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Appleoosa looks deceiving
October 19, 2006
According to Carl Jamieson, Shes A Great Lady victor Appleoosa Hanover will be ready to roll Friday evening at Woodbine when she gets behind the starting gate for her Breeders Crown elimination for 2-year-old pacing fillies. Since her tally in the $754,500(C) Shes A Great Lady, the Western Hanov
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Confidence in Metro winner
October 19, 2006
Metro Pace winner Yankee Skyscaper has spent the last week at Classy Lane Stables, in Puslinch, Ont., and trainer Chris Ryder says he has confidence in the Artiscape colt heading into the Breeders Crown eliminations for the 2-year-old pacing colts Saturday evening at Woodbine. "The horse is doin
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Harrington frosh mark falls
October 19, 2006
John Celii's Jesse N Echo set a new Harrington Raceway track record Wednesday in the second leg of the Delaware Standardbred Breeders Fund (DSBF) stakes for 2-year-old colt pacers with a 1:55.4 win. Driven by Tony Morgan for trainer George Teague, the Badlands Hanover colt set all the fractions a
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An attack at Colonial
October 19, 2006
Read Racing’s Civil Attack scored his fourth win of the meet and set a lifetime mark of 1:50.3 Wednesday night at Colonial Downs. Trainer-driver Dean Collins sent Civil Attack right to the front to seize control of the race. Civil Attack flew down the long Colonial Downs backstretch to set early fra
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Oldtimers win at Pompano
October 19, 2006
Ultimate Sundance, the 11-year-old wonder horse owned by Mike Biel of Ft. Lauderdale, once again proved his class by winning the $10,000 Open Handicap Trot at Pompano Park on Wednesday night in 1:56.4. The son of Ultimate Kosmos, driven by Bruce Ranger, won for the eighth time in 23 starts this year
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Two with Crown connections
October 19, 2006
Trainer George Teague Jr. is starting a pair of 2-year-old trotting fillies in Friday’s Breeders Crown eliminations at Woodbine that have previous Crown connections. Danae is listed at 7-1 in the first elim for driver Ron Pierce, while Satu is 6-1 in the second elim for driver Luc Ouellette. Dana
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Artsplace improves slightly
October 19, 2006
For the first time during his several weeks of battling laminitis, Artsplace laid down in his stall last night at the University of Pennsylvania’s New Bolton Center and slept for four solid hours. Art Zubrod of Brittany Stallion Management said the 18-year-old horse’s veterinarian, Dr. Andrew van Ep
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Top colt trotter syndicated
October 19, 2006
David Scharf has told harnessracing.com that it was “the right time to make this move,” so that is why he and his partners have reached an agreement with Hanover Shoe Farms to syndicate the 2-year-old colt trotter Donato Hanover. On Thursday morning, the day before Donato Hanover takes to the Woodbi
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Crown on Sirius, HRTV
October 19, 2006
This year’s Breeders Crown finals will be broadcast on Sirius Satellite Radio Channel 125, with the 3-hour show hosted by Dave Johnson, Bill Finley and a yet-to-be-named third person. The program will air 8 to 11 p.m. and include coverage of the eight finals which have total purses of more than $4 m
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P Glide aims for B Crown
October 19, 2006
Passionate Glide’s nearly perfect $1 million season has not scared off her peers, as 11 other fillies opted to test the reigning queen of the division in her quest for a second Crown. Two $25,000 splits of six sophomore fillies will go postward on Saturday, Oct. 21, at Woodbine, to arrive at 10 cont
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Mac Cuddy dies
October 19, 2006
Mac Cuddy, turkey entrepreneur and horseman, has died after a lengthy battle with Multiple Sclerosis. He was 86. Mr. Cuddy is survived by his wife Patricia of 16 years, his five sons Bruce, Brian, Peter, Robert and Douglas, his daughter Barbara, and 19 grandchildren. In 1950, Mr. Cuddy purchas
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Yes to Learn & Earn in Ohio
October 19, 2006
The Ohio Learn & Earn Campaign is rounding into the homestretch and Dr. John Mossbarger of Midland Acres is encouraging all horsemen in Ohio—both Standardbred and Thoroughbred—to get involved in the grassroots effort to pass Issue 3 on Nov. 7. “I’d like to encourage everybody in the equine indust
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Longshots take on Donato
October 19, 2006
The popular TV show 24 covers the events of a 24-hour period in the life of counter-terrorist agent Jack Bauer. The 24 freshman trotting colts entered in the $600,000 Breeders Crown will have their futures decided in less than two minutes this Friday at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto. The three $2
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