News Archive

Buffalo hosts NYSS frosh-trot openers
July 06, 2007
Buffalo Raceway will host the first round of New York Sire Stakes for 2-year-old trotters this weekend with seven divisions of colts facing off on Friday evening and six divisions of fillies mixing it up on Sunday afternoon. The freshman battles will be punctuated with a fireworks display at the Ham
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NYSS sophomore trots at Yonkers Monday
July 06, 2007
The New York Sire Stakes ladies make their second seasonal visit to Yonkers Raceway Monday night, this time the 3-year-old trotters with the $293,566 Mike Cipriani, named for Yonkers' long-time, award-winning photographer, with all but the third division worth $58,933 each (that division is worth $5
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Idle Hour upsets Dali in PASS
July 06, 2007
Unperturbed by 1-9 favorite Dali leaving inside him, Idle Hour saved his brush for the stretch to produce a stunning upset--and a stakes record--in a division of the $126,140 Pennsylvania Sire Stakes for 2-year-old colt pacers on Thursday night at The Meadows. The stake, known as the Albatros
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Marcus Miller, 18, wins first-ever pari-mutuel race
July 06, 2007
Eighteen-year-old Marcus Miller, the son of veteran trainer Erv Miller, scored his first-ever pari-mutuel victory Wednesday night at Hawthorne Race Course, directing the 3-year-old pacing gelding Arty Ryan to a 25-1 upset in 1:53.4.   Marcus won his first two drives in June of 2004 (at age 15
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**NEW**Wire To Wire
July 06, 2007
Andrew Cohen made his first-ever trek to Goshen last weekend for the Hall of Fame festivities, but before he made the trip to upstate New York he talked to Pennsylvania State Harness Racing Commission executive secretary Anton Leppler about the now-you-see-it, now-you-don't detention policy tha
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Brett Miller suspended one year
July 06, 2007
Driver Brett Miller has been suspended for one year and fined $1,000 by the Ohio State Racing Commission after testing positive for morphine in a urine sample collected May 11 at Northfield Park. Miller, 33, has not driven a horse since June 18 at Northfield. The suspension is scheduled to run from
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Guida recovering from infection scare
July 06, 2007
Harness racing icon Lou Guida is recovering from a serious staph infection and reaction to the medicine used to treat the infection following knee surgery, a condition that became so dire a priest was called in to administer last rites.   Guida's surgery took place at Indian River Medical C
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Rosecroft to change from Mondays to Tuesdays
July 06, 2007
Beginning on Tuesday, July 24, Rosecroft Raceway will alter their live racing schedule from Mondays and Saturdays to Tuesdays and Saturdays. Post times will remain the same: first post on Tuesday evenings will be at 5:35 p.m. and on Saturday racing will begin at 7:20 p.m. No change in the draw sch
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Trotting sire Donerail heading to Europe
July 06, 2007
Donerail, the sire of $962,395 winner Spellbound Hanover and 2001 Kentucky Futurity champion Chasing Tail, has been sold to Finnish interests and will soon be leaving the U.S. to stand at stud in Sweden. The 15-year-old son of Valley Victory has stood at stud at Hanover Shoe Farms since his retireme
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Heart rates studied at Mohawk
July 06, 2007
The action is always exciting at Mohawk, but this summer another reason to get your heartrate climbing is that theWoodbine Entertainment Group and the University of Guelph's Ontario Veterinary College are teaming up for a landmark study on the heart rhythms of horses under actual racing condi
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A 7-7-07 Rockingham wedding for Marsh & Mayo
July 06, 2007
There will be wedding bells along with starting gate bells at Rockingham Park on Saturday--7-7-07--when Marcia Mayo and Ron Marsh tie the knot in the winner's circle following the afternoon races. "We've been going together for two years and she decided last year that she wanted to get marrie
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Possess The Magic barely makes final
July 06, 2007
The eliminations for the Del Miller Memorial and Stanley Dancer Memorial got underway with the first race at the Meadowlands Friday and controversy quickly ensued when the judges placed second-place finisher Possess The Magic fourth in the first Miller elim, prompting trainer Ron Gurfein to issue a
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