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Collins big at Colonial
October 18, 2006
Trainer-driver Dean Collins drove four winners, including three straight, on a sloppy Tuesday night at Colonial Downs. Collins scored his first win on Tuesday with Stately’s Hoss in race two. Collins sent the 3-year-old The Panderosa colt to the lead near the end of the backstretch and Stately’s Ho
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Litigator sets career mark
October 18, 2006
The Illinois conceived and foaled sophomore trotting set was on display Tuesday night at Balmoral Park as a field of eight diagonally gaited colts and geldings were sent to battle in a $15,130 ISOBA Stake. Just as he’s done throughout most of his 2006 campaign Phillip Rietveld’s Litigator had no tro
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Sloppy DSBFs held
October 18, 2006
Winbak Farm and John and Earl Wagner's Double Flip earned her second straight win in the second $15,000 leg of the Delaware Standardbred Breeders Fund (DSBF) stakes for 2-year-old pacing fillies Tuesday at Harrington Raceway with a 1:57.4 win over a "sloppy" track. Driven by Tony Morgan, the Badl
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Filly aims for rich final
October 18, 2006
Earlier this year Darlin’s Delight duplicated her dam Town Pro’s victory in the Fan Hanover, and now she’ll try to do the same in the upcoming Breeders Crown. Town Pro won the 1985 Breeders Crown for 3-year-old filly pacers at Pompano Park, and Darlin’s Delight make her attempt at Woodbine Saturday,
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EL Mikko fresh & ready
October 18, 2006
EL Mikko gave Glidemaster all he could handle in the recent Kentucky Futurity, actually taking a short lead near the top of the stretch at The Red Mile before giving way and settling for runner-up honors. The two trotters don’t have to wait long for a return match-up as they drew into the same Breed
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Positive for Holborn Hanover
October 18, 2006
Holborn Hanover has been disqualified from his 1:47.4 win in the $203,000 American National at Balmoral Park in late August, and trainer Brett Robinson has been fined $2,500 after the 5-year-old pacer tested positive for the Class 3 drug Pyrilamine, an antihistamine. Illinois Racing Board project
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