Miss Wisconsin wins in Lex September 23, 2006
Five John Simpson Memorial stakes were conducted at The Red Mile over a sloppy race track Friday night after day-long rains in Lexington. There was some talk by management of cancelling the card early in the day due to the bleak weather forecast, but the track was more than serviceable with most of [read more]
SRF to ID horses September 23, 2006
The Standardbred Retirement Foundation (SRF) has announced that it will begin marking all horses entering its adoption program with a freezebrand. Using liquid nitrogen and a cold branding iron, it takes less than a minute to apply a freezebrand. A freezebrand on every SRF horse is another precauti [read more]
1:53 by Farmer Jones September 23, 2006
Farmer Jones, a horse with a reputation for having plenty of speed, proved it again Friday at Colonial Downs, setting a new track and world record of 1:53 for 4-year-old gelding trotters. Farmer Jones set the 3-year-old mark last fall, with a 1:52.2 clocking at the one-turn mile.
Driver John Wagn [read more]