Tag Archives: Carmine Abbatiello
Mike LaChance
Mike LaChance (Harness racing. Born, St. Augustin, P.Q., Dec. 12, 1950.) Coming from a small cattle farm in Quebec, Michel Lachance became a leading driver at Yonkers, Roosevelt, and the Meadowlands racetracks. Lachance arrived in New York in 1982 and soon supplanted Carmine Abbatiello as the king of the New York half-mile tracks. He erased Abbatiello’s […]
Carmine Abbatiello
Carmine Abbatiello (Harness racing. Born, Staten Island, NY, May 23, 1936.) Harness racing’s second winningest all-time driver, Carmine Abbatiello won his 7,000th race on October 23, 1990, at Yonkers Raceway with a horse appropriately named “Right on Course.” Abbatiello, a graduate of Staten Island’s Port Richmond High, went directly from high school into harness racing […]
