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NYSS kicks off Wednesday
June 05, 2007
The New York Sire Stakes season kicks off at Saratoga Gaming and Raceway on Wednesday evening with $340,917 in purses for the 3-year-old trotting filly set. A total of six divisions will head to post for the first of the six-leg summer-long series that travels across the state.   Owner-
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Soph pacer on a roll
June 05, 2007
Allan Pullman, Barry Glickstein and Eddie Davis' Sway Charles ($3.60) won his sixth straight race and continued his impressive 3-year-old campaign with a 1:53.1 win at Harrington Raceway Monday. Driven by Allan Davis, the 3-year-old Real Artist colt assumed command after the half mile and held of
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Blanket finish at Pompano
June 05, 2007
 A compact field of five trotters assembled for Monday’s feature race at Pompano Park, and the highly contentious $15,500 winners-over Trot resulted in a tight three-horse win photo with Railee Possible holding off Muscular and C Le Noir to score his third consecutive victory.   Driven
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June is Michigan's month
June 05, 2007
Michigan Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm has declared June as “Michigan Horse Racing Month” to honor Michigan’s 74 years of horse racing history.   Michigan has six licensed pari-mutuel racetracks, including four harness tracks (Hazel Park, Northville, Swartz Creek and Jackson), one Thoroughbred tr
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Amateur final at Big M
June 05, 2007
Their day jobs include university dean, IT operations, photographer and human resources manager, but on Wednesday night 10 members of the American Harness Drivers Club will don their driving colors to compete in their $5,000 Spring Pacing Series final at the Meadowlands. The one-mile pace will take
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23 vie for $1.5 mil final
June 05, 2007
Three $50,000 eliminations for the $1.5 million(C) Pepsi North America Cup have been drawn for Saturday night’s program at Mohawk Racetrack. The top three finishers in each elim plus one fourth-place finisher will return for the rich final Saturday, June 16.   Elim 1 PP - Horse - Listed Driv
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Cal incentive plan OK'd
June 05, 2007
Cal-Expo (Sacramento Harness Association) and the California Harness Horsemen’s Association (CHHA) have announced the details of their 2007 Horse Incentive Program, and it calls for horses that have raced in pari-mutuel races in other jurisdictions to receive between $1,000 and $2,500 upon raci
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Purse increase at Vernon
June 05, 2007
Vernon Downs has announced that the track will increase purses by 15 percent across the board effective Tuesday, June 12. In addition, the New York State Racing and Wagering Board has approved a request by Vernon’s sister track, Tioga Downs, to add live racing on Wednesday, July 4.   Post tim
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