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J Lo Hanover wins Mares Open Pace in 1:53.4
November 01, 2008
Newcomer J Lo Hanover ($6.60) brought an end to Lucy Lucy’s three-race winning streak with an impressive 1:53.4 victory in the $14,000 Mares Open Pace at the Isle Pompano Park Friday.   The fifth-race feature started off with J Lo Hanover and driver Kevin Wallis going to the early lead, but
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Elusive Desire, Daylon Mystique win OSS Gold elims
November 01, 2008
It was all treats and no tricks for Elusive Desire and Daylon Mystique Friday night at Woodbine, as the two fillies captured their respective $40,000 Ontario Sire Stakes Gold eliminations for freshman trotters. In the first of the two elims, driver Paul MacDonell and Elusive Desire made a
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Dani California breaks maiden in Cal Sire Stakes elim
November 01, 2008
Getting your first career win going for a purse of $15,000 is exactly what Dani California did  Friday night at Cal-Expo.   Two-year-old filly trotters were featured on Halloween night in a California Sire Stakes, during  which Dani California pulled away from her fellow f
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Memphis Glow repeats at Northfield in 1:55.1
November 01, 2008
Memphis Glow ($2.40) was a repeat winner in Friday's $7,000 Mares Open Pace with a near gate-to-wire 1:55.1 win over Sugar Scoot Brown and Shell I Attack. The time for the mile equaled the winner's lifetime best, set here last month.   Shell I Attack took the lead after being parked by the ev
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Deweycheatumnhowe wins by 6 1/4 in 1:55.2 mile at Vernon Downs
November 01, 2008
The acclaimed Deweycheatumnhowe showed why he's considered one of the Standardbred sport's top trotters of all time after a titillating 1:55.2 triumph in a special $20,000 Open test for 3-5 year olds at Vernon Downs on Friday night.   Part-owner, trainer and driver Ray Schnittker did the tea
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Jans Luck likes Lightning Lane at The Meadows
November 01, 2008
Jans Luck, a recent convert to the joys of the “Lightning Lane,” used that path successfully Friday at The Meadows when she captured the $25,000 Filly & Mare Preferred Handicap Pace for the second straight week.   Accustomed to racing on the lead, Jans Luck was pocketed on Oct. 24 for Da
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Favorites scare up victories in Yonkers features
November 01, 2008
Those Halloween night ghosts, ghouls and goblins were joined by cheering chalkplayers as a couple of Yonkers Raceway favorites won their respective $40,000 co-features. Go on BB, a sharp Meadows shipper, had no problem negotiating the change of venue in the Filly and Mare Open Handicap Pace. 
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