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Stage Show sets 1:55.2 track mark
August 15, 2008
Coming off a third-place effort in the Hambletonian Oaks, Stage Show stole the spotlight in Pennsylvania Sire Stakes action at Harrah's Chester on Thursday afternoon, parlaying pocket position into a 1:55.2 performance over fast going, breaking a track record for 3-year-old trotting fillies.  
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Btwnyurheartnmine “coasts” home in 1:50.1 in KYSS
August 15, 2008
Three-year-old Kentucky sired trotters and pacers were back in the spotlight on Thursday night, and the betting public was right on target as six of the seven winners were betting favorites.    The fastest and perhaps most impressive Kentucky Sire Stakes winner of the night came in the
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Jim Morand wins seven at Harrington
August 15, 2008
Driver Jim Morand won seven races on the Harrington Raceway program Thursday. The 43-year-old driver and winner of 7672 races lifetime, became one of only four drivers in track history to win seven races on one program.   Morand started the win parade in the second race with Mayday Mojo ($3.
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Miller on a roll at Scioto
August 15, 2008
Brett Miller continued to show that he didn't lose his driving skills during his year-long absence from racing as he won half of the 10 races at Scioto Downs on Thursday night.   He scored in the first race with the 2-year-old filly Panolua Bay by The Panderosa with a 2:01 come-from-behind v
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Hawthorne wraps up summer meet
August 15, 2008
The Hawthorne Summer Harness Meet was a success by most any measure. On site handle increased by nearly 11 percent as full fields, contentious races, and a cornucopia of promotions brought more people to the Stickney, Ill. venue.   The quality of racehorse was evident by no less than fo
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Sister Kae scores impressively at Saratoga
August 15, 2008
After finishing third behind Whycantiforgetyou and Dandy’s Jewel in last week’s top female pacing event at Saratoga Gaming and Raceway, Sister Kae benefited from the absence of those rivals when capturing Thursday’s featured $15,000 Fillies and Mares Open Pace in 1:55.2.   Driven aggressively
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Bullville Powerful vies for third in a row
August 15, 2008
Tioga Downs is gearing up to kickoff another weekend of harness racing action as the New York State Fair races continue on. Friday gets the action rolling with five divisions of New York State Fair races for freshmen filly trotters with a post time of 6:50 p.m.   Saturday marks the return of
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Marks scores four at Vernon
August 15, 2008
Josh Marks scored four times during Thursday night’s 12-race program at Vernon Downs, including a 1:51.4 triumph behind Marietta Hall in the week’s top Miracle Mile class for female pacers.   After finishing fourth in this class during her initial Vernon venture last Friday, Marietta Hall was
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Point standings complete for PASS 3YO championships
August 15, 2008
With the conclusion of all four preliminary rounds of the pari-mutuel Pennsylvania Sire Stakes for 3-year-olds after yesterday’s racing at Harrah's Chester, the competitors for the $150,000 divisional championships, to be held Sunday, September 7, at Chester, are known.   The top eight point
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Countdown begins for Breeders Crown
August 15, 2008
The Breeders Crown, harness racing divisional championship series, kicks into gear this week with supplemental entries due and payable on Monday, August 18, noon [EDT] in the racing secretary's office at Mohawk Racetrack.   The four Open Events, worth $1.6 million, have finals schedule
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PHHA extends weekly harness racing show
August 15, 2008
The Pennsylvania Harness Horsemen’s Association has announced that the 2008 broadcast season of PA HarnessWeek will be extended through December 20. It will continue to air on Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia every Saturday, but startingon August 30, the time slot will switch from 1pm to 4 pm. Th
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Muscle Shirt flexes her muscles in Helen Smith
August 15, 2008
The $70,000 Helen Smith Memorial for 3-year-old filly trotters was contested at Freehold Raceway Friday afternoon. The overwhelming favorite Muscle Shirt won in 1:56.3 with Cat Manzi at the lines for trainer Chuck Sylvester. Owned by Irving Liverman, Neal Goldman, Alan Caplan and Keith Dic
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Spam Spade sets NJSS and track record
August 15, 2008
Spam Spade trotted to victory in 1:55.4, setting a track and stakes record, in the $23,250 first division of the opening round of New Jersey Sire Stakes (NJSS) action on Friday at Freehold Raceway.   The second-race clocking set a new standard for 3-year-old trotting geldings, eclipsing
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NY State Fair at Tioga
August 15, 2008
Tioga Downs hosted five divisions of New York State Fair Stakes for 2-year-old filly trotters on Friday night (August 15).   Howard Okusko, Jr. and She’s So Savvy (Malabar Man-Twitty) posted the fastest split in the first division with a new lifetime mark of 1:58.4. The Purple Haze Stable LLC
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Fifth Straight for Caviar FortheLady in PASS
August 15, 2008
Caviar Forthe Lady, a 2-year-old Sj's Caviar-Croupier Lady filly trotter, won her fifth straight race Friday afternoon (August 15) at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs, capturing one of six divisions of the Pennsylvania Sire Stakes for 2-year-old trotting fillies. Reined by Charlie Norris, Caviar F
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Bella Dolce Leads Field for SBOA Final at Mohawk
August 15, 2008
Bella Dolce simply toyed with her competition on Friday night (August 15) at Mohawk to extend her current win streak to five in winning one of two C$25,000 SBOA Stakes eliminations for 3-year-old filly trotters. The daughter of Kadabra-Pizza Dolce sat sixth in the early stages before beginning a l
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Dewey Tops in Sweet Sixteen
August 15, 2008
Deweycheatumnhowe was victorious in his 16th straight win Friday night at Vernon Downs.  He won handily by eight lengths in 1:54 over pacesetter Summertime Yankee and Andy Miller.   Coming home with a :28.2 final panel, Dewey overcame the assigned post position five in the $30,000 t
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