North American Harness Update | 2017 Zweig Edition

Host Ray Cotolo is joined by Mike Pribozie and Rod Allums Jr. as they cover the Dr. Harry Zweig Memorial from Vernon Downs, including the $135,000 final for the fillies and the $320,000 open final. Alongside the Zweig, the three will have coverage of the final leg for the World Driving Championship, which is being contested at Charlottetown Driving Park.

The three also take requests on races to handicap for the weekend and offer an impromptu analysis live on the air. Requests were sent via Twitter or Facebook.

North American Harness Update airs Friday from 9-11 p.m. (EDT) on SRN One and can be accessed by archive via the YouTube page or for download here the day after it airs.

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North American Harness Update | 2017 Dan Patch Edition

Host Ray Cotolo is joined by Mike Pribozie and Rod Allums Jr. as they cover the $325,000 Dan Patch Stakes from Hoosier Park on Friday night and preview the $300,000 Carl Milstein Memorial and the $50,000 Myron Charna Invitational at Northfield Park on Saturday, August 12. Alongside previewing this weekend’s stakes, the three will cover the Late Pick 4 from Mohawk Racetrack on Friday night.

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North American Harness Update | 2017 Hambletonian Edition

Host Ray Cotolo will be joined by Mike Pribozie and Rod Allums Jr. as they preview the Hambletonian Day card at the Meadowlands on Saturday, August 5. Alongside handicapping the stakes action on the card, the three will have on trainers John Butenschoen and Brian Brown, and drivers Tim Tetrick, Scott Zeron, and Marcus Miller to get a closer look into their contenders on the Saturday program.

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North American Harness Update June 23 Show Schedule

The following is based on a true story. Some of the names have been changed to protect the identities of the deceased. Viewer discretion is advised, but not mandatory, or really required at all.

The schedule for the Internet’s favorite harness racing handicapping show, North American Harness Update, is set for the June 23, 2017 show.

Host Ray Cotolo will be joined by Mike Pribozie and Rod Allums Jr. to provide coverage of the Late Pick 4 at the Meadowlands, which carries and often collects more than the $50,000 guaranteed pool, for Friday night.

The trio will offer insight into the many eliminations at Pocono Downs for Saturday, June 24 as the track readies for its Sun Stakes Saturday program. Eliminations for the Max Hempt Memorial, James Lynch Memorial, Earl Beal Jr. Memorial, and the Ben Franklin will be contested on Saturday.

North American Harness Update airs Fridays from 9-11pm (EDT) on SRN One, and can be accessed by archive via the YouTube page or for download here the day after it airs.

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Official Schedule: May 19, 2017 Show

There comes a time in every man's life when he must see what time it is, because he's afraid he'll miss North American Harness Update!

Join Ray Cotolo (@RayCotolo) and resident-hero Mike Pribozie (@whorseplayer) as they cover the Late Pick 4 from the Meadowlands and preview three divisions of the $146,628 Pennsylvania Sires Stakes at The Meadows, going on Saturday, May 20, and the $176,000 Confederation Cup at Flamboro Downs, which goes on Sunday, May 21.

Aside from that, they will provide their patented riveting commentary on all things horses, not horses, and horses that are not horses.

Listen to the harness racing discussion with this link. You can also tweet in to the show through our Twitter account, as well as post on our Facebook page to be a part of the conversation.

Official Schedule: May 5, 2017 Show

Call off all search parties, surprise parties, bachelor parties, sweet sixteens, sweet eighteens, and sweet fourty-sevens because: We. Are. Back!

Join Ray Cotolo (@RayCotolo) and Mike Pribozie (@whorseplayer) as they demonstrate the goings of a standard American marriage.

Then, in harness racing, they will cover the Late Pick 4 at the Meadowlands.

"I think it will pay," Mike said earlier this afternoon.

Also on tap are previews for, at Freehold Raceway, the $73,700 Lady Suffolk and the $143,737 Dexter Cup along with, at the Meadowlands, the $150,000 opening prelim of the Graduate Series and the $200,000 Arthur J. Cutler Memorial, all of which is scheduled to go on Saturday, May 6. On Sunday, May 7, Miami Valley hosts the $86,400 Miami Valley Distaff and then on Monday, May 8, they contest the $100,000 Chip Noble Memorial.

Ray and Mike will have thoughts, emotions, and opinions on all of these!

Aside from that, they will provide their patented riveting commentary on all things horses, not horses, and horses that are not horses.

Listen to the harness racing discussion with this link. You can also tweet in to the show through our Twitter account, as well as post on our Facebook page to be a part of the conversation.

Official Schedule: April 21, 2017 Show

Wait! Don't worry, we're here. Just fashionably late, by the way, do these pants make my head look big?

Great! We have Ray Cotolo (@RayCotolo) and Mike Pribozie (@whorseplayer) leading the show this week, discussing the Late Pick 4 from the Meadowlands as well as the first major stakes finals of 2017, which go at Yonkers Raceway on Saturday, April 22. These include the $75,000 Blue Chip Matchmaker Consolation, $310,600 Blue Chip Matchmaker Final, $100,000 George Morton Levy Consolation, and the $529,000 George Morton Levy Final.

Aside from that, they will provide their patented riveting commentary on all things horses, not horses, and horses that are not horses.

Listen to the harness racing discussion with this link. You can also tweet in to the show through our Twitter account, as well as post on our Facebook page to be a part of the conversation.

Official Schedule: April 14, 2017 Show

You ever wonder how all of this came to be? What events culminated into the genesis of our observable universe?

Me neither, and that's because we have horses to talk about!

Join Ray Cotolo (@RayCotolo) and Mike Pribozie (@whorseplayer) as they preview the Late Pick 4 from the Meadowlands and analyze the last prelim of the George Morton Levy Series.

Aside from that, they will provide their patented riveting commentary on all things horses, not horses, and horses that are not horses.

Listen to the harness racing discussion with this link. You can also tweet in to the show through our Twitter account, as well as post on our Facebook page to be a part of the conversation.

Official Schedule: April 7, 2017 Show

Remember that time we did that stuff with racing and stuff?

Yeah, yeah, yeah! And you were there--oh! And Ray Cotolo (@RayCotolo) was there. And--oh! Mike Pribozie (@whorseplayer) was also there!

Those were good times, talking the Late Pick 4 from the Meadowlands and those darndid George Morton Levy prelims. Ah, yes, good times.

I miss those times.

...

Aside from that, they will provide their patented riveting commentary on all things horses, not horses, and horses that are not horses.

Listen to the harness racing discussion with this link. You can also tweet in to the show through our Twitter account, as well as post on our Facebook page to be a part of the conversation.

Official Schedule: March 31, 2017 Show

LOOK! Descending from the heavens!

It's a bird!

No, oh no! Is it a plane?

Oh my! It's Ray Cotolo (@RayCotolo)! What was he doing in heaven?

"Now's the time you ask me if it hurt," he proclaimed to the masses.

"What?" They said in unison.

"You know, when I fell from heaven?"

And no one laughed.

"Wait!" he panicked. "I have harness racing tips!"

Suddenly, the crowds returned by the millions, emerging from them Mike Pribozie (@whorseplayer), who Ray selected to stand alongside him as he preached to the people below.

"Tonight! We have coverage of the Live Pick 4 from the Meadowlands, as well as a preview for round three of the George Morton Levy Series. I promise at least three winners.

"Maybe one will be you," he pointed to a man wearing a Blink-182 t-shirt.

"Or maybe you," he pointed to a woman whose hair was molded into the shape of Mount Vesuvius.

"But definitely not you," he pointed to a different man wearing a Blink-182 t-shirt.

A clap multiplied, other claps were birthed from older claps to start clap families within clap suburbs. Cheers flooded the soundsphere as a tsunami does the Japanese shoreline.

"Focus, Ray!" Mike exclaimed. "Get out of your own head."

Ray sat in sadness.

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Aside from that, they will provide their patented riveting commentary on all things horses, not horses, and horses that are not horses.

Listen to the harness racing discussion with this link. You can also tweet in to the show through our Twitter account, as well as post on our Facebook page to be a part of the conversation.

Official Schedule: March 24, 2017 Show

Good evening, boys and girls. Let's paint a picture tonight.

Join our happy accidents Ray Cotolo (@RayCotolo) and Mike Pribozie (@whorseplayers) as they paint the town with bushes, including coverage of the Late Pick 4 from the Meadowlands and a preview of round two of the George Morton Levy Series.

Aside from that, they will provide their patented riveting commentary on all things horses, not horses, and horses that are not horses.

Listen to the harness racing discussion with this link. You can also tweet in to the show through our Twitter account, as well as post on our Facebook page to be a part of the conversation.

Official Schedule: March 17, 2017 Show

We're live from an hour in the future!

Join Ray Cotolo (@RayCotolo), Mike Pribozie (@whorseplayer), and Noone Else as they join in for the two hour spectacular fun fest with horses! This week, they will provide coverage for the Late Pick 4 from the Meadowlands, as well as a recap for round one of the Blue Chip Matchmaker series and a preview of the opening preliminaries for the George Morton Levy Series, which go at Yonkers Raceway on Saturday, March 18.

Aside from that, they will provide their patented riveting commentary on all things horses, not horses, and horses that are not horses.

Listen to the harness racing discussion with this link. You can also tweet in to the show through our Twitter account, as well as post on our Facebook page to be a part of the conversation.

Official Schedule: March 10, 2017 Show

We didn't forget that we're on the air this week!

No way!

Not a chance!

Ray Cotolo (@RayCotolo) and Mike Pribozie (@whorseplayer) will have live coverage of the Late Pick 4 from the Meadowlands, and will be dissecting the Mandatory Jackpot Hi-5 Payout, which can carry a pool of $2,500,000, for Saturday's last race from Woodbine Racetrack.

Aside from that, they will provide their patented riveting commentary on all things horses, not horses, and horses that are not horses.

Listen to the harness racing discussion with this link. You can also tweet in to the show through our Twitter account, as well as post on our Facebook page to be a part of the conversation.

Official Schedule: March 3, 2017 Show

Harness racing harness racing HARNESS RACING!

Ray Cotolo (@RayCotolo) and Mike Pribozie (@whorseplayer) will do some stuff and things this evening, mostly things, but a lot of stuff.

Was that not clear?

The two will provide coverage of the Late Pick 4 from the Meadowlands, and will handicap live their featured race of the week. And, of course, Ray Cotolo's signature banter.

Oh, and Kyle Burton (@RacetrackKyle) is back on the show.

Aside from that, they will provide their patented riveting commentary on all things horses, not horses, and horses that are not horses.

Listen to the harness racing discussion with this link. You can also tweet in to the show through our Twitter account, as well as post on our Facebook page to be a part of the conversation.

Official Schedule: February 24, 2017 Show

(Enter JIM, JEFF's long-lost friend. JEFF is listening to NORTH AMERICAN HARNESS UPDATE)

JIM

Oh, wow, is that you, Jeff?

You look a lot different since

I last saw you. Watchu' listening

to?

JEFF

Jim! Oh, man, how long's it been?! 

Not long enough, ha ha ha!

(JEFF nudges JIM's arm)

JIM

But, what are you listening to, Jeff?

JEFF
What? I can't hear you.

(JIM rips off JEFF's headphones)

JIM

(Shouts) WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO?

JEFF

Oh, I was listening to this show called

North American Harness Update.

JIM

Why? That doesn't sound interesting.

JEFF
Oh, you've never listened to the show!

It's these two guys, Ray Cotolo, and Mike

Pribozie. Currently they're covering

the Late Pick 4 from the Meadowlands 

before talking about their featured

race of the week!

JIM

Jeff, I know it's been awhile, but I have

no idea what the heck you're talking about.

JEFF

You don't have to! This Ray Cotolo kid, 

his Twitter is @RayCotolo, is fantastic!

I was never interested in harness racing

until I listened to him. He's so obscure

that I can't help but listen to his every

thought.

JIM

I mean, Jeff, I was hoping we could catch

up, seeing as it's been so long since we

last saw each other. 

JEFF

But you can listen to the show at 

http://player.radioloyalty.com/station/8666.html

starting at 9pmET. Trust me, you'll love it.

Now, it was nice seeing you, but I gotta'

hear this bit Ray's currently doing. He's

such a nut!

(JEFF leaves)

JIM

(somberly) Goodbye, Jeff.

Official Schedule: February 17, 2017 Show

We get it. You've ground your way through the work week, dealing with Janice from accounting's garbage and piles upon piles of TPS reports, never once questioning "What does TPS stand for, anyway?" because the workload clouded your natural curiosity and creativity.

Don't worry, we're here for you.

Light up the fireplace, crack open a beer, slip off your shoes, loosen the tie, recline to infinity and enjoy our show. Ray Cotolo (@RayCotolo) and Mike Pribozie (@whorseplayer) will provide enthralling coverage of the Late Pick 4 from the Meadowlands as they attempt to cash more money than any Goldman or Sach ever could. The two will also preview two $30,000 stake events from Fraser Downs, which goes on Friday, February 17. Along with these analyses, Ray and Mike will handicap live their featured race of the week.

Aside from that, they will provide their patented riveting commentary on all things horses, not horses, and horses that are not horses.

Listen to the harness racing discussion with this link. You can also tweet in to the show through our Twitter account, as well as post on our Facebook page to be a part of the conversation.

Official Schedule: February 10, 2017 Show

Last week, the common cold knocked radio phenomenon Ray Cotolo off the airwaves.

This week, Ray Cotolo is going to knock the airwaves out of the common cold.

Join Ray Cotolo (@RayCotolo) and Mike Pribozie (@whorseplayer) as they make their comeback to the Internet radioscape and preview the Late Pick 4 from the Meadowlands, as well as their Featured Race of the Week. Also scheduled for analysis are two stakes events going at Fraser Downs on Friday, February 10.

Aside from that, they will provide their patented riveting commentary on all things horses, not horses, and horses that are not horses.

Listen to the harness racing discussion with this link. You can also tweet in to the show through our Twitter account, as well as post on our Facebook page to be a part of the conversation.

North American Harness Update IS NOT LIVE February 3, 2017

While host Ray Cotolo (@RayCotolo) recovers from a respiratory cold, this week's live edition of North American Harness Update has been cancelled. However, a previous live episode will occupy the time slot, so you can hear how Ray sounds when he's healthy! (And Mike, too)

You can listen to the repeat starting at 9pmET with this link.

Official Schedule: January 27, 2017 Show

Join Ray Cotolo (@RayCotolo) and Mike Pribozie (@whorseplayer) as they dissect the harness specimens competing this weekend. They will cover the Late Pick 4 from the Meadowlands, and will handicap live the Featured Race of the Week.

Aside from that, they will provide their patented riveting commentary on all things horses, not horses, and horses that are not horses.

Listen to the harness racing discussion with this link. You can also tweet in to the show through our Twitter account, as well as post on our Facebook page to be a part of the conversation.

Official Schedule: January 20, 2017 Show

WE HAVE SOME MAJOR NEWS!

BREAKING! BREAKING!

BARACK OBAMA WILL... unfortunately not be on our show this week. He never returned our calls.

However, we still have Ray Cotolo (@RayCotolo) and Mike Pribozie (@whorseplayer), but it's not like either of them were President of the United States.

The two will be joined by past NAHUian Kyle Burton (@RacetrackKyle) as they cover the Late Pick 4 from the Meadowlands, and handicap live their Feature Race of the Week.

Aside from that, they will provide their patented riveting commentary on all things horses, not horses, and horses that are not horses.

Listen to the harness racing discussion with this link. You can also tweet in to the show through our Twitter account, as well as post on our Facebook page to be a part of the conversation.

Official Schedule: January 13, 2017 Show

It's the most unlucky day of the year, Friday the 13th... if you're a chump!

Tune in for a dechumpifying ritual at 9pmET when Ray Cotolo (@RayCotolo) and Mike Pribozie (@whorseplayer) jazz up the harness racing experience.

Ray and Mike will jazz up the Late Pick 4 at the Meadowlands, and will handicap live their Feature Race of the Week. Aside from that, they will provide their patented riveting commentary on all things horses, not horses, and horses that are not horses.

Listen to the harness racing discussion with this link. You can also tweet in to the show through our Twitter account, as well as post on our Facebook page to be a part of the conversation.

Official Schedule: 2017 Season Premiere

We made it, folks! We made it another year where the Y2K bug failed to initiate the apocalypse!

Since we all lived, spend your extra time in humanity with us!

Join Ray Cotolo (@RayCotolo) and THE Michael J. Pribozie (@whorseplayer) as they cover the Late Pick 4 from the Meadowlands and discuss the Featured Race of the Week LIVE!

We also have goofs, gags, and fun for the whole family!!!!

Listen to the harness racing discussion with this link. You can also tweet in to the show through our Twitter account, as well as post on our Facebook page to be a part of the conversation.