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3YO winners at Big M
May 04, 2006
The 3-year-olds Badland�s Legacy, Wellesley Hall, Wiggle Out Of This and Bell Bottom Pans scored their first career wins at the Meadowlands Wednesday night. Badland�s Legacy, a filly by Badlands Hanover out of the unraced Die Laughing mare Sugarland Express, won by 2 � lengths in 1:53.2 after sta
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Two in a row at Pompano
May 04, 2006
Tweedle Dum, fresh off his all-age track equaling performance of the previous week, had little trouble once again wiring the field in 1:54.3 in the $9,000 Preferred-Handicap Trot Wednesday night at Pompano Park. There were three quick lead changes by the opening quarter mile in :27.4 as driver Wa
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Hawthorne opens Saturday
May 04, 2006
Chicago Harness Racing returns to the in-town track on Saturday, May 6, as Hawthorne Race Course opens its37-night meet. Hawthorne will race six nights a week with a 7:20 p.m. post Tuesday through Saturday and a 6:30 p.m. post on Sundays and on opening night. To highlight the spring meeting, Hawt
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Record at Harrington
May 04, 2006
For the third consecutive night at Harrington Raceway, a track record was broken as 4-year-old trotter Nathan My Boy (Tony Morgan) set a new mark of 1:57.1 in the featured $13,500 winners-over trot on the First State's half-mile racetrack Wednesday. Owned by Brooks Stables, Fred Hertrich III and
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Race dates cut in Ontario
May 04, 2006
Great Canadian Gaming Corporation (GCGC) announced Thursday that it will cut race dates at Flamboro Downs and Georgian Downs in response to decreased wagering at both Ontario tracks. In a 24-page business plan released by the GCGC, data shows that wagering has fallen 14 percent at Flamboro since
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All-star qualies at Big M
May 04, 2006
The Meadowlands hosted 14 qualifiers Thursday morning featuring a bevy of 2005 stars making their return to the track, most notably Boulder Creek and Cabrini Hanover. In the first qualifier, Wherley stepped off a 1:58.4 mile, finishing fourth. Last year, the 3-year-old filly by Dream Vacation too
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Connor OK after spill
May 04, 2006
Charles Connor Jr. suffered some bumps and bruises in a spill during qualifiers on Thursday morning at the Meadowlands. Connor, 50, of Durhamville, N.Y., was driving Yankee Slammer in the 11th race when his horse grabbed a boot and went down. "The horse grabbed a bell boot and fell down while
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