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A win through Litigation
November 29, 2006
Heavy favorite Litigator made it look effortless as he trotting to a 3 1/4-length triumph in the final Illinois Standardbred Owners and Breeders Association Stake of 2006 at Balmoral Park Tuesday night. Just six lined up behind the gate but all five could do was chase Litigator across the wire in 1:
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Tuesday DD wrap-up
November 29, 2006
Poppy Lustre N made it to the winner's circle after a four-wide drive down the stretch to post a 1:52 victory in the $24,000 Filly and Mare Open Pace Tuesday at Dover Downs. Tim Tetrick won four races, Ross Wolfenden and Brad Hanners drove three winners each, and Tony Morgan had a double. As
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Wide-open trot at PPK
November 29, 2006
With the morning line favorite selected to pay $7 to win, you know it’s a wide-open race and that is what Pompano Park is hosting Wednesday in the 8th race $10,000 Open Handicap trotting feature. The 5-2 favorite is Guy Gets Girl from post five for driver Bruce Ranger. The 7-year-old gelding by K
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Santa Claus comes to Wdb
November 29, 2006
Keeping the momentum behind what is quickly becoming a tradition among the Woodbine drivers' colony, top Canadian reinsmen Chris Christoforou, Luc Ouellette, Rick Zeron, Jody Jamieson and Mark MacDonald are all donating their five-percent commissions from selected race dates to the Jim Proudfoot Cor
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Last 2 at Wdb fogged out
November 29, 2006
Fog, which earlier in the day Tuesday forced the cancellation of qualifiers at Mohawk after just one race, also prompted the cancellation of the last two races at Woodbine Tuesday night. The fog began to build through the night and there was a short delay after the eighth race in the hopes of it
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Smith honored at Plainridge
November 29, 2006
Loyalty was rewarded Tuesday at Plainridge Racecourse as the curtain came down on the 2006 season as trainer-driver Cathy Smith, who trucked a couple of horses some 300 miles round-trip from her home in Shapleigh, Maine to Plainridge each week, was awarded the track's President's Award by COO Gary T
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Table games in Pa.?
November 29, 2006
Having slot machines at racetracks in Pennsylvania is still in its infant stage but already there is talk a bill is being drafted to add poker, blackjack and other table games, turning the slots parlors into full-blown casinos. Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs opened its slots-only parlor just about two
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Rich final four on tap
November 29, 2006
Harness racing's top 2 year olds will have their last chance to stamp themselves as contenders for end-of-year awards in the $1.7 million Fall Final Four on Saturday night at the Meadowlands. The Fall Final Four includes the $410,000 Goldsmith Maid for trotting fillies (race two), $432,700 Valley
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McKee calls at Dover
November 29, 2006
Yes, that voice you heard calling the race card at Dover Downs Tuesday night was Meadowlands announcer Sam McKee, who was filling in for Dover's stalwart race-caller Jack Gallagher. McKee told harnessracing.com Wednesday that he learned it was the first day of work Gallagher has missed in 27 years o
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14-year stint to end
November 29, 2006
A story in Wednesday’s Asbury Park Press has confirmed Meadowlands’ vice president of racing operations Chris McErlean will be leaving that track in the next few weeks after being one of several persons taking a buyout offered by the New Jersey Sports & Exposition Authority. Dennis Dowd, senior e
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Caviart Sydney retired
November 29, 2006
The 3-year-old pacing filly Caviart Sydney has been retired from racing and is on her way to the breeding barn, according to her owners, Buck and Judy Chaffee of Caviart Farms. She will be bred to Rocknroll Hanover in 2007. “Retiring Sydney was a hard decision because she just kept racing stronge
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