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Too Salty takes feature trot at 12-1 in 1:55.2
April 10, 2008
Overlooked by the betting public at odds of 12-1, Too Salty, who finished second to Adrian Chip in a Hambletonian elimination last year, sprung a mild upset at Pompano Park on Wednesday when he captured the featured $10,000 winners-over trot in a lifetime-best equaling time of 1:55.2.  
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Before He Cheats, Mucho Sleazy in Balmoral qualifiers
April 10, 2008
Before He Cheats, the winningest horse in North America last year with 21 wins in 28 starts, lined up behind the starting gate for the first time this season in a qualifier at Balmoral Park on Wednesday and scored again, trotting to a 1:58 victory with Brandon Simpson aboard.   Before He Chea
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Lawman, Swan Image win Father Foley splits
April 10, 2008
Lawman trotted a last quarter in :27.3 and held off Lets Get Serious by one-half length to win the $20,000 opening leg of the Father Foley Memorial Series in 1:53.4 Wednesday night at the Meadowlands.   With Eric Goodell in the bike, Lawman moved up from the back of the field on the backstret
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Saint Johns Boy one of seven wins for Tetrick at Dover
April 10, 2008
Tim Tetrick continued his "hot hand" driving seven winners, including Saint Johns Boy to win the $25,000 feature. George Dennis took care of the two semi-feature races, guiding Go Sassy Go in the $22,000 and Fivedollarsforsox in a upset in the $21,000 Winners-Over trot on the penultimate day of
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Dover Closes with four $100,000 DSBF finals
April 10, 2008
The Dover Downs 2007-08 meet comes to a close today with four $20,000 Delaware Standardbred Breeders Fund (DSBF) finals topping the last card of the season. In addition to the DSBF finals there are three $20,000 consolation events. First post is 5:30 p.m.   The top eight point getters in eac
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Erma La Em prevails by a head in second Blossom Series leg
April 10, 2008
Erma La Em captured the $22,500 second leg of the Blossom Series for 3-year-old pacing fillies in 1:54.1 Thursday night at the Meadowlands.   Cheyenne Trish and Andy Miller cut the mile with fractions of :28.3, :58 and 1:27, but couldn’t hold of the late-stretch dual between Erma La Em and Ca
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Landess Series underway at Hoosier
April 10, 2008
The first round of the Jerry Landess Series got underway Wednesday at Hoosier Park featuring two divisions of the $4,000 leg. The series will offer one more preliminary round before heading into the $14,000 final set for Wednesday, April 23. Showcasing the first division was My Man Moe and dri
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**NEW**Wire To Wire
April 10, 2008
Spring has arrived which means it won't be too long until stakes season is upon us, and in this week's Wire To Wire Andrew Cohen discusses the importance of a horse's 3-year-old season. He notes several "disappointments" and "surprises" over history, and that how a horse performs at two doesn't nece
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Giant Diablo, Darlin's Delight win qualifiers
April 10, 2008
Giant Diablo won a qualifier at the Meadowlands Thursday morning, trotting to a 1:54.3 score, with a :27 last quarter, for driver David Miller. The 8-year-old mare by Supergill sat third for most of the mile, then made her move.   Giant Diablo, who won last fall's Allerage Trot with a world r
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Bangor delays 2008 opener until April 18
April 10, 2008
Bangor Raceway has delayed the opening of its 2008 harness racing season from Friday until April 18 due to what track officials said was a late and sudden thaw and the effect on the track surface. The delay also means the Sunday race card has been canceled as well.   "I haven't seen anything
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Meadows hotel scrapped; parking garage, bowling alley added
April 10, 2008
Officials from the Meadows Racetrack & Casino on Thursday unveiled new plans for its $155 million permanent casino, which call for abandoning a proposed hotel project and adding a parking garage and bowling alley.   The revised plans call for as many as 4,200 slot machines, an additi
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Top colts to square off at Stockholm track
April 10, 2008
Surtees Hanover is set to take on Lord Capar, the top European 2-year-old of 2007, at the Solvalla racetrack in Stockholm next Wednesday, April 15. Surtees Hanover is eligible to the Hambletonian and the colt's trainer, Roger Walmann, has said plans call for the colt--n
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Play golf to benefit retired Standardbreds
April 10, 2008
The Standardbred Retirement Foundation (SRF) will host their annual Charity Golf Tournament on May 12 at beautiful Knob Hill Country Club in Manalapan, NJ. All proceeds benefit the SRF, the oldest, most productive, award-winning program that finds homes for non-competitive Standardbreds and ensures
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