News Archive

Last chance Jug players!
September 08, 2006
This is it Little Brown Jug Fantasy Players! Your last chance to make changes in your 10-horse stable, with the timeframe closing at 11:59 p.m. TONIGHT--Thursday night, Sept. 14. Contestants may log on to www.jugbarn.com to make their changes, which includes having the chance to replace up to two co
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Hazel to honor Marshall
September 08, 2006
A five-decade career in harness racing will be recognized Saturday, Sept. 23, when Hazel Park Harness Raceway pays tribute to veteran racing official Ken Marshall as part of its Michigan Super Night program. Following in the footsteps of a Hall of Famer is never easy, but Marshall has certainly s
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Rosecroft all-stars Tues.
September 08, 2006
Rosecroft Raceway will present the $35,000 All-Star Drivers Challenge featuring eight of North America's leading reinsman on Tuesday, Sept. 12. The line-up will include Ron Pierce, Brian Sears, Tony Morgan, Dave Palone, Mark MacDonald, Tim Tetrick, Jody Jamieson and John Wagner. Wagner currently le
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Black Book '06 online
September 08, 2006
The yearling portion of the 2006 Harrisburg sale is now available on the Standardbred Horse Sales Company's web site, www.theblackbook.com. This year's select yearling sale includes 1,078 yearlings, the vast majority of them by North America's leading trotting and pacing sires. There were initial
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Tough EPO penalties in Ky.
September 08, 2006
Kentucky has begun testing for erythropoietin (EPO), using an Elisa test developed by a Lexington-based company and then the confirmatory process developed by a toxicology lab in Pennsylvania. Kentucky Horse Racing Authority director of Standardbred racing Marc Guilfoil told harnessracing.com tha
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Hennessey reflects on HOF
September 08, 2006
Wally Hennessey says when he received the phone call Thursday notifying him he had been elected to the Harness Racing Living Hall of Fame he had to ask for the words to be repeated. And then Hennessey—who turns 50 on Oct. 4—says he had a flashback of his entire life, beginning from his roots in Prin
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4,000 for Brett Miller
September 08, 2006
Brett Miller scored the 4,000th victory of his career Thursday night at his home base of Scioto Downs. The 33-year-old reinsman started the card needing three wins, which he got in quick succession. He captured the second with favored Lady Millbucks; the fifth with longshot Betta Ona Freddie; then w
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Bet sports at Casino Windsor
September 08, 2006
Hazel Park Harness Raceway has been battling the competition of blackjack, craps and slots at three casinos in downtown Detroit and one in neighboring Windsor for a more than a decade, and now that casino across the border in Canada is offering sports betting. Beginning at 4 p.m. on Friday the Winds
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Auction for Equine Dreams
September 08, 2006
Once again this year Cottonwood Farm will conduct a stallion service auction at its yearling sale to benefit Equine Dreams, a registered not-for-profit organization that provides free therapeutic riding services for children and adults with physical and/or mental disabilities. Cottonwood’s annual ye
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Enough Talk NJSS champ
September 08, 2006
Enough Talk, with Hall of Fame driver Catello Manzi in the sulky, led from start to finish in winning the $85,000 New Jersey Sire Stakes Championship final for 3-year-old trotting colts and geldings Friday in 1:57.1 at Freehold Raceway. The gelded son of Enjoy Lavec held off a strong challenge from
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Field set for PASS final
September 08, 2006
Two-year-old filly Undercover Lover won her third consecutive Pennsylvania Sire Stakes Friday afternoon at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs, stamping herself as the one to beat in her trotting division for the Pennsylvania Championship finals next week. Driver Joe Pavia, Jr. never had an anxious moment w
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Frosh fillies shine in KYSS
September 08, 2006
Real Girl scored a career-best 1:53.4 victory and My Fave Wave equaled her mark of 1:54.2 in capturing their respective $25,000 third-leg divisions of Kentucky Sire Stakes for 2-year-old filly pacers at The Red Mile Friday night. The 2-5 favored Real Girl cleared to the lead down the backstretch
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