News Archive

Illinois champ scores in Delaware feature
March 26, 2008
Sportsfancy showed her class scoring a 1:52.1 victory in the $32,000 Mares Open Pace at Dover Downs on Tuesday, with the winners-over paces going to Ball Gown A and Riley Rose. Tim Tetrick had a five-bagger and Tony Morgan won four races. In the feature, last year's Illinois stakes sta
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The ax falls on foes in Meadows series finale
March 26, 2008
Axson Hanover cut wicked fractions and made them stand up, cruising to a comfortable victory in the $26,900 final of the West Chestnut Street Trot for 3- and 4-year-old colts, horses and geldings on Tuesday at The Meadows. Trainer-driver-lessee Harold Brocklehurst sent Axson Hanover through a
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Yonkers weekend features Levy opener and Sagamore Hill final
March 26, 2008
Art's Image, well-backed and well-deserved in sweeping his Sagamore Hill Pacing Series sojourns, leads Saturday night's $67,000 final at Yonkers Raceway. Art's Image, three for three in the trials and an odds-on favorite in each of 'em, landed post position seven for the final, with S
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New web site design for New York participants
March 26, 2008
The Harness Horse Breeders of New York State is pleased to announce the development of its new HHBNYS.COM website.  Features of the new site include race replays of last year’s NYSS Night of Champions, Zweig Memorial Trot, NYSS late-closer finals and NYSS County Fair finals and will b
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RMTC makes steroid policy recommendations
March 26, 2008
Meeting in Austin, Texas, the board of directors of the Racing Medication and Testing Consortium (RMTC), in consultation with the RMTC Scientific Advisory Committee, unanimously adopted on Tuesday several policy recommendations that it will forward on to regulators, horsemen and veterinarians. &nbs
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***New***Wire To Wire
March 26, 2008
In his latest edition of Wire To Wire, Andrew Cohen says that while attracting GenXers may be daunting, some racetracks are trying, and everyone in racing can do more. "And I’m not just talking about re-inviting friends to the dining room for dinner," Cohen writes. "I am talking about proselytizing
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World champion Holborn Hanover dies
March 26, 2008
Holborn Hanover, whose 1:46.4 win in the U.S. Pacing Championship in 2006 at the Meadowlands stands as the fastest race mile in history, died Tuesday following complications from surgery to repair a fractured cannon bone. Trainer Bruce Saunders told harnessracing.com the injury occurred last week du
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