News Archive

Nidya A captures Mares Open in Delaware
January 16, 2008
Nidya A broke out of a recent "bridesmaid" roll to score a 1:53 victory in the $26,000 Mares Open Handicap Pace Tuesday at Dover Downs. With five second-place finishes in her last six starts, Nidya A, overlooked at 8-1, stormed down the lane for Tim Tetrick to overtake leader Pacific Philly
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Pompano extends deadline for winter series
January 16, 2008
Pompano Park has extended the nomination date for its winter series of racing, with nominations for the $350,000 Isle of Capri Pacing Series, the $100,000 Frances Dodge Van Lennep Pacing Series for fillies and mares, and the $100,000 Mack Lobell Trotting Series to be received by Friday, Jan. 25. Nom
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Bartlett wins three pairs of races
January 16, 2008
Newcomer Jason Bartlett put on a driving clinic at Monticello Raceway on Tuesday afternoon when he reined six winners on the card. Bartlett, 26, in from Maine where he won 457 races last year and almost 1,300 in the previous three seasons, is the first to win six races at Monticello since
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Grand Circuit announces 2008 dates
January 16, 2008
The Grand Circuit will make 20 stops during its 2008 racing season according to the schedule announced by Grand Circuit president Tom Thomson. The Circuit will be welcoming a new member in 2008 as Harrah’s Chester Casino and Racetrack was granted dates from Aug. 17-21. The Pennsylvania oval w
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Meadows owners raise money for charity
January 16, 2008
The Meadows Standardbred Owners Association (MSOA) raised $12,144 through its annual Christmas Chinese Auction, with the proceeds going to local charities and two standardbred retirement groups.   The MSOA held its 19th annual auction at the Holiday Inn adjacent to The Meadows racetrack.
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Blue Mist hopes to find winner's circle in blizzard
January 16, 2008
An ever-improving Blue Mist hopes to leave her competition in a snowbank in Thursday’s $42,800(C) final of the Blizzard Pacing Series for 3-year-old fillies and mares. The homebred filly will have her work cut out for her, leaving from post position number nine. She’s enjoyed inside pos
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Dennis Watson wins Mighty M's King Pace
January 16, 2008
BJ’s Jetstream and driver Dennis Watson circled the leaders at the three-quarter pole and then paced off to a five-length victory in 2:00 in the seventh annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Pace at Monticello Raceway on Tuesday.   The race, the first in the Mighty M’s Heritage Drivers
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Racing offices consolidated in Pennsylvania
January 16, 2008
To improve equine racing operations in Pennsylvania, Governor Edward G. Rendell announces the consolidation of the administrative offices for Thoroughbred and Standardbred racing. The state Harness Racing and Horse Racing commissions will remain separate entities. Thanks to the hard work of both ra
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**NEW**Wire To Wire
January 16, 2008
The late Ricky Nelson sang, “I went to a garden party to reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share old memories and play our songs again,” and in this week’s Wire To Wire, Andrew Cohen writes that since it seems there is no longer a garden party for harness racing in the Garden State, re
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Northfield Park, horsemen aid starving horses
January 16, 2008
Just days after Cleveland news media broadcast shocking reports of starving and neglected horses in nearby Brimfield Township, in Portage County, Northfield Park horsemen and management responded with monetary aid and needed supplies.   A spontaneous effort, led by Ohio Harness Horsemen’s Ass
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