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Do a double flip at Dover
April 02, 2007
Blue Swimmer A and Menno Boy won the $20,000 Delaware winners-over co-features at Dover Downs on Sunday while three colt and two filly $20,000 Delaware Standardbred Breedders Fund (DSBF) second-leg paces concluded the preliminary rounds. The sports and the track's leading driver, Tim Tetrick, won
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First foal for 2004 HOY
April 02, 2007
Rainbow Blue, voted the 2004 Horse of the Year by the U.S. Harness Writers Association, delivered her first foal Sunday night, April 1, at Vieux Carre Farm in Gettsyburg, Pa. Co-owner George Teague Jr. told harnessracing.com Monday morning that he received a phone call from farm owner Dr. John Eglof
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Eric Ledford wins in Hungary
April 02, 2007
After a year away from the sulky, Eric Ledford drove again on Saturday—in Budapest, Hungary—and won twice in seven starts. Ledford, who recently accepted a $9,000 fine and one-year suspension (with credit for time served) from the New Jersey Commission after being arrested March 31, 2006, with his f
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Barasch honored by writers
April 02, 2007
At the recent meeting of the U.S. Harness Writers it was unanimously voted to rename the Breakthrough Award, which annually honors a non-trainer/driver for early career accomplishments, after the legendary Lew “'Tootie” Barasch, who died last year at age 90. Barasch, a former sportswriter for the
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Hambo winner returns
April 02, 2007
Although trainer-driver and co-owner Roger Hammer stated last Friday he planned on scratching 2005 Hambletonian winner Vivid Photo out of his 2007 debut race at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs on Monday, he decided to start his star trotter and the result was a 1:55 win in the $20,000 Open. Hammer to
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Aminorex link found?
April 02, 2007
The Canadian Pari-Mutuel Agency (CPMA) on Monday issued a memorandum regarding the rash of aminorex positives in Ontario and that there could be a possible connection to the adminstration of the deworming medication levamisole. The following is the statement issued by the CPMA: Following an un
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