News Archive

Big M seeks 2 more days
July 13, 2006
The Meadowlands Racetrack has requested to make up two of the programs lost to the state government shutdown with the addition to the 2006 racing schedule of Friday, August 11 and Saturday, August 12. The amended dates request will be considered by the New Jersey Racing Commission at its July 19 mee
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Fielding ponders big weekend
July 13, 2006
It could be a big weekend at the Meadowlands for horse owner John Fielding. In addition to Took Hanover, who is gunning for the lion’s share of the $1 million Meadowlands Pace, Fielding will send out Ponder in the $650,000 William R. Haughton Memorial and Capetown Hall and Global Glide in the $375,0
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Season's mark tied in Reynolds
July 13, 2006
Omen Hanover and driver Daniel Dube turned in the fastest of five W.N. Reynolds Memorial Stakes splits for 2-year-old pacing fillies with a 1:55.3 mile at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs Wednesday afternoon, tying the season’s mark. A daughter of Western Hanover out of the millionaire Ooh’s ‘N Aah’s
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Longshot hope for Pontone
July 13, 2006
Tom Pontone of Kearny, New Jersey, came close to winning the $1 million Meadowlands Pace in 2002 when McArdle, a horse he co-owned, finished second. This year, he and his partners hope that Shark Gesture can take them all the way to the winner’s circle in the Meadowlands’ signature event Saturday ni
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Crawford gets 3,000th win
July 13, 2006
Keith Crawford reached the 3,000th driving win milestone in the Michigan Colt Stakes Blue Circuit races at Big Rapids, Mich., on Wednesday evening. Crawford picked up two wins on the 15-race card, driving Keystone Raider full sisters Ellaraider in the 2-year-old filly pace and Gina Raider in the
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Sulky breaks at Big M
July 13, 2006
Driver Ron Pierce escaped injury when his sulky collapsed at the Meadowlands Wednesday night during the 12th and final race on the program. Pierce, who was riding in an AdvantEdge sulky he owned, took a seat on the sloppy track when the bike gave way at about the eighth pole in the stretch drive.
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NYSS winners aim for Hambo
July 13, 2006
Tom McTygue, the Saratoga Springs Commissioner of Public Works, and trainer John Stark Jr had one very special guest in the winner’s circle-- New York State Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno--when their Hambletonian-bound Algiers Hall won his New York Sire Stakes division at Saratoga Gaming and Ra
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Tattersalls set for Sunday
July 13, 2006
The Tattersalls July Mixed Sale, slated to begin at 1 p.m. on Sunday, caps off an exciting weekend of stakes action at the Meadowlands that features the track’s signature event, the $1-million Meadowlands Pace on Saturday night. With 105 lots for sale and an 18-horse supplement, the annual mixed
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Harness on RDF-TV
July 13, 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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Illinois to discuss problems
July 13, 2006
The Illinois Racing Board (IRB) has scheduled three days of hearings to address the difficulties and challenges confronting horse racing in Illinois. The hearings, chaired by IRB Commissioner John Simon, will be held on Tuesday, July 18, and Wednesday, July 19, on the 16th floor, room 503, of the Ja
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PPK race being investigated
July 13, 2006
The Florida Department of Business Regulation and officials at Pompano Park are investigating the results of a July 5 race that resulted in a suspiciously low exacta payoff after a 130-1 shot finished second in the race. In the 10th race on July 5 at Pompano, the 3-1 second choice, Rip Rock And R
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Fillies tune up in qualifier
July 13, 2006
My Little Dragon, last year’s Breeders Crown 2-Year-Old Filly Pace champion, and Lonesome Day, last year’s Sweetheart winner, tuned up for the Mistletoe Shalee in a 1:54.1 qualifier Wednesday morning at the Meadowlands. My Little Dragon, driven by Brian Sears, won the qualifier, pacing her last q
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Jugbarn draft open now!
July 13, 2006
Starting at 12 a.m. Sunday, July 16, the first draft period for the Little Brown Jug Fantasy Contest begins. The draft period is limited to Sunday, July 16, Monday, July 17, and ends at midnight (12 a.m.) Tuesday, July 18 when the lock down also begins due to the closing of entries for the next even
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Artzina wins final in 1:52.3
July 13, 2006
Artzina charged down the stretch and repelled all challengers en route to victory in the $175,000 New Jersey Sires Stakes Final for 2-year-old pacing colts and geldings Thursday night at the Meadowlands. Driven by John Campbell and trained by Dylan Davis, Artzina used a first-over attack past the
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