• Race Form - This link will get you a PDF version of the 2011 application
   
• Course Map - Aerial view of the property with course notations and directions.
  The race will start on the 1 mile track and run counter clockwise around then transition near start / finish line
  to the half mile track and run clockwise (so as not to cross each other), back on the 1 mile track counter clockwise
  then to the transition clockwise again on the half mile and directly to the finish the 1 mile track for 3.1 miles
   
• Wikipedia - A look at "Harness Horse Capitol" of Georgia
   
• Google Maps - click, copy & paste in destination (GA-11 S/GA-112 S/S Jackson St/US-129 S)

       Directions: The Lawrence L. Bennett Harness Horse Training Facility is located in Hawkinsville, Georgia
                        19 miles off Interstate I-75, south Exit 135 at Perry, Georgia. Travel the Larry Walker Parkway,
                        go pass the Perry Georgia Ag. Center on your right. After a few miles the Larry Walker Parkway
                        turns into Golden Isles Parkway (US 341). Travel until you come to Hawkinsville.
                        Go through 1 stop light, and then you will come to a Stop sign. Turn left on to Broad Street (also US341)
                        go to the third stop light, just before McDonalds, turn right onto Jackson street, south( also Hwy I29).
                        Travel about 1-1/2 miles to Fire Tower Road, the Arena and training facility is on your right.
                       
 

• Lawrence L. Bennett Training Facility - Located in Georgia's Magnolia Midlands, Hawkinsville
  is known as the "Harness Horse Capitol" of Georgia and has been a winter home for harness horse
  training since 1920, serving horsemen from northern United States and Canada. Hawkinsville in
  Pulaski County began the affair with harness racing in 1894, when Pulaski County Fair Association
  held their first official harness races. They have raced once a year ever since around the first of April,
  the weather in Hawkinsville seldom freezes, it is bright and sunny most of the time, making ideal
  conditions for training.

• Budget Inn - 509 Broad Street, Hawkinsville, GA 31036
  • 877-747-8713
     
• Best Western - 100 Buckan Drive Hawkinsville, GA 31036
  • 478-783-1300
     
• America's Best Inn  114 North Warren Street, Hawkinsville, GA 31036
  • 478-783-2914
     

• Road ID - Provide Race Number and discount offers to all runners.
   

• Not enough running?... chase some points in Cordele (about 1/2 hour away)

  
  RECOGNIZING 10,010 CONSECUTIVE DAYS OF RUNNING
  Blackshear Trail School, 1001 Blackshear Rd - CORDELE 31015 
  FIRST 5K - 10:00 A.M., QUARTER MILE - 10:15 A.M., SECOND 5K - 10:45 A.M., THIRD 5K - 11:30 A.M.
  BENNY WADE: 229-273-2981 ranreb@planttel.net 
  or: bennywade@hughes.net 
   RUN & SEE GEORGIA GRAND PRIX SERIES    Race Application
   
• Race Director
  Tom Dawson - tom@harnessfestival5k.com 
  P.O. Box 633 Hawkinsville, GA 31036
  478-783-4001