News Archive

Boulder Creek surpasses $3 mil with win over Lis Mara
July 23, 2007
Boulder Creek, the old warhorse with $3 million in career earnings and Tim Tetrick, the young driver with magic hands combined for a major stakes victory Sunday at Harrah's Chester, winning the inaugural $300,000 Ben Franklin Pace.   Boulder Creek, a 7-year-old gelding, responded to Tet
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Deuce dominates in OSS Gold final
July 23, 2007
The outside post 10 was no obstacle for Deuce Seelster Sunday night as he dominated his nine rivals in the first Ontario Sires Stakes Gold final of the season for 2-year-old colt and gelding pacers at Mohawk Racetrack. The son of Western Maverick, with Paul MacDonell at the controls, stopped
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Revenue freshman wins in Holland
July 23, 2007
Yoboko Bo Bo, a 2-year-old son of world-champion trotter Revenue, won the first freshman race of the year in Holland on Sunday, scoring in a mile rate of 2:05.2 at the Duindigt track in Holland.   Bred by John Bootsman's Boko Stable, Yoboko Bo Bo was driven by John de Leeuw for trainer P
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The west was won at Tioga
July 23, 2007
Won The West took the lone Tompkins-Geers division for 3-year old colt pacers Sunday at Tioga Downs with a front-end score for driver Greg Grismore in 1:54.1. The son of Western Hanover chalked up his 11th victory in 16 starts this season for owners Strollin Stable, William Robinson,
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Croghan receives stay from NJ Supreme Court
July 23, 2007
Trainer Ross Croghan appealed to the New Jersey State Supreme Court for a stay of his 180-day suspension for an elevated TCO2 test and, according to Harness Racing Communications, was granted that stay late Monday afternoon. The suspension was scheduled to begin Monday but the Su
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Southwind Lynx, Kinetic Yankee Jug favorites
July 23, 2007
Southwind Lynx, who won the $1 million Meadowlands Pace and $1 million Art Rooney, and Kinetic Yankee, whose biggest check this year came via a second-place finish in the $500,000 Hoosier Cup in late June, have been installed 7-1 co-favorites in the first of three Little Brown Jug Future wagers
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Vala Boko wins Mare Championship
July 23, 2007
Sweden's Mare Championship was won by the 4-year-old Vala Boko, a daughter of Alf Palema bred by Annika and John Bootsman's Boko Stables. She won as expected, scoring in a mile rate of 1:59.3 over 2,640 meters at the Axevalla track, and earned about $120,000.   With Jorma Kontio in the
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David Molski dies
July 23, 2007
David Molski, who bred and raced horses under the banner of Dreamlands Farms, died Friday, July 20, when he was stricken while driving his car near Birch Creek Farm in New Jersey. He was 62.   Born in Manhattan, N.Y., Molski spent most of his life in and around the Cream Ridge, N.J., area, wh
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Monticello-OTB Classic richest race in track history
July 23, 2007
On Tuesday afternoon, eight of the best older pacers in North America will lock horns in the $480,000 Monticello-OTB Classic, which will be the biggest purse race in the 50-year history of Monticello Raceway. Last Tuesday, in the eliminations, Ian Fromowitz and John Fielding’s Buckeye
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Running Book, Laughing Art win for owner, trainer, driver
July 23, 2007
The owner-trainer-driver combination of Antonio Chiaravalle, Bill Elliott and Mark MacDonald swept the two Monticello Gold Rush eliminations at Monticello Raceway Monday afternoon with Running Book in 1:54.1 and Laughing Art in 1:55.2 over a track rated sloppy. The $500,000 final will be raced next
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