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New track mark at Rosecroft
June 20, 2006
Mandas Mistyclover trotted her way to victory over a sloppy track in a non-betting $3,000 division of the Maryland Sire Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at Rosecroft Raceway Monday night, earning her second win of the year from four starts. The daughter of Dedicated Yankee, owned and bred by Donnie
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Trotting mark tied at London
June 20, 2006
It wasn't in the program's top trotting event on Monday in London, but the 1:57.2 effort by Homestead Dreamer in the 3rd race $12,800 Preferred-2 gave him a share of the track's trotting record along with Will Sikes and Windsong Braveheart. Homestead Dreamer was given a perfect pocket trip until
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Love's Open win no secret
June 20, 2006
Ken and Betsy Wood and Henry King's Mark's Secret Love ($18.80) scored a 1:52.2 triumph in the featured $18,500 Open Handicap Monday night at Harrington Raceway. The 5-year-old Artsplace gelding and driver Ross Wolfenden were a perfectly-positioned second behind pacesetting Chewy Gross (Jim Moran
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Torcello named Chester super
June 20, 2006
Mike Torcello has been hired as the track superintendent at Harrah’s Chester Casino & Racetrack, it has been announced by Harrah’s officials. Torcello will oversee the daily maintenance of Harrah’s Chester’s new, five-eighths mile, stone dust oval, which will host live racing for the first time on S
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Mypanmar preps for CPD
June 20, 2006
Luck of the draw has meant little to Mypanmar. In fact, unluck of the draw is more like it, according to trainer Virgil Morgan Jr., who will be sending the 5 year old into Saturday’s C$933,000 Canadian Pacing Derby at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto. Last year, Morgan saw Mypanmar draw post six in
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Great American Weekend at Goshen
June 20, 2006
How do you get to Goshen, New York? Take Exit 124 off Route 17 – and go back 150 years. The county seat of Orange County, Goshen is home to the annual Great American Weekend celebration on July 1 and July 2 (10 a.m. to 5 p.m.), including a craft show, exhibits, games, carnival food and are center
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Dead heat in Nfld Open
June 20, 2006
Former world champion Blastaway Sahbra shared the spoils in Monday night's $8,000 Open Trot at Northfield with former $3,000 claimer Lucca's Revenge, using a three-wide move around the final turn to match the fraction-setting leader at the wire in 2:00. Kurt Sugg trains and drives Blastaway Shabra,
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Decker wins Metamucil Mile
June 20, 2006
Monticello Raceway’s “Metamucil Mile” featured drivers, all members of AARP and all over the retirement age of 63 years. The seasoned senior citizens put on a delightful show and demonstrated that driving a harness horse is somewhat like riding a bicycle in that once you know how to do it you never
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Futter admits to injections
June 20, 2006
Horseman Larry Futter has been barred from participating at both Tioga Downs and Vernon Downs after he was observed illegally injecting drugs at a highway rest stop into the horse Civil Warrior Saturday, June 17. According to a release, Tioga Downs security officers observed Futter parking his ho
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Friskie favored in Jug future
June 20, 2006
North America Cup runner-up Feelin Friskie is the morning line favorite in the Little Brown Jug Future Wagering Pool, which will get underway at noon (EDT) on Thursday, June 22, at racetracks and on internet sites throughout North America and Europe. Feelin Friskie, 7-2 on the morning line, fini
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Kyle Bolon gets 1st win
June 20, 2006
Kyle Bolon, the son of the Meadows-based driver-trainer Rodney Bolon, picked up his first driving victory, in what was only his third qualifying drive, on Tuesday morning at The Meadows. The younger Bolon, who will turn 18 in six days, drove Spotty Too Hotty, a 4-year-old trotting mare co-owned by h
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