News Archive

Driver is 53rd to 5,000
June 28, 2006
Driver Andy Miller won his 5,000th career race Tuesday night at Balmoral Park, scoring the milestone victory with Della Ware. Miller, 37, has been plitting time between New Jersey and Illinois for most of the 2006 season but the hectic travel schedule has not slowed him down one bit as he once again
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GE's Jen repeats at Harr.
June 28, 2006
Phillip Mitchell's GE's Jen won her second straight race on Tuesday, this one in 1:52.2, for trainer Kevin McDermott in a $15,000 Fillies and Mares Open pace over a "sloppy" track at Harrington Raceway. The 7-year-old JK Outlaw mare won her first start for McDermott on June 16 at the Meadowlands
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Jug pool odds corrected
June 28, 2006
The final odds first reported to Delaware County Fair officials for the first Little Brown Jug future wagering pool were incorrect. Western Shore, the fifth-place finisher in the Hoosier Cup, is an even stronger favorite at odds of 8-5. The "field" remained the second choice of the bettors at odds o
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Filly dies in Balmoral race
June 28, 2006
Three-year-old filly pacer Miss Cover Girl, trained by Paul Stafford of the Ken Rucker Stable, died at the finish line at the conclusion of the ninth race at Balmoral Park Tuesday night. The well-bred daughter of Blissfull Hall-Valadonna Hanover trailed the entire way for driver Todd Warren before c
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Progress for PA slots
June 28, 2006
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has reported that the Pennsylvania state Senate voted to make a major change in the 2004 law that legalized slot machines, eliminating a requirement for middleman companies called slots suppliers or distributors. The bill must now go to the House, where it could be passed
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Tioga Downs closed to Sat.
June 28, 2006
Mother Nature has proven she surely isn't a slots player as the planned Wednesday morning opening of the 750-machine slot parlor at Tioga Downs in New York has been postponed to Saturday morning due to extreme flooding in the area after days of prolonged rain. Also, Friday night's race card has been
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Savage still Hambo bound
June 28, 2006
Keystone Savage will try to break a 27-year jinx and become the first Peter Haughton Memorial winner to capture the $1.5 million Hambletonian, harness racing’s most coveted prize, on Aug. 5, at the Meadowlands. No colt has gone from winning the Peter Haughton, the Meadowlands’ signature event for tw
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Ace, Truth to Big M Pace
June 28, 2006
George Teague told harnessracing.com he plans on sending both Western Ace and Total Truth to the Meadowlands Pace elims, scheduled for July 8. Total Truth is coming off wins in the North America Cup and Hoosier Cup. Western Ace, who finished fifth in the North America Cup, is in-to-go Saturday in
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Expensive Scooter dies
June 28, 2006
Expensive Scooter p,3, 1:51 ($910,846) died Saturday morning, June 24, in his stall at Morrow Lands Farm in Mt. Gilead, Ohio, at age 15. According to Dean Redmond, who co-owned the stallion with Steven Stanek, Walter Brown and James Coffman, a veterinarian’s autopsy revealed that Expensive Scooter d
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Constance Hill wins qualifier
June 28, 2006
Walnut Hall Ltd.-bred Constance Hall, a half sister to 2003 Trotter of the Year Cantab Hall, won a qualifier at Windsor Raceway Wednesday morning in 2:04.1. The 2-year-old daughter of Striking Sahbra-Canland Hall failed to make her reserve bid last fall as a yearling and was retained by Walnut Hall
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3 winners for Gurfein
June 28, 2006
Things were going trainer Ron Gurfein’s way at the Meadowlands Wednesday night, just days before his induction in the Harness Racing Hall of Fame. He had winners with Possess The Magic in the Acorn and two other filly trotters in overnight action. Possess The Magic, a filly by Gurfein’s Hambleton
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Another winner for Teague
June 28, 2006
George Teague and Patrick Callahan’s luck has continued. The two owners of North America Cup and Hoosier Cup winner Total Truth enjoyed a first and a second-place finish in the Debutante Wednesday night at the Meadowlands. Isabella Blue Chip, a daughter of Bettor’s Delight, won her second straigh
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