News Archive

Phil Hudon wins 3,000th
February 06, 2007
Phil Hudon saved one of his finest drives for career win 3,000, guiding Indian Ridge Annie to the milestone victory with a beautiful pocket trip in Monday's seventh race at Woodbine. Hudon and "Annie" took the $12,000 claiming event by a head over Andromeda for trainer Robert Fellows and the Baystre
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Win streak stops at 13
February 06, 2007
The 10-year-old veteran trotter Damon Runyon won in his seasonal debut on Monday and subsequently put an end to the 13-race winning streak of track record holder You’re Next when taking the fifth race $7,500 feature at Pompano Park. After briefly yielding the early advantage to Absolute Resolve
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Silence is blissfull at RcR
February 06, 2007
Blissfull Silence paced to a victory in the $8,200 Open event at Rosecroft Raceway on Monday after sitting in the pocket behind the betting favorite Dixie Pride. The 6-year-old Blissfull Hall gelding left the gate from post five and dropped in along the rail with Donnie Russell at his lines. Owned a
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Pick-6 carryover at Big M
February 06, 2007
For the second time in seven racing nights, the Pick 6 at the Meadowlands will have nearly a $15,000 carryover heading into Wednesday night’s races. With only one winning favorite in Saturday’s Pick 6 races, five winners were the best bettors could manage, resulting in $14,596.80 carried over to Wed
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Burke hearing on Friday
February 06, 2007
Trainer Mickey Burke will reportedly have a hearing before the Meadowlands' stewards Friday regarding his positive test for the Class 2 drug Lidocaine on his horse Doggone Incredible (a second-place finish) at that New Jersey track last December. Burke was the continent's leading dash-winning traine
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Black cat on cold night
February 06, 2007
Keystone Rodeo won the $37,500 Preferred and Black Cat Bone took the $35,000 Delaware Special on the coldest night of the season on Monday at Dover Downs. Last season's Horse of the Meet, Keystone Rodeo was at the top of his game in the feature. Brad Hanners pulled the Western Hanover 7 year old
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Devan aims for Lady Godiva
February 06, 2007
Fresh off her resounding victory in her inaugural start at the Meadowlands on Feb. 1, Devan Miller will be among the participants when Monticello Raceway presents its fifth edition of its Lady Godiva Pace Wednesday, Feb. 14, a race which features the driving talents of the gentle sex. Miller, jus
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Charity benefit underway
February 06, 2007
New Vocations ninth annual stallion and merchandise auction will be held in conjunction with the winter Blooded Horse Sale February 12 and 13 in Delaware, Ohio, and featured items offered in a silent auction format include a breeding to top trotting sire Conway Hall, a custom painted Blackjack Sheri
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Dean celebrates, mourns
February 06, 2007
The past weekend was the best of times and the worst of times for James “Friday” Dean as the Ontario-based trainer, who winters at Southern Oaks Training Center in central Florida, garnered O’Brien trophies for Doonbeg and Domitian Hanover Saturday night, one day after learning his friend and former
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