🏇 Track Weather
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Pins show the current temperature. The ring color is the weather outlook for racing (green good · amber watch · red risk). Gold pins are thoroughbred tracks, teal pins are harness tracks, and a green dot marks a track with racing scheduled today.
⏱️ Post-Time Forecast
The forecast at this track’s usual first post, and through the next four and a half hours of racing, for each of the next 6 days. Gold-outlined days are days this track usually races.
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🌧️ Track Condition Outlook
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An estimate from the past three days of rain (Open‑Meteo observations and forecast), today’s temperatures and the rain expected in the next 12 hours. It is not an official rating. The track’s officials set the surface condition and decide whether a race moves off the turf, is delayed or is cancelled.
🕐 Race Times US & Canada · first post, local time
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“2026 schedule” means the dates and days were published for the 2026–27 season; “Typical” is the track’s usual weekly pattern. Post times are the usual first race and can change for feature days, holidays and weather, so always confirm on the track’s official program before you go. Tracks not listed for a day are dark, off-season or haven’t published dates. Schedules researched October 2026.
⛅ Hourly Forecast & Radar
Next 24 hours
Gold-outlined hours fall in this track’s usual racing window.
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📘 How Weather Affects Racing
Dirt track conditions: Fast, Good, Muddy, Sloppy
A dirt surface is described by how much water it holds. Fast is dry and even. Good is slightly damp, a little slower. Muddy is soaked all the way through and slick. Sloppy has water standing on top of a firm base and is often quick, with splashing; horses that handle it well can improve. A sealed track has been packed with a roller before rain so water runs off, so it can look wet yet run fast. Heavy is a deep, tiring surface and rare on dirt. Harness tracks are scored the same way (Fast, Good, Sloppy, Muddy).
Turf course conditions: Firm, Good, Yielding, Soft, Heavy
Grass drains slowly, so turf is rated by firmness. Firm is hard and fast. Good has a little give. Yielding is softer and slower, with hooves sinking in. Soft is wet and tiring, and Heavy is waterlogged. After heavy rain, tracks often move races “off the turf” onto the dirt to protect the course and the horses, and may list some runners as also-eligibles or scratch them. Turf takes much longer to recover than dirt.
Lightning, delays and cancellations
Lightning is the most common reason to stop a card: tracks suspend racing, clear the grandstand and paddock and wait out the storm, often about 30 minutes after the last strike nearby. A card is more likely to be cancelled for standing water on the track, tornado or severe-thunderstorm warnings, flooding of the barn area, or unsafe heat and ice. Our “Delay risk” flag marks forecast thunderstorms in the racing window.
Wind
A headwind down the stretch slows the finish and a tailwind speeds it. Strong crosswinds can push sulkies and blow a horse off line. Harness races and quick-turning sprints on small half-mile ovals feel gusts most. Very strong gusts, roughly 35 mph and up, can delay or cancel racing, especially for equipment on the track such as starting gates.
Heat, humidity and cold
In extreme heat, tracks add cooling stations and misting, delay or move post times to the evening, and monitor horses closely. Combined temperature and humidity (“feels like” above about 95 °F) is flagged. In winter, frozen dirt and ice can close a track. Several northern tracks race on a specially prepared “inner track” with a thicker base and snow can mean racing is cancelled or moved. Harness drivers also face wind chill from speed.
How we estimate track condition
Dirt: heavy rain in the past few hours points to Sloppy, a half inch or more in 24 hours to Muddy, lighter or older rain to Good, and a dry spell to Fast. Turf: more rain pushes it from Firm through Good, Yielding and Soft to Heavy. A hard freeze overnight flags Frozen. It’s a guide from weather data only; it doesn’t know about the track’s drainage, sealing or maintenance.
✉️ Daily Racing Weather Email
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We never sell your data. See our Privacy Policy and Do Not Sell My Data form.
🔒 Privacy Policy
Effective date: October 16, 2026
Horse and Harness Racing Weather (“the site,” “we,” “us”) is operated by Planet Dynamic Networks LLC. This policy explains what information the site collects, how it’s used, and who else sees it. If you have questions, contact us at planetdynamicnetworks@outlook.com.
The short version
- This site does not use advertising trackers, cookies, or analytics. If that ever changes, we’ll update this policy first.
- Your searched or device location is used only to fetch weather data for you (and, if you allow location access, to open the track closest to you). It’s sent directly from your browser to the services listed below, not stored on our servers.
- If you subscribe to the daily email briefing, we store the profile information you provide (your name, email address, postal code, and region) so we can send it and know a bit about who we’re writing to.
- We do not sell your data. If you separately check the optional box agreeing to occasional emails from ad partners, we may share your information with those partners for that purpose only; you can withdraw that permission anytime on the Do Not Sell My Data form below, whether or not you ever checked it.
Location data
When you search a place, pick a track, or use “Near me,” your browser sends that location directly to public weather and mapping services (listed below) to fetch current conditions, radar, alerts and forecasts. We don’t log or keep your location history; each request happens live in your browser for that page view only. If you subscribe to the daily email, the location shown on the page at that moment is saved with your subscription so we know which forecast to send.
Daily email briefing & your profile (optional)
If you subscribe, the form asks for your name, email address, postal code, and region. We store this together as your subscriber profile. We use it to:
- Send your confirmation email and daily 6 AM local-time briefing
- Let you unsubscribe via the link included in every email
- Understand our subscriber base in aggregate so we can improve what we cover
Emails are sent from planetdynamicnetworks@outlook.com. You can unsubscribe at any time using the link in any briefing email; your address is removed from future daily sends immediately.
Ad partner emails (separate, optional consent)
The signup form has a second, separate checkbox asking whether it’s also OK to send you occasional emails from ad partners. This is never required to get the daily briefing. If you check it, we may share your subscriber profile with those partners for that purpose. If you leave it unchecked, or later change your mind, we do not share your data for this purpose. Use the Do Not Sell My Data form to withdraw it at any time.
We do not sell your data to anyone, under any circumstance.
Weekly internal report
Once a week, a table of current subscriber profiles is emailed internally to planetdynamicnetworks@outlook.com for record-keeping and to track opt-outs. This is an internal operational report, not a third-party disclosure.
Contact / email inquiries
If you email us through any “Contact Us” link, we receive whatever you choose to include in that email (your address, name, and message). We use it only to respond to your inquiry.
Cookies and tracking
This site does not use cookies, advertising trackers, or analytics services. We don’t build a profile of you or track you across other websites. Choices such as units are kept only in the page’s memory for your visit, and the install-as-app prompt remembers a dismissal in your browser’s local storage on your own device.
Links to track websites
The “All Tracks” section links to each track’s own website or a racing association’s site for official race programs. We don’t pass them any information about you. Once you open one, that site’s own privacy policy and terms apply.
Third-party services this site relies on
To provide weather and mapping features, your browser communicates directly with the public services below when you use the site. Like any website you visit, each of them can see your IP address and operates under its own privacy practices, which we encourage you to review if you have concerns:
| Service | Used for |
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| Open‑Meteo | Forecasts, current and recent weather, and place search |
| National Weather Service (NOAA/NWS) | US weather alerts |
| RainViewer | Radar imagery |
| Esri (ArcGIS) | Map tiles |
| BigDataCloud | Converting your coordinates to a place name |
| Google Fonts | The typefaces used on the page (Google can see your IP address when they load) |
| unpkg | Delivers the open-source Leaflet map library the maps run on |
Children’s privacy
This site is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, we’ll update the effective date above. Continued use of the site after a change means you accept the updated policy.
Contact
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🚫 Do Not Sell My Data
Effective date: October 2026
The short version: we don’t sell your data, ever, to anyone. What we do have is one optional setting (occasional emails from ad partners) that’s separate from the daily weather email and off by default unless you checked it. This form lets you turn that off (or confirm it’s already off), whether or not you’re a current subscriber.
What this covers
When you sign up for the daily email on Horse and Harness Racing Weather, the form asks for your name, email address, postal code, and region. There are two separate consent checkboxes on that form:
- Daily weather email: required to subscribe; this is the core service.
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What we never do
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Other ways to reach us about this
You can also email planetdynamicnetworks@outlook.com with the subject line “Do Not Sell” and the email address to opt out; we’ll apply it manually the same way. For the full picture of what we collect and why, see the Privacy Policy.