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Welcome to the Harness racing task force of WikiProject Horse racing.

Harness racing worldwide and harness racing horse breeds, including but not limited to:

• Harness racing
• Standardbreds
• Coldblood trotters
• Ban'ei

• Montanabw^(talk)
• White Arabian Filly ^Neigh
• User:WilliamJE
• User:Tigerboy1966
• User:Jlvsclrk
• User talk:Mateusz K
• User:Andrew Chapman 1975

• Add Standardbred module to all horse "biography" infoboxes where relevant
• Tagging all harness racing article talk page project boxes with new parameter: |harness=yes as shown:

((WikiProject Horse racing|class=|importance=|harness=yes))

To produce:

Horse racing NA‑class

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Drivers:

• Carmine Abbatiello
• William Popfinger
• Frank Popfinger
• Joe Marsh Jr.
• Buddy Gilmour
• Ted Taylor (harness racing)
• Bea Farber
• Del Insko
• Glen Garnsey
• George Sholty
• Peter Haughton
• Vernon Dancer
• Ken McNutt
• Real Cormier

Events:

• An article on the 1970s superfecta scandal could be used. Some of the drivers listed above were indicted.

Horses:

• Annual winners of the Hambletonian Stakes and the Little Brown Jug (horse race)

Project scope includes horses, people, tracks, equipment, and so on. Discussion at talk whether project tagging is appropriate for things that are related to both harness and flat racing (such as racetracks that offer both types of races, etc.)

Project tagging: Add the parameter |harness=yes to ((WikiProject Horse racing))

Userbox

• See ((User Harness racing))

This user is a member of the Harness racing task force

This module is intended to expand Template:Infobox racehorse to include the extra parameters required for a Standardbred:

• Gait
• Driver
• Mile record
• Groom

Include this module in a Standardbred racehorse article by adding it within the Template:Infobox racehorse using its |module= parameter, like this:

Dan Patch
Dan Patch in harness
Breed	Standardbred
Gait	Pace
Sire	Joe Patchen
Grandsire	Patchen Wilkes
Dam	Zelica
Damsire	Wilkesberry
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	April 29, 1896
Died	July 11, 1916
Country	United States
Color	Dark bay
Breeder	Daniel Messner, Jr.
Owner	Daniel Messner, Jr. Manley E. Sturges (1902) Marion Willis Savage (1902-1916)
Record	undefeated
Driver	John Wattles (1900) Myron McHenry (1901-1903) Harry Hersey (1904-1909)
Mile record	1:551⁄4 unofficially 1:55
Honors
Harness Racing Hall of Fame (1953) Hall of Fame Immortal

((Infobox racehorse

After the "breed parameter:
...
| module1 = ((Infoboxmodule Standardbred  <!--gait will only appear after breed if "module1" is specified-->
  | gait = [[Pace (horse gait)|Pace]]	
  ))
...

| module = ((Infoboxmodule Standardbred
  | driver      = driver goes here
  | mile_record = mile record goes here
  | groom       = groom goes here
  ))

...

...

))