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Number 18 for Tweedle Dum
November 02, 2006
The outside nine post didn’t matter. A sloppy racetrack didn’t matter. Nothing seems to matter to Tweedle Dum anymore--except winning! The grand 6 year old won Wednesday night at Pompano Park for the 18th time this year—tops in North America for any trotter. To add a bit more glory, all of Tweedle D
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A lofty 4-length win
November 02, 2006
The final ISOBA Super Sales Stake of the season was contested on Wednesday night at Balmoral Park with 2-year-old trotting colts taking center stage, and taking advantage of miscues by three of the five starters in the $16,000 race Brenda and Trenton Watson’s Lofty Game circled rivals on the far tur
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Masterpiece for Vangogh
November 02, 2006
JM Vangogh tuned up for the $85,000 Classic Trot next Monday by turning back seven rivals in 1:54.3 to win the $24,000 Open Handicap trot at Dover Downs on Wednesday. Kennywood took the $18,500 sub feature. Jim Morand collected a driving quadruple. A $1.1-million winner, Tony Morgan took JM Vango
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Six for Two Sox
November 02, 2006
Virgil Morgan’s SS Two Sox won his sixth straight race and remained unbeaten at Colonial Downs with a 2 1/4-length victory in Wednesday’s featured eighth race. Morgan claimed SS Two Sox on Sept. 2 and the 4-year-old Firm Belief gelding has not tasted defeat since. On Wednesday, SS Two Sox took co
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Five winners for Devaux
November 02, 2006
Jimmy Devaux put on a driving clinic at Monticello Raceway Wednesday when he drove five horses to victory on the 13-race card. Oddly, all his winners came behind trotters, which is a record of sorts and the first time in the 48-year history of Monticello Raceway that a driver reined five trotters to
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TCS four strong at Dover
November 02, 2006
The Classic Series (TCS) came up with four powerful and competitive fields for leg number two at Dover Downs on Monday, Nov. 6. All four classes required one $85,000 division. The Pacing Classic kicks off the Classic action in race six. Casimir Camotion, winner of the first leg at Woodbine last S
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Pocono slots on horizon
November 02, 2006
Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs is on target to open its $70 million temporary slot machine parlor on Tuesday, Nov. 14. According to reports, racetrack workers are currently installing the last of the 1,083 slot machines, with several last-minute checks also being done. The slot area will be open 24
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Mighty M's Horse of the Year
November 02, 2006
Carlspur, recently named the 2006 Monticello Raceway Horse of the Year, is at the New Bolton Center in Pennsylvania after undergoing more than two hours of surgery Wednesday night. The 10-year-old horse has a career mark of 1:48 and earnings of $882,361 for owners Tom Trezza and Joel Spindel. He las
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Cam's Eclipse to Kentucky
November 02, 2006
Cam’s Eclipse, who has stood stallion duty in Michigan the past five years and has two small crops of racing age competing, will stand the 2007 breeding season at Peninsula Farm in Kentucky. Cam’s Eclipse, from the last crop of sire Cam Fella, will stand for a fee of $1,500, with a multiple mare
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