News Archive

Chicago half-miler opens
January 11, 2006
After a one-week delay due to the horsemen's strike, Maywood Park begins its 60th consecutive season Thursday night. Since 1946 Maywood Park has conducted a live racing meet, the longest in the State of Illinois Standardbred history. Post time at Maywood has been moved up to 7:20 p.m. (CST) each
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Mom Shake Away wins
January 11, 2006
Shake Away, who was away from the races for nearly two years as she was bred and subsequently delivered a foal, put away seven rivals to win the $24,000 Open Handicap Pace for mares at Dover Downs Tuesday in a career-best 1:51. The hiatus from racing has not not proved to be a deterrent to Shake
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Maine vote falls short
January 11, 2006
Maine's House on Tuesday failed to override Governor John Baldacci's veto of a bill that would have called for a statewide referendum on a new racino in the state, the Associated Press reported. The vote, 77-63, was well short of the two-thirds majority needed to send the matter to the Senate.
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Morrill shuffles to Buffalo
January 11, 2006
Jim Morrill Jr. has told the Buffalo News that rumors of his return to the Meadowlands after dominating the driving ranks at Batavia Downs are unfounded, and that he plans to stay in New York and also compete at Buffalo Raceway. After making the move last year to Batavia, Morrill won 128 times in
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Oosting sweep on ice
January 11, 2006
Trotters took center stage on Tuesday night at Balmoral Park as 15 went postward in a pair of divisions in the first leg of the Champion On Ice Series. In the opening split Busto made it look easy as he trotted to a 2 ¼-length victory in 2:00.4 over a track rated as "good." Driven by Mike Oostin
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Car accident for D'Altruis
January 11, 2006
A story in Wednesday's Courier News in New Jersey reports that Standardbred owner Thomas D'Altrui Sr., 86, apparently had his foot slip off the brake and hit the gas pedal as he was parking his car in front of his DI Farm's office in Hillsborough Jan. 5, sending it crashing through the wall and trap
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Holton into Ohio Hall
January 11, 2006
Terry Holton has been selected as the 32nd inductee into the Ohio Harness Racing Hall of Fame in balloting of the Ohio Chapter of the United States Harness Writers Association. Holton's selection will be announced at the Ohio Harness Horsemen/U.S. Trotting Association District One banquet on Saturda
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