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Tioga ready for NY State Fair races
August 09, 2007
Tioga Downs will disburse more than $1 million in purses during the two-weekend New York State Fair meet that begins this Saturday. New York-bred 2- and 3-year-old trotters and pacers will compete for more than $800,000 in State Fair purses over the five days and the $225,000 Dr. Harry M. Zweig Memo
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Broadway Hall colt trots to 1:56.3 victory
August 09, 2007
Production, a strapping son of first-crop stallion Broadway Hall, shattered The Meadows' track record for freshman trotting colts Wednesday night, despite racing wide while on the lead. His time of 1:56.3 eclipsed the old mark of 1:58 held jointly by Uncle Vernon and Mr. Pine Chip.   Producti
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Paquet wins four at the Rock
August 09, 2007
Fern Paquet Jr. posed for a quartet of winner's circle pictures at Rockingham Park on Wednesday after he drove horses to victory in four of the 10 races on the afternoon card.   Paquet not only scored, but he did so with the longest shots on the board in two of the first three races. Putnam O
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Donato Hanover likely headed to Yonkers Trot
August 09, 2007
David Scharf told harnessracing.com Thursday morning that he expects Hambletonian winner Donato Hanover to be entered in the upcoming Yonkers Trot at Yonkers Raceway. “If the draw was today, he’d be in,” said Scharf of the second jewel of trotting’s Triple Crown which has eliminations scheduled for
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Harrah's Chester's Colonial Trot draws 21
August 09, 2007
Twenty-one 3-year-old colt trotters have been entered for the Colonial Trot at Harrah’s Chester on Sunday afternoon, divided into three $75,000 divisions. Among the entries is Primary As, Manfinity, Hitchiker, Bayside Volo, Don’t Blink Twice and Monkey Bones.   The competition figures to
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