By Grand Rapids Anonymous
thursday, march 20, 2025 at 10:49:00 p.m. edt
The greatest driver in the history of the sport, Dave Palone, was driving the #1 horse (the favorite) ahead of Hunter Myers' 74-1 longshot, during this fateful race. What media reported was, Palone's horse broke stride (which is not the harness driver's fault in 99% of the cases), causing the chain reaction to develop behind him.
The guilt must be agonizing for Palone, looking back on the race, in his mind.
Horses get injured, pull muscles, and have breathing problems or just lose their stride from running at top speed. It happens more often--by far in trotting races, rather than pacing races (which this was)--the two racing-style categories in harness racing.
As I said, I didn't watch the race live, so I don't know what led up to the accident taking place. The video replays have all been removed (permanently? I'd say so).
Just thought I'd add a couple details to the story.
--GRA
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