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Dover hosts DSBF preps, Tetrick now at 999
November 09, 2007
Sheisaknockout and B Bad chalked up wins in $10,000 Delaware Standardbred Breeders Fund (DSBF) prep pace features Thursday at Dover Downs while Tim Tetrick is now within one win of reaching the 1,000 plateau after posting a single score with Amber Blue Chip in a conditioned pace for fillies and ma
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A $666 winner at Harrah's Chester
November 09, 2007
Owen Franklin’s Georgian Bay, sent off at odds of 332-1, established a Harrah’s Chester Casino & Racetrack record for highest win payoff in capturing Thursday’s second race.  The 3-year-old daughter of Island Fantasy parlayed a second-over trip for Jonathan Roberts into a three-quarter leng
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Owners of Corleone Kosmos want a shot at Donato
November 09, 2007
The racing season might be winding down, but the owners of Corleone Kosmos are game for one more big race this season for their free-for-all trotter--if it could be a winner-take-all showdown with Donato Hanover.   Arthur and Scott Rudolf and Bernard Owen, who bought Corleone Kosmos as a year
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Star filly trotter Timeless Winner found dead
November 09, 2007
Delaware-based trainer George Teague told harnessracing.com Friday morning that he found his 2-year-old filly trotter Timeless Winner dead in the field early Thursday, two days before she was slated to go postward as the 2-1 morning-line choice in the $194,550 Matron final at Dover Downs.   “
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Tell All wins Mohawk qualifier
November 09, 2007
Little Brown Jug and North America Cup winner Tell All posted a 1:55.2 winning qualifying effort Friday morning at Mohawk Racetrack, leading from gate to wire over three rivals over a track rated as “good.”   Regular driver Jody Jamieson was in the sulky behind the 3-year-old son of Real Desi
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Donato wins qualifier, Always A Virgin also scores
November 09, 2007
In a final tune-up before the upcoming Breeders Crown, Donato Hanover coasted through a qualifier Friday morning at Gaitway Farms in New Jersey, leading throughout the mile to score in 1:54.4. The 3-year-old son of Andover Hall, who has won 19 straight races and is unbeaten in 11 starts this year, w
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Two-time Breeders Crown champ sold at Harrisburg
November 09, 2007
World champion and two-time Breeders Crown champion Mystical Sunshine was purchased for $525,000 Friday at the Standardbred Horse Sale's mixed auction in Harrisburg, and the 3-year-old trotting filly Godiva Hall was hammered down for $285,000.   Peninsula Farm’s Carter Duer, acting as ag
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Tetrick wins 1,000th race at Mohegan Sun at Pocono
November 09, 2007
Tim Tetrick became the third drive to reach 1,000 wins in a single season Friday afternoon, joining Walter Case Jr. (1,077 in 1998) and Tony Morgan (1,004 in 2006) in the exclusive club with a victory behind Blow Em Away in the fourth race at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs.   Tetrick, who turns
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Breeders Crown supplements due Monday
November 09, 2007
The countdown has begun on entries for the $4.6 million Breeders Crown events, to be raced Saturday, Nov. 24, at the Meadowlands, with supplemental declarations for the four Breeders Crown 3-year-old races due and payable on Monday, Nov. 12, 2007 at 12 noon in the racing secretary's office at t
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Crown entrants subject to out-of-competition testing
November 09, 2007
All entrants in the $4.6 million Breeders Crown 2 –and 3-year-old events, to be raced Saturday, Nov. 24, at the Meadowlands, may be subject to the New Jersey Racing Commission and the Hambletonian Society’s out-of-competition testing rules as a condition of entry in the Breeders Crown races. In
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