News Archive

Dali, Blueridge Western capture Dover eliminations
December 09, 2008
Dali stroked a 1:49.1 victory in the first of two $31,519 Matron Stakes eliminations at Dover Downs on Monday, while in similar style, but a few ticks slower, Blueridge Western cruised to a 1:51.1 triumph in the other Matron elim.   After First Rate with Tim Curtin cut out the pace unt
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Pompano's Open Trot goes to the victor
December 09, 2008
Anthony Napolitano and Battleshoe Victor won the $16,000 Open Handicap Trot Monday at the Isle Pompano Park, pushing his lifetime earnings over the quarter-million-dollar mark.   The 6-year-old Valley Victor gelding had to make up a lot ground before taking the victory. Andy Santer
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Trainer sweeps Italian stakes; Windsong's Legacy filly third
December 09, 2008
The Gran Premio Allevatori, the richest Italian stakes for 2 year olds, resulted in a narrow win for the Holger Ehlert-trained filly Mania on Monday at the Tor di Valle track in Rome. Mania was catch-driven by Jorma Kontio "the Flying Finn," who also had captured the corresponding stake in Sweden
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Victory for Herestopatrick at Woodbine
December 09, 2008
Herestopatrick needed every inch of racetrack to score a nose decision in Monday's $40,100(C) Ontario-sired Autumn Series final for 2-year-old colt and gelding pacers at Woodbine Racetrack. Jack Moiseyev guided the colt to the hard-fought victory from post five after finishing a charging second in
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Bartlett, Tanner voted USHWA's Rising Stars
December 09, 2008
One of the hottest young drivers on the scene today, Jason Bartlett, has been chosen to receive the U.S. Harness Writers Association’s 2008 Rising Star Award, while the new executive vice president of the U.S. Trotting Association, Mike Tanner, will be honored with the Lew Barasch Breakthrough Award
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Irvine family matriarch dies in Ohio
December 09, 2008
Marcella Rebecca Irvine, the matriarch of an Ohio harness racing family, died Sunday at age 80 in Northfield, Ohio, following an extended illness.   After being surprised with a horse by her husband Don, her entire family became involved with harness racing. Many weekends were spent at the ra
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Four track records set at Batavia in 2008
December 09, 2008
Batavia Downs Gaming concluded its 62nd season of live harness racing on Saturday, with four track records established during the meet including the all-age track record set by Kenneth J and Jim Morrill Jr.   Kenneth J lowered Michael Scores' 1:52.1 mark in the $40,000 Robert J
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Marty's a charm at The Meadows
December 09, 2008
Marty's Charm blistered his final quarter in :27.4 to discourage all challengers en route to his second consecutive victory in the $25,000 Preferred Pace at The Meadows on Monday. Away second, Marty's Charm made the lead with a quarter-pole move and withstood the strong first-over bid of No Nonsen
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Tom's Toy ends Shes Everything's streak
December 09, 2008
Big money was on the line for Delaware-sired horses Monday night at Dover Downs, and in a $100,000 Delaware Standardbred Breeders Fund final for 2-year-old filly pacers, Tom's Toy won her third in a row, ending a six-race win streak by Shes Everything.   Corey Callahan sat second fr
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Wearable Art to stand stud in Pennsylvania
December 09, 2008
Wearable Art p,3, 1:50 ($226,040), the winner of last year's Berry's Creek Pace, will stand at stud at Lindwood Farm of Pennsylvania for the 2009 breeding season.   Campaigned by Peter Kleinhans, Wearable Art was a New Jersey Sire Stakes winner at the Meadowlands as a 2 year old and then came
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Pennsylvania bars horses coming from Dovington
December 09, 2008
The Pennsylvania State Harness Racing Commission has issued the following directive that bars horses coming into the state from the Dovington Training Center in Delaware where a horse was recently diagnosed with herpesvirus and euthanized:   "Per the order of Director of Harness Racing A
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Georgian Downs announces $500,000 race for Ontario-sired 3CP
December 09, 2008
Georgian Downs unveiled Tuesday a new stakes event to join its growing repertoire, the $500,000(C) Upper Canada Cup, restricted to Ontario-sired 3-year-old colts and geldings. The marquee stakes event will serve as the unofficial opening of the national championship stakes season
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Charges against Blagojevich could involve racing legislation
December 09, 2008
Horse racing in Illinois could be involved in the federal case against Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who was arrested at his home in Chicago early Tuesday morning on federal corruption charges.   According to the U.S. Department of Justice news release, which documented the charges, in an alleged pa
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