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Vivid Photo favored in Colonial's Patriot Trot
October 09, 2007
The 2005 Hambletonian winner Vivid Photo will make his annual pilgrimage to New Kent in seeking a new track and world record for the third straight year in the second annual $100,000 Patriot Invitational Trot Saturday at Colonial Downs. Vivid Photo won the inaugural edition of the Patriot l
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Favorites win in OSS 2CP Gold elims
October 09, 2007
The big guns delivered impressively in Monday night's pair of $55,156(C) Ontario Sires Stakes Gold eliminations for 2-year-old colt and gelding pacers at Mohawk Racetrack as Keystone Horatio won in 1:51 and Deuce Seelster scored in 1:53. Both were heavily favored in their respective spli
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Temptation breaks Colonial mark; Braden wins three
October 09, 2007
Robert Cooper Stables LLC’s Temptation shattered one of Colonial Downs’ oldest track records with sizzling frontstepping score in 1:49.1 Monday. Temptation’s time bested Mr. Mikey’s 1:49.3 clocking, the track and world record for 4-year-old gelding pacers on a greater than one-mile track since July
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No faking this win in Harrington Open
October 09, 2007
Martin Scharf's Fake Denario N, driven by Tim Tetrick, made his Harrington Raceway debut a successful one Monday with a 1:52.3 win in the $26,000 Open. Trained by Josh Green, the 7-year-old Fake Left gelding earned his ninth win of the year as his seasonal earnings ballooned to more than
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Flanigen nearing 3,000 wins
October 09, 2007
He was just a kid when he broke into the harness racing business and after two years of driving reinsman Jack Flanigen only had won eight races, but 23 years later the 41-year-old native of Buffalo is nearing a milestone most drivers can only dream of: 3,000 lifetime wins.   “Jackie
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