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Load The Dice Romps
February 25, 2007
On the biggest stage in Florida harness racing Load The Dice put on a show for the ages winning the $157,500 final of the ninth annual Isle of Capri Pacing Series in 1:49.3 at Pompano Park Saturday to become the fastest horse in the 43-year history of the Pompano Beach oval. Driven from post fiv
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Tweedle Dum Sweeps
February 25, 2007
World record holder Tweedle Dum continued his Pompano Park supremacy on Saturday, winning the $77,800 Mack Lobell Trotting Series Final in 1:55.1 to sweep the three-race series. Driven from post six by Walter Ross, Jr., Tweedle Dum was parked in second-place through an opening quarter in :27.2 w
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Saratoga John wins Hopeful
February 25, 2007
Driver Steve Smith used patience with Saratoga John to win the $46,500 Hopeful Series final for 3-year-old pacing colts in 1:57 at Yonker Raceway Saturday night. Saratoga John, the 9-5 second choice in the field of seven (Real Yankee was a judges' scratch), inherited post position two, and Smit
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Zeron sidelined by ORC
February 25, 2007
Woodbine trainer-driver Rick Zeron is the latest trainer to have a positive test for aminorex, and he wasn't the only top Woodbine horseman to sit on the sidelines Saturday night as driver Mark MacDonald was also out of action for reasons described as "lack of fitness." Zeron, who has been the le
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Tiger Tinch top Senior
February 25, 2007
Tiger Tinch [$42.00, $10.00, $6.80] split horses in the final strides to pull off the upset in the $76,000 Senior Trendsetter final Sunday afternoon at the Meadowlands. Driver Tim Tetrick, the current leading dash winning driver in North America, was in the sulky for the 1:51.4 mile. In the four-hor
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Manzi doubles in H&G splits
February 25, 2007
Hall of Fame driver Cat Manzi picked up a pair of wins in the opening round of the Horse and Groom Series on Sunday afternoon at the Meadowlands. In the first of three $20,000 divisions, American Lane [$22.80, $5.00, $3.80] scored in 1:55 for Manzi and trainer Homer Hochstetler. The gelded son o
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Glidemaster Takes Honor
February 25, 2007
Trotting Triple Crown winner Glidemaster was named 2006 Horse of the Year by the U.S. Harness Writers Association at the annual Dan Patch Awards dinner Sunday at the Borgata Hotel Casino in Atlantic City. The winner of a trotting single-season record $1.9 million, Glidemaster got 119 votes to defeat
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