News Archive

Will Tom Ridge's 1:50.2 world record fall?
August 28, 2007
Hambletonian winner Donato Hanover, fresh off a 1:51.3 qualifying tightener at The Red Mile, has drawn post four for Saturday’s $600,000 World Trotting Derby at Du Quoin, Ill. With two $30,000 supplemental entries—Anderberg and Prayer I Am—Donato Hanover will have eight challengers for the trophy.
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Ready To Win sets Harrah's Chester record
August 28, 2007
The Monday card at Harrah's Chester featured six divisions of Pennsylvania Sire Stakes action, with 2-year-old pacing fillies in the limelight.  Ready To Win ($2.40) and driver Yannick Gingras proved most impressive, pacing the mile in 1:53.1, a track record for freshman filly pacers. Befo
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Conditions still ideal at Harrington
August 28, 2007
Scott Dillon's Ideal Conditions ($2.80, Tim Tetrick) continued his stellar 5-year-old campaign with a 1:52.2 win in a $20,000 winners-over event Monday at Harrington Raceway. The Steve LeBlanc trainee was claimed for $50,000 on July 14, and earned his second straight win, increasing his seasonal
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Happy Ticket sets Yonkers mark
August 28, 2007
A scant 48 hours after his owned and trained Green Day won the $644,770 final of the Yonkers Trot, Jim Raymer saw his owned and trained freshman trotting filly Happy Ticket set a track record as part of Monday night's $248,025 New York Sire Stakes Mike Cohen at Yonkers Raceway. The event honored the
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Magical Mike to be at Delaware
August 28, 2007
The 1994 Little Brown Jug champion Magical Mike will visit the Delaware, Ohio County Fairgrounds for five afternoons during the 2007 Grand Circuit meeting.  Magical Mike will stand in a stall in the Jugette barn beginning Sunday afternoon, Sept. 16 through Thursday, Sept. 20. Magical Mike,
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Inaugural PA Preferred Sale averages $7,382
August 28, 2007
Stogie Hanover, an Andover Hall colt, brought a bid of $50,000 to top the Standardbred Horse Sales Company’s inaugural Pa Preferred Yearling Sale Monday, Aug. 27, at the Pennsylvania State Farm Show complex in Harrisburg, Pa. With 217 of the cataloged 224 yearlings going through the sales ring, the
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Nordin returns to Breeders Crown stage
August 28, 2007
The blue, gold and white colors of Team Nordin were a familiar sight across North American racetracks in the 1980s. Patriarch Soren and sons Jan and Ulf were at the forefront of the Swedish "invasion" of North American trotting and produced scores of champions that stocked trophy cases on both sides
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Guida, Coon, Prince, Janoff voted into Hall
August 28, 2007
Mega-owner Lou Guida and Chuck Coon, the "guru" of harness track design and maintenance, have been elected to the Living Hall of Fame of harness racing, the sport’s highest honor, in voting conducted by the U.S. Harness Writers Association. Guida received more than the necessary 75 percent fr
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