News Archive

Vivid Photo to start at Rcr
June 02, 2006
2005 Hambletonian winner Vivid Photo drew post position two in the "Elliot in the Morning/DC 101" Invitational Trot worth $15,000 at Rosecroft Raceway on Monday, June 5, and will open on the board as the 8-5 early choice. Trained and driven by Roger Hammer, the 4-year-old gelded son of SJ's Photo
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Bono Bests back
June 02, 2006
Bono Bests enjoyed a well-deserved rest since competing in the Berry’s Creek at the Meadowlands May 6, and trainer Ivan Sugg has entered the bay to contest the first of three $100,000 divisions of the Burlington Stakes Saturday at Woodbine. “I wanted to give him a layoff before the North America
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Sinister Hall enters stakes
June 02, 2006
According to trainer Rene Laarman, Sinister Hall is in good form heading into the first of Saturday’s three $100,000 Burlington Stakes divisions after a forgettable race at Woodbine on May 23. “He’s shown improvement every start, but his last start is the type that you’d just wipe off the page; i
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Filly trotter wins at Meadows
June 02, 2006
World champion trotter Varenne sired his first North American winner Thursday night at The Meadows as Southwind Nova scored a 2:07.2 victory in a $300 baby race. The 2-year-old filly Southwind Nova is out of the Lindy Lane mare New York To Paris, who competed in Pennsylvania Sire Stakes contests at
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Ideal News to retire
June 02, 2006
Trainer Joe Holloway on Thursday said Ideal News has been retired and is on her way to Brittany Farms to become a broodmare. Ideal News swept last year’s Blossom Series and won the Miss New Jersey before coming down with pneumonia prior to the Fan Hanover final. Holloway said Ideal News nearly di
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Pick your Jug fantasy stable
June 02, 2006
The $50,000 North America Cup eliminations, set for Saturday, June 10, are the first scheduled races in the Little Brown Jug Fantasy Stable Contest. You must select five horses from your fantasy stable, plus two drivers and two trainers, by 11:59 p.m., Sunday, June 4. Just go to www.jugbarn.com to
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Artistic Fella in NJSS
June 02, 2006
Artistic Fella looks for his fifth straight win Saturday night as he continues on the path to the $1 million Meadowlands Pace for trainer Steve Elliott and owner Joseph Alborano. The multiple stakes winner is rated as the prohibitive 4-5 morning line favorite from post four in the evening's secon
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Peaceful Way qualifies
June 02, 2006
Peaceful Way successfully qualified in 1:53.4 at Mohawk Friday morning, coming home in :27.3 with Trevor Ritchie aboard. The 5-year-old mare by Angus Hall made a break in her first qualifier on May 23. Ritchie told Standardbred Canada it was due to dirt hitting her in the face. Peaceful Way has e
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Loyal Opposition: a Q&A
June 02, 2006
The undisputed queen of Illinois racing, the 6-year-old mare Loyal Opposition, is widely regarded as one of the top pacing females of her generation. Loyal Opposition’s illustrious career began at Hawthorne on June 27th, 2002, as the Erv Miller trainee won her first pari-mutuel start in leg one
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Napolitano handed 9 months
June 02, 2006
Pocono Downs’ leading horseman George Napolitano Jr. has received an aggregate suspension of 270 days and fined $4,500 for three positive tests in early April at that racetrack. Napolitano, who turned 40 on May 25, is the top driver at the track with 90 victories and his 46 wins as a trainer also le
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Pink Ribbons fifth
June 02, 2006
Pink Ribbons, winner of $143,410 at 2 and 3, finished fifth in her 4-year-old debut over a "sloppy" track Friday night at The Meadows in a mile timed in 1:58.1. The mare by Mr Vic sat fourth throughout the mile, then came first-over before the three quarters. She soon faded as pacesetter I'm Just
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