I would recommend it.
The Museum is located in Goshen, New York.
Like many of us, the Harness Racing Museum collects and preserves the history of the wonderful sport of Harness racing. They just do it on a much grander scale than I do. I buy my harness racing collectibles on eBay & I have a collection I am proud of, as you probably do.
The museum also serves as the American Standardbread Horse Hall of Fame.
Back in the day the Hambletonia Races were held in Goshen at the Good Time Park mile track. The track was founded in 1838, it is a National Historic Landmark & the oldest harness horse track still in use in the United States.
Stables still operate on the grounds and races are held annually. The popular museum opened during Goshen’s Hambletnian Stake Era in 1951,
Hall of Fame
The house that hold the Harness Racing Museum was originally built in 1913 as a horse stable. The collection is worth seeing if you are a racing fan.
Exhibits include more than 19,000 photos, 100’s of driver uniforms, 1800 painting, lithographs and sculptures, numerous sulkies and carts. There are also over four thousand books and videos on the sport of harness racing.
The Harness racing Hall of Fame is contained inside the museum.
The Hall of Fame inducts both horses and humans, owners, trainers, drivers.
The Top 3 Categories of inductees into the Harness Racing Hall of Fame are:
1) Living Persons
2) Living Horses
3) Immortals.
Winners from each category are inducted on what is called Hall of Fame day in Goshen, which the first Sunday in July, annually.
If you ever plan on visiting the Harness Racing Museum and Hall of Fame, it can’t get much better than the first Sunday in July!
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