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Prime minister also rules
February 09, 2007
The Junior Trendsetter Series for three-year-old pacing colts and geldings kicked off with four $12,500 divisions on Thursday night at the Meadowlands, with the fastest split going to Be Bad Bill in 1:54.4 for the team of driver Cat Manzi and trainer Joe Hundertpfund Jr. The son of Badlands Hanover
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Wdb Pick 7 pays $211,408
February 09, 2007
Stepaside Larry came charging late to win Thursday's ninth race at Woodbine, sending one happy racing fan home with the entire Pick 7 pool of $211,408.75(C). The sharp and lucky handicapper bought the winning ticket at a SAM machine on-track at Woodbine. In the Pick 7, bettors must correctly sele
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He wants to defend title
February 09, 2007
He Wants It All, the two-time defending Isle of Capri Pace Final winner, and Load The Dice, the recent Presidential Series Final runner-up, headline a field of 10 pacers that will line up for the $50,000 first leg of the Isle of Capri Pacing Series, which will go as the fourth race from Pompano Park
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Wood back from Ghana
February 09, 2007
Ken Wood, the popular Dover Downs horseman, has returned from his third trip to Ghana where he personally is continuing a humanitarian project to enable natives to have plentiful water. Last fall, Wood, a longtime horse owner and trainer and driver from Easton, Md., traveled to Ghana with equipment
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Fire in the Cal Expo rain
February 09, 2007
The track came up sloppy, which she loves, and her archrival broke before the start, which she had to love, so Benn's Fire romped to an easy victory in the $8,500 Invitational Handicap Trot on a wet Thursday night at Cal-Expo. It was Benn's Fire's 57th win over her career. In advance of starting
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Bouncing to fourth straight
February 09, 2007
Bouncing Hanover notched her fourth straight win in Thursday's single $17,000(C) division of the Miss Vera Bars Pacing Series at Woodbine, crossing the wire in 1:56.2 for driver Mark MacDonald. MacDonald sent the daughter of Cam's Card Shark to the lead early and led the rest of the route, holdin
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Big M Pick 6 tops $58,000
February 09, 2007
A quartet of longshots, including a $77 winner, on Thursday night helped produce a Pick-6 carryover of $58,491.60 for Friday’s card at the Meadowlands. There was a $25,000 Pick-6 carryover entering the Thursday card that attracted an additional $55,770 in Pick-6 wagering. The Pick 6 unfurled wi
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No elims for Windy City
February 09, 2007
Maywood Park’s 2007 stake schedule for its 61st consecutive harness racing season on the Chicago circuit will have some notable changes including eliminating eliminations for the Windy City Pace. Windy City Pace Night has been moved up a month over the track’s 2006 showcase evening and the 24th c
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2X2X1X2X2X2X1=211Gs
February 09, 2007
It is widely perceived that when WEG's Pick 7 wager starts to produce large carryovers and bloated pools, it takes either a syndicate or a very deep/expensive ticket to strike it rich, so when a lucky and prudent handicapper bucked the trend Thursday evening at Woodbine, it proved that anyone can hi
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Carlspur's journey back
February 09, 2007
Last year veteran pacer Carlspur was Monticello Raceway’s Horse of the Year and not long after his owners received the award the pacer was stricken with an extremely bad case of colic and was rushed to New Bolton Center in greater Philadelphia for emergency surgery. After a two-plus hour surgery wh
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Duo built Ford tough
February 09, 2007
Trainer Mark Ford will send out the duo of Predator DVM and Alastor Hanover in the opening leg of the Aquarius Series for 4-year-old open pacers on Saturday night at the Meadowlands. The $35,000 Aquarius divisions are carded as races three and 10 on the card. The top 10 money earners from the first
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USHWA--2-week warning
February 09, 2007
You’ll have to hurry–there are only two weeks left until the U.S. Harness Writers Association’s annual “Night Of Stars” awards banquet on Sunday, Feb. 25, at the Borgata Hotel in Atlantic City! The stars of the sport of harness racing, both human and equine, receive their accolades on this festiv
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Burke hearing postponed
February 09, 2007
Trainer Mickey Burke's hearing with the Meadowlands' stewards Friday regarding his positive test on Doggone Incredible last December was postponed indefinitely at the request of Burke's attorney Howard Taylor. The horse tested positive for the Class 2 drug lidocaine, which a second test confirmed.
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TCS nominations now due
February 09, 2007
Nominations to the 2007 edition of The Classic Series (TCS) must be postmarked by Feb. 15 and mailed along with payment to The Hambletonian Society at 109 South Main St. Suite #18 , Cranbury, N.J. 08512. The Series returns to a spring/early summer schedule this season, beginning with the first $8
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