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Wild Wind fastest in PASS
June 29, 2007
Wild Wind breezed through the Lightning Lane to capture the fastest division of a Pennsylvania Sire Stakes for 3-year-old colt trotters on Thursday night at The Meadows, posting a 1:55.4 clocking, and Monkey Bones (1:56.3) and Fraternity Party (1:58.1) took other splits.   The $89,081 stakes,
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Freshman pair win Historics at Meadowlands
June 29, 2007
Ray Schnittker scored a driving and training double with a pair of talented 2 year olds on Thursday night at the Meadowlands, capturing a division of the Goshen Cup with Riggins in 1:54.3 and a split of the E.H. Harriman Cup with Deweycheatumnhow in 1:59.   Schnittker fired Riggins to a five
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Enough Talk sets Vernon trot mark
June 29, 2007
Enough Talk let his actions tell the story en route to a 1:53.3 all-time, all-age track record trotting performance, set by Personal Banner in the 1996 Breeders Crown, in the $10,000 eighth event on Thursday night (June 28) at Vernon Downs.   Brian Mattison did the teaming for trainer Pa
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Vivid Photo ready for Titan Cup
June 29, 2007
After battling an infection in his foot earlier this year, Vivid Photo is back on track and ready to pounce in the $240,000 Titan Cup on Saturday night at the Meadowlands. The 2005 Hambletonian winner drew post three in the Titan Cup.   Driver, trainer and co-owner Roger Hammer will be in the
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Trainers dish on Haughton starters
June 29, 2007
In addition to the Titan Cup, the Saturday card at the Meadowlands also features a pair of $50,000 eliminations for the $700,000 (est.) William R. Haughton Memorial. The top five finishers in the elims, races five and six, advance to the William R. Haughton Memorial Final on Saturday, July 7. Severa
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Rained-out Debutante purse divided
June 29, 2007
Harnessracing.com has learned from the Meadowlands' director of racing Tad Stockman that the $38,000 purse from the rained-out division of the Debutante for 2-year-old filly pacers Wednesday night will be divided equally among those eligible for that split. The first two divisions were held before a
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Hennessey on the slow road to Goshen
June 29, 2007
Wally Hennessey may have just 48 hours left before he leaves the ranks of harness racing regulars and is formally inducted into the Living Hall of Fame, but his trip to Goshen won’t happen until he completes his seven drives on Friday night at Pompano Park.   “All of my family isn’t coming in
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The show goes on at Lake Odessa
June 29, 2007
“The Show Must Go On!” was never more evident this week at the Lake Odessa Fair in Lake Odessa, Mich., as fair officials first had to work through the reneging of a carnival contract and then a Thursday rain delay that forced 29 harness races to be contested Friday.   Fair officials reportedl
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Hawthorne: Fan's c'mon down, the strike is over!
June 29, 2007
Hawthorne Race Course has settled its contract dispute with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers that represents its mutuel clerks and will be open to the betting public beginning Saturday. Hawthorne had conducted its first six nights of its six-week summer harness meeting without any
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Dan Patch champ returns as a champ
June 29, 2007
Donato Hanover, last year’s 2-year-old colt trotting champion, did not disappoint in his long-awaited 2007 debut, rolling to a 1:54.1 victory in the $85,000 Historic Dickerson Cup on Friday night at the Meadowlands. Co-owner David Scharf, in an interview on TVG after, believes Donato's best asset is
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