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Miller time in NJSS
September 12, 2008
David Miller won three of the five New Jersey Sire Stakes Green Acres for 2-year-old pacers on Thursday at Freehold Raceway. Miller's wins came with Sweepstake Jake, Enjoy The View and AJ McArdle. Miller’s triple began in the third race with 4-1 Sweepstake Jake, a son of Cam’s Card Sha
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Will Carnivore roar in Nassagaweya?
September 12, 2008
The $1 million Canadian Trotting Classic is the marquee event this Saturday’s star-studded race card at Mohawk, but two $190,000-plus flights of the Nassagaweya Stakes will give race fans a chance to catch some emerging 2-year-old pacing stars, as well. John Darling trainee Carnivore is the
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Pompano set to open Friday with Sunshine State Stakes
September 12, 2008
Undefeated Whosgoinwhosstayin heads the Isle Pompano Park Harness Track’s opening night card on Friday as the track ushers in its 45th anniversary season of horse racing.   Post time is 7:25 pm for Florida’s only nighttime horse racing track. The opening program features more than $60,000 in
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Freshman pacing colts take center stage at The Meadows
September 12, 2008
Buckeye Nation easily won his division of a $246,288 Pennsylvania Sire Stakes for freshman pacing colts and geldings on Thursday at The Meadows. The stake, known as the Tyler B, was contested over six divisions, with Panmunjom, Spring Again, Passit, Wambam Sam and Clear Vision capturing the o
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Ater, Morgan wrap up Scioto titles
September 12, 2008
Kyle Ater leads all drivers with 93 wins at the 2008 Scioto Downs meet as the season wraps up with programs on Friday and Saturday evenings.   Once again, Virgil Morgan Jr. repeated as the leading trainer at Scioto Downs. The powerful Morgan Stable had sent out the winners of 46 races thr
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Falls For You wins Miss Versatility leg at Vernon
September 12, 2008
Falls For You and driver Brian Sears made a triumphant return to Vernon Downs on Thursday night, capturing the track’s $25,000 leg of the Miss Versatility Trotting Series, sponsored by the Allerage Farms. Made the betting favorite as a result of their 1:53.1 track record performance (4-year-old tr
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Lantern Kronos draw post two in Sunday's Moni Maker final
September 12, 2008
After receiving a bye directly into the final, World Filly Trotting Derby winner Lantern Kronos will leave from post two in Sunday’s $225,200 Moni Maker for 3-year-old filly trotters at The Red Mile, while Stage Show, who won the single elimination last week, will start from post nine.   Lant
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McCarthy rules in Red Mile late-closers
September 12, 2008
Heavy rains trounced downtown Lexington for the better part of the afternoon on Thursday, making for "sloppy" track conditions throughout the 13-race card.  Late-closers were featured on the track for 3 -and 4-year-old trotters and pacers.    The night’s fourth race, a $6,000
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Good News Lady morning-line choice in Jugette
September 12, 2008
Good News Lady, winless in 12 starts this season but with 2008 earnings of $360,885, is the 5-2 morning line favorite for Wednesday’s $300,475 Jugette for 3-year-old filly pacers at the Delaware County Fair in Delaware, Ohio. Ten 3-year-old fillies were entered for the 38th Jugette.   Go
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Batavia to honor Ben Webster
September 12, 2008
When he was a young boy growing up in Hilton, N.Y., about 25 miles from Batavia, it’s doubtful that Ben Webster ever thought he would win a Hambletonian and Little Brown Jug, but during his 47-year career as a harness racing driver that’s exactly what happened.   In the winter of 1957,
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Crazed named CTC favorite over Dewey
September 12, 2008
Last week, Mohawk race fans witnessed a stunner when dark horse, Crazed, reached past the previously unassailable Deweycheatumnhowe in an elimination for the Canadian Trotting Classic, and demolished a 17-race win streak. On Saturday night, the two will meet again--and this time there’s
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Dreamlands Latte sets NJSS Green Acres record
September 12, 2008
Dreamlands Latte turned in a stakes-record performance to win the $35,000 New Jersey Sire Stakes Green Acres final for 3-year-old pacing fillies on Friday at Freehold Raceway. The daughter of Artsplace, the New Jersey Sire Stakes 2-Year-Old Filly Pacer of the Year in 2007, grabbed the
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Western Terror fillies take OSS elims
September 12, 2008
Daughters of Western Terror swept both C$40,000 Ontario Sires Stakes Gold eliminations for 2-year-old filly pacers on Friday night at Mohawk Racetrack. Briar Goes West recovered from a slow start to sweep past all of her rivals in taking the first elimination in 1:54.1. The daughter of Western Ter
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Darlins Delight takes Yonkers open
September 12, 2008
Double millionaire Darlins Delight and invader Likeabatoutahell won Yonkers Raceway's soggy $40,000 co-features Friday night. Not even the combination of a rotten post position and rotten weather could deter 'Darlin' from her appointed rounds in the Filly and Mare Open Handicap Pace. It was Darlin
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Kindergarten trotting championship at Vernon
September 12, 2008
Airzoom Lindy and Toni's Wink emerged as the top achievers in Friday night's Kindergarten Classic Series championship competition at Vernon Downs. Airzoom Lindy became the fastest 2-year-old colt trotter of the meet with his 1:59.1 performance in Friday's $91,750 sixth race, the Kindergarten fina
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