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An Ideal win in Waterloo
August 08, 2006
Heavily-favored Warrawee Ideal won Monday night’s $300,000(C) Battle of Waterloo final at Grand River Raceway with a 1:56.4 effort, edging his pacesetting stablemate Test Flight, with Twin B Survivor third. Driven by Jody Jamieson, Warrawee Ideal is trained by his father, Carl, who won the Battle
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Shark shoots series win
August 08, 2006
At surprising odds of 23-1, Lilsharkshooter won Monday night’s $53,400(C) Dream Maker Series final for 2-year-old pacers at Mohawk with a 1:54.1 effort for driver Luc Ouellette. Ouellette raced near the back of the field for much of the mile, and was still more than seven lengths behind at the three
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Green Acres at Freehold
August 08, 2006
The New Jersey Sire Stakes will open its “Second Season” Thursday, Aug. 10, at Freehold Raceway with a total of $50,000 in Green Acres purses for 3-year-old pacing fillies and 2-year-old pacing colts and geldings. There will be two $10,000 races for the sophomore filly pacers and three $10,000 races
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Adios draw complete
August 08, 2006
Three elimination divisions of the Adios were drawn Tuesday afternoon at The Meadows, and the races will be held as the 10th, 11th and, 12th on the card, with the final slated for race 15. The Adios Day program begins with a 1 p.m. post time on Saturday. The top three finishers from each of $50,000
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Florida slots lawsuit alive
August 08, 2006
The South Florida Sun-Sentinel has reported that a lawsuit challenging voter approval of a state constitutional amendment permitting slot machine gambling in Broward Count county was reinstated Tuesday by an appellate court. The story said that a three-judge panel of the 1st District Court of App
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