News Archive

55 wins for Benn's Fire
January 05, 2007
When she broke stride on Aug. 31 and came out of the race injured, her future clearly looked to be in the breeding shed, but just four months later, Benn's Fire is back and beating the best. She won for the 55th time in her career when she scored in 1:59 Thursday night at Cal Expo. Prior to start
[read more]

Big M to still be on RTN
January 05, 2007
The Meadowlands races will remain on RTN in 2007 after Roberts Communications Network was able to work out an agreement with Television Games Network (TVG), which had recently gained exclusive broadcast rights to races at the Big M and its sister Thoroughbred track Monmouth Park. "It is now offic
[read more]

Trainer doing swimmingly
January 05, 2007
It has been unseasonably warm this winter but even when there is a chill in the air, the horses in the care of trainer Ettore Annunziata prepare for their races at the Meadowlands with a few laps in the pool. Annunziata’s farm in the Putnam County (N.Y.) community of Mahopac has no track. He keeps
[read more]

Handicap contest in Can.
January 05, 2007
Standardbred Canada (SC) has announced Canada's first-ever national Standardbred Handicapping Championship, which will begin in March and take place at racetracks across the country in regional qualifying events, before a final held at Woodbine in early November. Kathy Wade Vlaar, SC's manager of
[read more]

Gray Gladiator retired
January 05, 2007
Harnessracing.com was told Friday morning by co-owner Ed Sayfie that Admiral’s Express, the sport’s all-time leader in sub-1:50 victories, has been retired after a career in which he won 76 races and $1,649,900. Sayfie and his wife, Cheryl, and partners Gary and Laurel Gust originally paid just $3,7
[read more]

TgDn/VD announce races
January 05, 2007
Tioga Downs and Vernon Downs are pleased to announce some of its early closing events for the 2007 race season, along with our race dates that are pending New York State Racing and Wagering Board regulatory approval. Tioga Downs will begin racing on Friday, May 11 and race until Friday, Sept. 14.
[read more]

Fanning is a renegade
January 05, 2007
For five of the eight horses in Saturday’s featured race at the Meadowlands, it is the final prelude to the three-week Presidential Series, which gets underway in mid January. One of those five is Pacific Renegade who is rated at 4-1 in the morning line in the $35,000 winners-over condition pace, ca
[read more]

Drivers set for MLK Pace
January 05, 2007
The drivers for Monticello Raceway’s sixth edition of its Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Pace is now set. The only things that remain are the driving assignments and post positions and those too, will be finalized on Tuesday when racing secretary Eric Warner puts the Friday, Jan. 12 card together. Ea
[read more]

$1.4 million average at WEG
January 05, 2007
Woodbine Entertainment Group released figures Friday that noted Woodbine/Mohawk averaged $1,441,430(C) in daily handle on its harness programs in 2006, with total handle exceeding $373 million over the 259 days of racing. Trackside, there were 631 claims made worth $19,238,750(C). Favorites won a
[read more]