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No fake--a 1:49.2 win
December 04, 2006
One week after recording the fastest mile ever at Harrah’s Chester Casino & Racetrack, Fake Denario N did it again while capturing the $50,000 final of the Town Drunk late-closer series in 1:49.2. After an early scramble resulted in a :26.3 first quarter, Fake Denario N and driver Ron Pierce ma
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Four $100,000 events held
December 04, 2006
The favorites persevered in the four $100,000 Delaware Standardbred Breeders Fund (DSBF) finals on Sunday at Dover Downs. Mr. Aviator and filly Double Flip and won the pacing events while Ms. Virginia took the filly trot final and Swissonian the colt trot. Double Flip, a Badlands Hanover filly, w
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Ready for Mondays at PPK?
December 04, 2006
Pompano Park adds Mondays to its winter schedule beginning today. The track will now be open for live racing and poker four days a week, Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. The first Monday program will feature a $10,000 Open Handicap Trot in the sixth race headlined by recent winner Muscular
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Nahcotta Jude repeats at YR
December 04, 2006
Nahcotta Jude liked his road to success so much in last week's Open Handicap Trot at Yonkers Raceway, he retraced the route in Sunday night's $21,000 feature. With Jim Marohn again driving for trainer Joe Vance, the 5-year-old Armbro Scorpion gelding was again content to sit chilly early. Leavi
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Classic Casette dies
December 04, 2006
The U.S. Trotting Association is reporting Classic Casette, one of the more prolific broodmres of all time with 10 2:00 trotters from 16 foals, died last Friday at Lindy Farms of Connecticut. Among her top performers was her first foal, 1987 progeny Cayster 4, 1:55 ($530,451), who was by Speedy Somo
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Nfld announces 2007 stakes
December 04, 2006
The gathering of the sport's race secretaries in Florida is now complete and the first track to announce its 2007 stakes schedule is Northfield Park, which has surprised with the moving of the Battle of Lake Erie to late April from a traditional late June date. The $125,000 race for older horse p
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