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Victory Tilly retired
October 25, 2006
Sweden's Kanal 75/ATG has reported that world record holder Victory Tilly has been retired. The 11-year-old gelding suffered another injury and it was decided he should be retired. Victory Tilly set a world record of 1:50.4 in the Nat Ray Trot on Aug. 3, 2002, at the Meadowlands. Trained and driv
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3 Classic Series legs set
October 25, 2006
The first leg of the Trotting Classic had only three declarations--Vivid Photo, Self Professed and Mr. Muscleman--and was cancelled, but three other divisions will begin the 2006 Classic Series this weekend at Woodbine. The first of three $85,000 preliminary legs, leading to the $250,000 finals f
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Classic Series to begin
October 25, 2006
The Classic Series (TCS) begins its 2006 season at Woodbine over the coming weekend. The first of three $85,000 preliminary legs, leading to the $250,000 finals for each division were drawn on Tuesday. The Classic Oaks goes on Friday night and fields nine, led by Peaceful Way. She’ll face Mystica
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Lucky 4 for Majestic Son?
October 25, 2006
When something works, you stick with it. At least that’s the reasoning behind trainer Mark Steacy selecting post four for Majestic Son in Saturday’s $500,000 Breeders Crown 3-Year-Old Colt Trot final. Steacy’s horse won his Oct. 21 elimination race from the same starting position. The connections of
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Mister Big-shot in Crown
October 25, 2006
Given the benefit of selecting their post position, the connections of Mister Big came up with a plan they hope will lead to their horse being known by another name: Breeders Crown champion. Jody Jamieson, who will drive Mister Big in Saturday’s $610,000 Breeders Crown 3-Year-Old Colt Pace, on Tuesd
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Sears says he's fortunate
October 25, 2006
No one has driven more Breeders Crown winners over the past three years than Brian Sears. After walking away from last Saturday’s accident that left Hall of Fame driver John Campbell with a fractured leg and a horse euthanized, Sears feels lucky to have a chance to add to his total this weekend in t
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Let's gogogo to Balmoral
October 25, 2006
Blackfoot Farms' Mogo On The Gogogo won the 2006 Sarah Myers Stakes, the final “major” test for Illinois conceived and foaled 2 year olds, Tuesday night at Balmoral Park. A full field of 10 trotting fillies was sent postward in race three with a purse of $36,000 on the line. With possible divisional
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Lily blooms at Harrington
October 25, 2006
Freida Ivory's Canaco Lily ($6) won her fouth straight race Tuesday at Harrington Raceway in one of three $13,700 Junior Open divisions for fillies and mares in 1:56.2 on a brisk and windy evening of racing. Driven by George Dennis, the 7-year-old Jeremys Gambit mare left from post five and got a
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Lillian McCarty Dies
October 25, 2006
Lillian McCarty, the personal secretary for the late Col. and Mrs. H. Willis Nichols Jr. of Walnut Hall Farm, died Monday, Oct. 23, in Harrodsburg, Ky. She was 82. Mrs. McCarty worked at the famed Standardbred nursery outside Lexington for 50 years.
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Turnaround for Dave Panlone
October 25, 2006
What a turnaround it has been for Dave Panlone, as the 3-year-old colt pacer has gone from being winless in four months—as well as being a last-minute scratch out of the Little Brown Jug eliminations after coming up lame—to being the morning-line favorite in Saturday’s Breeders Crown at Woodbine.
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Elliott hoping for BC wins
October 25, 2006
You might call the Breeders Crown 3-Year-Old Colt Pace Saturday at Woodbine a “Steve Elliott bookend race” as the trainer landed post one and 10 with his two entries Western Guy and Artistic Fella, respectively. It’s Artistic Fella, and Donato Hanover, the favorite in the Crown final for 2-year-old
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Condren's Crown hopefuls
October 25, 2006
Steve Condren, whose 50th birthday won’t arrive until next July, well after he is back north after wintering in Florida, continues to be one of the most consistent sulky practitioners in the sport. Saturday night at Woodbine, Condren will be center stage as he makes four appearances in the eight-rac
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Looking for a Crown diamond
October 25, 2006
Adam Bowden and his father Chris decided to get into the breeding and racing of harness horses in mid-2005. After 25-year-old Adam “spent half my summer riding around Kentucky with real estate agents,” the pair was able to purchase the ACL Farm of Swedish horseman John Magnusson, renamed it Diamond
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Muscle & Photo at Vernon
October 25, 2006
Mr. Muscleman and Vivid Photo, two of the top trotters in the world, are set to face off in the $20,000 Invitational Handicap Trot at Vernon Downs Saturday night. Mr Muscleman will be coming off an impressive 1:52.1 victory in the $40,050 Open Trot at Woodbine. Vivid Photo will make his first start
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