News Archive

Hambo champ retires
March 01, 2005
Scarlet Knight, the son of Pine Chip who returned to the United States as a 3 year old and won the 2001 Hambletonian, the first horse to return from abroad to win a major stake, has been retired by trainer and owner Stefan Melander. A $17,000 yearling purchase by Melander, Scarlet Knight went on
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AA Theory to Indiana
March 01, 2005
Meadowlands Pace winner Allamerican Theory has been retired and will head to stallion duty at Schwartz Boarding Farm in Indiana. The 5-year-old son of Jenna's Beach Boy made his final start Feb. 23 at the Meadowlands. "He was one of the most hard-luck horses that has ever been around," trainer De
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Ky Senate passes tax plan
March 01, 2005
The Kentucky State Senate passed Gov. Ernie Fletcher's tax modernization bill by a vote of 37-0 late Monday night. The bill includes two horse industry provisions, one of which would direct tax money to breed incentive programs. The bill will now go into Conference Committee where disagreements o
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Announcer Miller dies
March 01, 2005
George Miller, the announcer at Saratoga Harness Raceway for 24 years from 1958 through 1981, died Friday, Feb. 25, at the age of 89. Mr. Miller joined the publicity department at Saratoga in 1947, later becoming the announcer at Vernon Downs in 1995, when he called Adios Harry's world-record 1:5
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