News Archive

Super Bowl Series starts
January 12, 2006
Series action got underway at the Meadowlands on a rainy Wednesday night with five divisions of the Super Bowl for 4-year-old trotters. The fastest winners of the first leg were Bancroft Hall and Elvis Cole, who both clocked in at 1:56.4. Elvis Cole, a gelded son of Lindy Lane, won by a head over
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You're Next--again
January 12, 2006
You're Next scored his fifth straight victory at Pompano Park Wednesday night, leading from start to finish in the second race trot. Driven by Wally Hennessey, You're Next started from post six and left right out of the gate, beating out Claytons Valleylad (Wayne Henry) to the opening quarter mil
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Solveig wins at Dover
January 12, 2006
Solveig was the 2004 Dan Patch Award-winning 2-year-old filly trotter for trainer Jimmy Takter, but the daughter of Yankee Glide struggled through sickness her sophomore season in 2005, winning just once in 14 starts. Now four, Solveig got her 2006 campaign off on the right note when she captured a
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Ky. tax bill introduced
January 12, 2006
A bill has been introduced in the Kentucky legislature that would eliminate the sales tax on horses purchased in the state. The bill, introduced by a pair of Kentucky legislators, calls for the elimination of the six percent tax on horses claimed at Kentucky racetracks, as well as the tax on horses
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Trail ride operator honored
January 12, 2006
The Standardbred Retirement Foundation has announced Janice Kay Lea, owner of Wilderness Village Trail Rides in Alberta, Canada, as the winner of its 2006 Humanity Award. The 30-year-old Lea currently cares for 26 retired Standardbreds that she nursed back to health and trained to second careers
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