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PASS 2YO Filly Pace action
July 05, 2006
The Meadows held six divisions of the Pennsylvania Sir Stakes for 2-year-old filly pacers Tuesday night. Fiore Hanover, trained by George Teague Jr., won the first division with driver Dave Palone in 1:55.4. The $16,000 yearling purchase sat third throughout most of the mile, behind Jayne’s Charact
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Lights go out at Rosecroft
July 05, 2006
Rosecroft Raceway was forced to cancel its final four races on Tuesday night, including it's $11,300 Preferred Pace, due to the outage of a portion of racetrack lighting. Violent electrical storms have peppered the Washington D.C. area over the past few days, and have caused numerous power outages.
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Brian Zendt injured
July 05, 2006
Brian Zendt, 30, was injured during the 11th race Monday night, at The Meadows when his horse Tag After tax became entangled with Mike Wilder and his horse, Mama Sand Tenor. Zendt was flown to a Pittsburgh area hospital. While no serious injuries were immediately known, he was hospitalized for evalu
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Meadowlands closed Wed.
July 05, 2006
With the New Jersey legislature still at an impasse over its budget, the Meadowlands has canceled its live racing program for Wednesday, July 5. “Given the hour-to-hour nature of the negotiations, we will take each program day-by-day,” said vice president for racing operations Chris McErlean. “W
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Tioga slots open
July 05, 2006
Tioga Downs finally opened its 750-machine video gaming parlor Tuesday, July 4, and an overflow crowd filled the site to capacity throughout the day. Nearly 400 people were reportedly in line when the racino opened at 10 a.m., an opening delayed three times the past week due to flooding in the area.
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Top trotters race Friday
July 05, 2006
While 3-year-old pacers are the focus on Saturday night in the Meadowlands Pace eliminations, the Friday card will showcase the sport’s top sophomore trotters as the fields are decided for the $375,000 Stanley Dancer Memorial and $375,000 Delvin Miller Memorial at the Meadowlands. Twenty-two co
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Harness racing on RFD
July 05, 2006
Inside The Heart Of Harness Racing, a 23-minute documentary providing insights into several aspects of the standardbred sport, will air on cable/satellite network RFD-TV starting in July. RFD-TV is on channel 9409 on DISH Network and on channel 379 on DirecTV. Inside The Heart of Harness Racing w
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Black Book '06 roster online
July 05, 2006
The roster of yearlings for this year's Harrisburg sale is now available on Standardbred Horse Sales Company's web site. www.theblackbook.com. The group consists of an all-time modern era total of 1,086--557 pacers and 429 trotters. The pacing contingent is led by perennial leader Western Hanover
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