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Two hot number at YR
January 30, 2007
If you're number two you're supposed to try harder and, sure enough, those saddle pads tried the hardest Monday night at Yonkers Raceway as five "two horses"--all in succession--found the winner's circle during the 10-race program. Odds-on favorite Ketystone Rideau ($2.60) and leading driver S
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Pierce takes Dover features
January 30, 2007
It was déjà vu all over again in Monday's double-feature events at Dover Downs. Just as the previous Monday, Fake Denario N in 1:50.1 and Black Cat Bone, in 1:52.4, both driven by Ron Pierce, turned in impressive victories in the $37,500 Preferred pace and $35,000 Delaware Special, respectively.
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Scotty beams into circle
January 30, 2007
Ashcos Scotty benefited from an ideal second-over trip and a strong three-wide move to prevail in the $8,000 feature trot from Pompano Park on Monday. Driven from post five by David Ingraham, Ashcos Scotty dropped back to fourth place along the rail as post time favorite Absolute Resolve (Wally H
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Waples wins in return
January 30, 2007
The charitable night at Western Fair Raceway on Monday was supported by one of Canada’s best known drivers, Randy Waples, who timed his return from six months of healing and rehabilitation from a Mohawk racing accident last July 30 to support Western Fair’s life saving heart defibrillator acquisitio
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Trotter back after 6 years
January 30, 2007
Cherry Hills, an 11-year-old trotter that has not competed in a pari-mutuel race since Dec. 31, 2000, will make his return to the track in Wednesday’s fourth race $4,700 trot from Pompano Park. “When I first shipped in I saw him (Cherry Hills) jogging,” Cherry Hills’ former trainer Bill Gallagher
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