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Striking Pockets, Fighting Filly fastest in trotting series open
January 08, 2008
Southwind Renata extended her win streak to three with a sharp 1:57.1 victory in one of three $20,000 divisions in Monday night's opening round of the Lifetime Dream Trotting Series for 4-year-old mares at Woodbine. The other divisions went to Striking Pockets and Fighting Filly, both in identical
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Indian Hill Rocket turns tables at Pompano
January 08, 2008
After finishing second to Gale Warning in last week’s Pompano Park trotting feature, Indian Hill Rocket turned the tables on that rival when capturing Monday’s $14,000 Open Handicap Trot at the South Florida oval in 1:58.   Starting from post four with Kevin Wallis at the lines, Indian
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Warm weather leads to Hot Lather
January 08, 2008
Unseasonably mild temperatures led to extra fast mile won by Hot Lather, on Monday at Dover Downs. Brian Sears drove five winners and Tony Morgan three. Sears wheeled Up Front Jerry into the lead after the quarter and then played follow the leader on the way to a 1:50.2 triumph in the $35,000 Pr
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Breeder-owner Lloyd Mathieson dies
January 08, 2008
D. Lloyd Mathieson, 90, of  Harrisburg, Pa., and Mathieson Farm in Hershey, formerly of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, died Wednesday, Jan. 2, at his home in Harrisburg.   In recent years Mr. Mathieson bred and raced such top open-class horses as Seagull Hershey p,4, 1:52 (
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USDA supports protecting horses bound for slaughter
January 08, 2008
The American Horse Council has told the U.S. Department of Agriculture that it supports the Department’s proposal to amend the regulations governing the commercial transportation of equines for slaughter. The proposed changes would extend the regulatory protections provided by the Commercial Tr
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