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45-1 shot wins at Pompano
June 01, 2006
U Toe The Bike ($93.80), the longest shot on the tote board at odds of 45-1, swept three-wide from sixth place on the final turn and closed with a burst of speed to nip Muscle Boss Vita at the wire to win the $8,250 Preferred II Handicap Trot by a nose at Pompano Park Harness Track Wednesday. Amazin
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Mare trots to Har mark
June 01, 2006
Racsan Jenny set a new track record and season's mark for older trotting mares on a half-mile racetrack with a 1:56.4 win Wednesday night at Harrington Raceway in a $13,500 winners over trot. The 6-year-old Program Speed mare set all the fractions and held pocket-sitting Orillia Bam Bam safe for
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Stellar NH Sweeps field
June 01, 2006
World champion Primetime Bobcat heads a spectacular field of eight top-class pacers headed to Rockingham Park on Saturday to contest the $120,000 New Hampshire Sweepstakes. In what will be one of the marquis pacing events on the North American harness racing schedule this year, the New Hampshire
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NJSS A Simple Task
June 01, 2006
Simple Task popped out of the pocket in the stretch and drew off to win the $23,100 first of four New Jersey Sire Stakes divisions for 3-year-old filly trotters Wednesday night at the Meadowlands. Driven and trained by Jimmy Takter, Simple Task bested Queen Serene by 1 3/4 lengths in 1:55.4. It
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Stonebridge Regal to return
June 01, 2006
North America Cup runner-up and Meadowlands Pace third-place finisher Stonebridge Regal is about two weeks away from qualifying, according to trainer Bob McIntosh. An 11-time winner in 21 starts last year at three after going unraced as a freshman, Stonebridge Regal began working his way back to the
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Hawthorne's big night set
June 01, 2006
The entries for Hawthorne’s second annual Night Of Champions have been released, and the 13-race program promises to provide memories that will last a lifetime. Early post time for the night’s festivities is 7 p.m. and Racing Secretary Billy Perkins gets the card rolling in grand style with the $
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An Andover Hall winner
June 01, 2006
World Trotting Derby winner Andover Hall had his first winner as a sire Wednesday as Adrian Chip, out of the stakes-placed mare My Favorite Chip, won a qualifier at Rosecroft in 2:05.1. With trainer Todd Schadel (half of the team behind Hambletonian winner Vivid Photo) in the sulky, Adrian Chip led
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Filly champs qualify
June 01, 2006
Reigning divisional champs My Little Dragon and Passionate Glide won their respective qualifiers Thursday morning at the Meadowlands, while Bob Heyden, the second highest-priced yearling trotter sold at auction in 2004 at a price of $290,000, also won a qualifier in his first appearance of 2006.
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Four Illinois casinos sue
June 01, 2006
Four Chicago-area casinos have sued to overturn a new state law signed by Gov. Rod Blagojevich that requires them to fork over tens of millions of dollars to the struggling horse-racing industry. The four riverboats--Empress Casino and Harrah's in Joliet, Hollywood Casino in Aurora and Grand Vict
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