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Drive All Night motors to PA fair final victory
October 10, 2007
Three of four favorites continued their winning ways in the second of two days of the $80,000 PA Sire Stakes Fair Championship races conducted at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs, with the fourth winner on this “all-colt” day a name well-known by Pennsylvania sports fans, if not particularly well-backed
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Freshman colt trotters set for Cardinal final
October 10, 2007
State-bred trotting colts were back in the spotlight on Tuesday night as 15 diagonally gaited 2 year olds battled in a pair of $7,500 Cardinal Stakes eliminations at Balmoral Park. The top five finishers in each division will be back next week to slug it out for $56,000.   In the first elimin
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2-year-old filly trotter Locksweeper wins in 1:54.3
October 10, 2007
Locksweeper demolished the Colonial Downs' track record and world record for 2-year-old trotting fillies on a greater-than-one-mile track Tuesday night with a 6 3/4-length win in 1:54.3 that swept 1998 Breeders Crown winner Musical Victory out of the record books. Locksweeper was dominant from s
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Snatch The Fortune fastest in DSBF splits
October 10, 2007
Five $20,000 divisions of the Delaware Standardbred Breeders Fund Stakes (DSBF) for 2-year-old pacing fillies were contested Tuesday at Harrington Raceway, with Clayton Goad and John Brown's Snatch The Fortune (Roger Plante Jr. 1:56.1) the fastest winner. Trainer George Teague won two divisions wi
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New Thoroughbred track proposed for metro Detroit
October 10, 2007
Michigander Jerry Campbell, a Thoroughbred owner who purchased Muskegon Harness Racecourse after it had closed several years ago and turned it into Great Lakes Downs Thoroughbred track, has submitted an application to build a new $142 million Thoroughbred racetrack and retail center outside metro De
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Meadows has new draw schedule
October 10, 2007
Tom Leasure, director of racing at The Meadows, has announced the following draw schedule for the racing that is scheduled to start at the Pittsburgh-area track on Wednesday, Oct. 17:    DRAW--RACE DAY Monday--Thursday Tuesday--Saturday Wednesday--Monday Thursday--Tuesday Fr
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Delaware not ready to test for anabolic steroids
October 10, 2007
The Delaware Harness Racing Commission (DHRC) held a meeting Wednesday morning to consider the Racing Medication and Testing Consortium’s (RMTC) model rule on anabolic steroids. After researching the topic, and attending conferences on the matter, the commissioners decided to not
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Reminder for Pennsylvania breeders
October 10, 2007
Pennsylvania breeders are reminded that they must send in a "180 Day Registration Form" to the Pennsylvania State Harness Racing Commission for every mare, every year, in order to have the mare’s foal eligible to generate Pennsylvania Standardbred Breeders Development Fund awards from the larger poo
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Field set for Courageous Lady at Northfield
October 10, 2007
Jugette champion Western Graduate headlines an outstanding field of nine 3-year-old filly pacers in Saturday’s Courageous Lady at Northfield Park. Western Graduate, who drew post 5 and will be driven by Yannick Gingras, is the 2-1 morning line race favorite, according to Director of Racing Gregg Kei
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Purse money withheld in Michigan Sire Stakes 'Goose Race'
October 10, 2007
Purse money for the $120,550 Michigan Sire Stakes final for 2-year-old filly trotters, which state officials had ordered re-raced after the first race was declared “no contest” when geese bothered two of the starters, has been withheld pending an appeal by the owners of the horse that won the f
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Two elims for Quillen Memorial at Harrington
October 10, 2007
Fifteen of the sport's top older horses have been entered for the $345,500 (est) Bobby Quillen Memorial Pace at Harrington Raceway, with two eliminations scheduled for this Saturday night prior to the Oct. 22 final. The final will offer the highest purse ever at Harrington and second highe
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Woodbine's request to cancel Sundays denied
October 10, 2007
The Ontario Racing Commission (ORC) has denied Woodbine Entertainment Group’s request to cancel eight Sundays of racing in November, although it said it would re-consider the final four Sundays after examining what transpires the first three Sundays that the track remains open in November. A s
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