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Stormont Northstar shines in 60th win
August 16, 2007
Bob Stevenson Inc. and J&E Stable's Stormont Northstar ($27.80, Eddie Davis Jr.) won his 60th lifetime race Wednesday at Harrington Raceway with a 2:00.4 victory. The 13-year-old Brisco Hanover gelding overcame post eight and held off late-charging Tug River Man for the win. It was his 27th win
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Raymers hoping to find Yonkers green with Green Day
August 16, 2007
Nevele Pride winner Green Day was forced to watch the Hambletonian from the sidelines as he was not eligible, but with conditions providing for supplemental entries into the Yonkers Trot he will now get his chance to win a jewel of trotting’s Triple Crown.   Jim and Mary Raymer have paid the
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Sires stakes action at Indy Downs
August 16, 2007
Indiana Downs played host to four Indiana Sires Stakes contests Wednesday, August 15. With the cancellation of racing one week earlier, and the inability to reschedule the third round of ISS competition for freshman trotters, purses for each division jumped from the normal $12,000 to $24,000. Two c
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***New*** Wire To Wire
August 16, 2007
Andrew Cohen's latest Wire to Wire discusses the decision by Donato Hanover's connections to skip the Yonkers Trot--and pursuit of the trotting Triple Crown. Cohen thinks the subject is worthy of debate, and he also spoke with David Scharf, one of the colt's owners, about the decision to r
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Big Vernon card on Thursday night
August 16, 2007
Vernon Downs will host one of the best race cards ever over the Miracle Mile Thursday night, Aug. 16 as some of the top pacing mares and open trotters in the world will go to the post in the $154,000 Credit Winner Trot and the $124,000 Artiscape for pacing mares. Post time for the 12-race card is 6:
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Field set for top race for 3 year olds in Sweden
August 16, 2007
The E3, one of the top sprinter—one-mile races—for 3 year olds in Sweden, will be contested Saturday, Aug. 19, at the Sundbyholm track in Eskilstuna, and all of the 12 starters are by American-blooded sires.   The winner of the E3 will earn a purse of approximately $115,000.   Post—Hor
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Freshman filly hoping to craft NJSS victory
August 16, 2007
McArts N Crafts, winner of the Sweetheart Pace two weeks ago, joins 11 other 2-year-old pacing fillies, split into two divisions, in New Jersey Sire Stakes action on Saturday afternoon at Freehold Raceway. It is the opening leg for the 12 freshman fillies, who will go postward in a pair of $28,00
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Battle of the Brandywine set to return Sunday
August 16, 2007
After an 18-year lapse, the $250,000 Battle of the Brandywine Pace will be restarted Sunday with some of the nation's finest 3-year-old pacers competing at Harrah's Chester Casino & Racetrack.   Inaugurated in 1960, the "Battle" reigned as the most popular stakes race at Brandywine R
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Adios simulcast room opens Thursday at The Meadows
August 16, 2007
The Meadows' temporary on-track simulcast and racing facility will open its doors on Thursday. The facility is located trackside in the area known as The Adios Room. Doors will open at 11:00 a.m. daily, seven days a week.   The temporary facility spans 7,500 square feet and
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Springfield postpones Thursday to 12 noon on Friday
August 16, 2007
Thursday afternoon's card at Springfield, Ill., has been postponed until Friday because of a thunderstorm and persistent rain. The program, which is highlighted by six $50,000 State Fair finals, will go postward at 12 noon on Friday.
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Confederation Cup draws 20
August 16, 2007
Twenty 3-year-old colt pacers have been entered for Sunday's Confederation Cup at Flamboro Downs, including a pair of $25,000 supplemental nominees. There will be three $50,000(C) eliminations with the top three finishers in each returning later that program for the $548,500(C) final.   Here
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Will Anderberg start in Yonkers Trot?
August 16, 2007
Anderberg, fresh off a 1:56.4 win in an Arden Downs division at The Meadows last Friday night, is scheduled to start in the second elimination for the Yonkers Trot this Saturday. But a staking service is trying to get an injunction to keep the horse from racing because of a financial dispute.
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14 colts entered in Zweig at Tioga
August 16, 2007
Hambletonian starter Flirtin Man will headline the 33rd edition of the Dr. Harry M. Zweig Memorial Trot on Sunday at Tioga Downs. The event, worth a combined $321,350 in purses, attracted 14 colts and 12 fillies for two divisions of each sex.   Flirtin Man will start from post six in ra
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