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Florida ready for sunshine
July 19, 2006
The Sunshine Stakes for Florida-bred 2 and 3-year-old trotters and pacers gets underway Wednesday at Pompano Park. Total purses for the six-week series are in excess of $400,000. The trotters are in the limelight Wednesday with last year’s top 2-year-old trotting colt, Admiral Nemo, heading the t
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Jack Hankins dies
July 19, 2006
Illinois Harness Horsemen’s Association (IHHA) Hall of Fame member Jack Hankins, also a founding director of the IHHA, died Monday, July 17, after a long struggle with Parkinson’s disease. He was 80. Mr. Hankins, along with his wife, Joyce, was inducted in the Illinois Hall of Fame in 1989, becom
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Regal ready for Crown?
July 19, 2006
Trainer Bob McIntosh already knows that Ponder is capable of competing against the upper echelon of this year’s older pacing class, and he says he is now ready to find out if Stonebridge Regal, one of last year’s top 3 year olds, will also fit in. The two McIntosh trainees will vie in separate Breed
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No Hap for Darlin's Delight
July 19, 2006
World champion Darlin’s Delight has been deemed ineligible to compete in Friday night’s Tarport Hap at the Meadowlands because she did not pass the qualifying standard. After June 1, the qualifying standard at the Meadowlands for 3 year olds is 1:57, with a one-second allowance for racing on a ha
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Loyal Opposition resting
July 19, 2006
Breeders Crown champion Loyal Opposition will not be defending her title in this year’s $331,500 Mare Pace, which will be raced Saturday evening, July 29, at the Meadowlands. Ervin Miller, trainer of the $2.7 million-winning daughter of Cole Muffler has decided she needs some time off. “She just
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Near The Limit sets record
July 19, 2006
Jim Taggart Jr. drove Near The Limit to a 1:54.2 track record for 4-year-old trotting geldings Wednesday afternoon at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs. The previous Pocono record was 1:55, shared by Bloodstock’s Sam and Ripped. The son of Yankee Glide sat off the pace early, then started his move seco
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Countess Adios at Big M
July 19, 2006
The Artiscape-sired fillies Lady Mattgalane and Me And My Baby took the two $69,100 Countess Adios divisions at the Meadowlands Wednesday night, turning in 1:53 and 1:54.2 miles, respectively. Lady Mattgalane upset the first division field, paying $42.40 to win with her three-length score. Han
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Colt hails from top family
July 19, 2006
Post position eight couldn’t stop the precocious young trotting colt Penn Noble Rocky from turning in a 1:57 mile to win the $175,000 New Jersey Sire Stakes final for 2 year olds at the Meadowlands Wednesday night. Bred by Louis Peachy of Pennsylvania, Penn Noble Rocky went through the Blooded Ho
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