Bulldog Hanover wins USHWA Stan Bergstein Proximity Award

The 4-year-old pacer Bulldog Hanover, who posted the fastest time ever for a mile this summer when he won in 1:45.4 while capturing the imagination of all both within and outside the harness sport, has been selected as the winner of the 2022 Stan Bergstein Proximity Award, the highest honor voted on solely by the members of the United States Harness Writers Association, the leading organization for harness racing communicators.

Bulldog Hanover becomes only the third horse to win the award, following Rambling Willie in 1984 and Foiled Again in 2018. Both of those veterans etched their names into history with a decade or more of record-setting racetrack achievement; while a very good horse at two and three, Bulldog Hanover and his record 2022 campaign provided the incandescence that enabled the horse to receive this highest accolade.