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Muscle Hill, Encore Encore take 2CT eliminations
July 24, 2008
Muscle Hill strode to victory in the first of two elimination races for the $500,00 Peter Haughton Memorial for 2-year-old trotters on Wednesday night at the Meadowlands, with Encore Encore taking the second split.  Driven by Brian Sears, Muscle Hill surged to the lead at the top of the stretch
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Storm prompts Meadowlands to cancel 10th Wednesday
July 24, 2008
Due to extreme lightning and heavy rainfall, the Meadowlands was forced to cancel its 10th and final race on Wednesday evening. Racing resumes on Thursday with a 7 p.m. post time.
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Sunny outcome for freshman trotter at Indiana Downs
July 24, 2008
A field of eight assembled Wednesday for the first preliminary round of Indiana Sire Stakes competition for freshman colt trotters. When favorite Bar One broke stride behind the gate in the $15,000 event it opened the door for third choice Sunny Ben Joe to claim victory in a time of 2:03.3. Sunny B
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Guy Gets Girl wins Pompano feature trot
July 24, 2008
Guy Gets Girl, at odds of 7-5), won the featured $12,000 winners-over trot at Pompano Park on Wednesday night, with Bruce Ranger doing the driving.   Guy Gets Girl ($4.80) and Ranger moved swiftly off the gate from post four to take the early lead as they trotted over to the first quarte
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Lonestar Ryan alone at the wire at Saratoga
July 24, 2008
Kathy Rutherford’s Lonestar Ryan had no trouble negotiating the sloppy conditions at Saratoga Gaming and Raceway on Wednesday, capturing the featured $5,500 non-winners pace in 1:55 to prevail in his first appearance at the Saratoga Springs oval. Starting from post one with Chris Long at the line
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Four $250,000 Classic Series finals on tap at Big M Saturday
July 24, 2008
The $250,000 finals of The Classic Series will go post ward at a mile and one sixteenth at the Meadowlands on Saturday evening.     The Pacing Classic leads off the charge in race seven. Ten of the top older horses currently racing will line up behind the gate, led by morning line choic
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Top colt pacer succumbs to endotoxemia
July 24, 2008
Owner Rodney Mitchell told harnessracing.com Thursday morning that recent New Jersey Sire Stakes champion Scape Ghost has died as a result of endotoxemia. Scape Ghost had won the $175,000 Sire Stakes final at the Meadowlands June 20 in a career-best 1:50.2 and then followed that up with a narrow sec
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Lorentzon has two bids at Hambo Oaks
July 24, 2008
Young trainer Anette Lorentzon boasts training two fillies in the Hambletonian Oaks eliminations this weekend, Fancy Vacation and There’s A Way. In only her third year of training at age 25, after working for trainers such as Jimmy Takter and Trond Smedshammer, she not only has fillies entered in th
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