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Tetrick is USHWA's Rising Star, Elliott top trainer
December 20, 2007
Tim Tetrick, who came east at the end of last season as a hugely-promising but untested driver on the national scene, has parlayed a record total of dash victories into an earning of the Rising Star Award as voted by the U.S. Harness Writers Association, while Steve Elliott, 2007’s leader in trainin
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Khifra Hanover wins 16th of year in Dover feature
December 20, 2007
Khifra Hanover and Grand Photo returned to the win column in $22,000 Jr. Open Trot victories on Wednesday at Dover Downs. Julianna Edwards' Khifra Hanover secured her 16th victory of the year as Frank Milby took the Lindy Lane late blossoming 5 year old took the lead early and sped to a 1:5
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Simmichacha tangos in $80,000 series final at Chester
December 20, 2007
Rating off a pressured early pace then grinding out a first-over journey, Harold Brocklehurst’s Simmichacha ($10.40) proved victorious in the $80,000 final of the Delaware County late-closing series on the Wednesday afternoon card at Harrah’s Chester, closing through the final strides for a hal
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Meadowlands announces 2008 stakes dates
December 20, 2007
The $1.5 million Hambletonian on Saturday, Aug. 2, and $1 million Meadowlands Pace on Saturday, July 19, headline more than $14 million in stakes scheduled for the 2008 harness meet at the Meadowlands.   "From our popular Winter Series to the rich Championship Meet stakes of the summer, the M
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Danzig ready for career finale--again
December 20, 2007
It was all set. On Thursday, Dec. 13, the veteran trotter Danzig was to make his final trip to post at Monticello Raceway, but the best-laid plans of mice and men sometimes go astray. A heavy snowstorm in the Catskill Mountains on that day forced The Mighty M to cancel its Thursday ra
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WEG/OHHA reach one-year agreement
December 20, 2007
Woodbine Entertainment Group (WEG) proposed a one-year contract extension to the Ontario Harness Horse Association existing contract (OHHA) that was unanimously accepted by OHHA members at last night's meeting in Milton. For the past few months Woodbine and OHHA representatives have met in good
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Aminorex charges dropped in Ontario
December 20, 2007
The Ontario Racing Commission has reportedly dropped the charges against 11 Standardbred trainers who had Aminorex positives. Thursday's Globe And Mail said that although the trainers have been exonerated, the horses that received the positives will remain disqualified from the races involved a
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Daniel Maier found guilty of race fixing
December 20, 2007
The Sacramento Bee has reported that driver Daniel Maier was convicted of three felony counts Thursday in what is believed to be the first successful prosecution of a race-fixing case in California, while driver-trainer Todd Ratchford was cleared on three counts.   After two days of deli
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