{"id":148384,"date":"2026-01-25T01:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T01:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/148384\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T01:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T01:01:08","slug":"harness-racing-returns-to-big-fresno-fair-after-a-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/148384\/","title":{"rendered":"Harness racing returns to Big Fresno Fair after a century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 The Big Fresno Fair announced that harness racing is coming back to the Big Fresno Fair for the first time in about a century.<\/p>\n<p>Harness racing is a form of horse racing featuring horses that pull lightweight two-wheeled carts called \u201csulkies\u201d, guided by skilled drivers rather than mounted jockeys.<\/p>\n<p>Guests will be able to bet and cheer on riders guiding their sulkies past the Tatarian Grandstand in December of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The California Horse Racing Board has approved 38 dates.<\/p>\n<p>[RELATED]  <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/daiso-opens-second-location-in-madera\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Daiso opens second location in Madera<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The primary racing days are Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Fresno fairgrounds will be designated California&#8217;s official home of live harness racing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 The Big Fresno Fair announced that harness racing is coming back to the Big&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-148384","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-fresno","9":"tag-fresno-headlines","10":"tag-fresno-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}