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15-1 upset in Fla. feature
March 29, 2007
Trotting Matrix, a 15-1 longshot, spoiled the seasonal debut of stakes-winner Johnny Muscles while taking the $5,500 featured trot at Pompano Park on Wednesday in a career-best time of 1:55.3. Driven from post two by Donald Dupont, Trotting Matrix settled along the pylons in third place as the ra
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Secret Agent the man at DD
March 29, 2007
Two $20,000 Delaware Standardbred Breeders Fund races for 3-year-old colt trotters were contested Wednesday night at Dover Downs with Swissonian and Secret Agent coming up winners. In the first $20,000 prelim, Fred and Layhoon Bruner's Swissonian led from the start for a 1:59.2 victory. The sport
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Sweet kash won at Buffalo
March 29, 2007
Getting a perfect garden spot trip throughout the entire mile, Rosie’s Sweetie and reinsman Keith Kash Jr. won the $8,500 Fillies and Mares Open Pace Wednesday at Buffalo Raceway in a season’s best time of 1:56.4, to register her fourth win of the season for owner Todd Rosenberg of South Euclid, Ohi
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Two supplement to TCS
March 29, 2007
Trotter Elvis Cole and pacer Poppy Lustre N, both early season stalwarts at Dover Downs, have been supplemented to The Classic Series (TCS). Going into the Trotting Classic is Elvis Cole, a 5-year-old gelding who has found his best form in 2007, winning five of nine starts at Dover Downs for Ni
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VD to repay loans to open
March 29, 2007
Vernon Downs owner Jeff Gural has reportedly stated he plans on making $6 million in loan repayments by the New York Racing and Wagering Board's imposed deadline of April 2 and that the track will open on April 6 as scheduled--but with a caveat. Gural added that if the New York legisature does not g
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Gro the Jersey girl to beat
March 29, 2007
Gro aims for a series sweep in the $67,000 Jersey Girls Final for pacing fillies and mares on Thursday night at the Meadowlands. The 4-year-old daughter of Pro Bono Best earned the role of 2-1 morning line favorite in the featured fifth race after capturing both preliminary legs of the series. Tr
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Timesareachanging returns
March 29, 2007
Timesareachanging, who won the 2004 Little Brown Jug and has more than $1.4 million in career earnings, made his first appearance on the racetrack since last June on Wednesday, winning a qualifier at Balmoral Park in 1:58.3 for driver Brent Holland. Timesareachanging last started in a pari-mutuel
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**NEW**Wire To Wire
March 29, 2007
Spring is in the air and Andrew Cohen has plenty of love to spread around in his newest wire to wire column as he points out some of the good things harness racing has to look forward to in the coming weeks, whether it's action on the racetrack or the racetracks themselves, or a behind-the-scenes fe
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Brittany to stand trotter
March 29, 2007
Take the bloodlines of one of the greatest 2 and 3-year-old trotting fillies of all time, and combine that with a truly superior individual. The end result? The newest member of the Brittany Stallion Management roster--Master Glide! It was announced today that Master Glide, the unraced full broth
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Campbell wins in return
March 29, 2007
John Campbell returned to the sulky Thursday morning in three qualifiers at the Meadowlands, five months after severely breaking his leg in a Breeders Crown elimination. All three horses Campbell directed were trotters, including the $856,000-winning veteran Hez Striking. The 8-year-old Hez Strik
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Slots bill passes Ind. Senate
March 29, 2007
A proposal that would allow slot machines at Hoosier Park and Indiana Downs cleared another significant hurdle Thursday, March 29. House Bill 1835, which would permit up to 1,500 machines at each facility, was passed by the full Senate by a 27-21 vote. The measure now moves back to the Indiana House
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Power outage at Big M
March 29, 2007
A power outage at the Meadowlands racetrack forced the cancellation of the Thursday night live racing program. The outage affected just the racetrack at the sports complex as a sold-out Justin Timberlake concert at adjacent Continental Airlines Arena continued. Meadowlands handicapper Dave Brower
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