News Archive

A dame takes the Dover feature on pacing ladies day
March 25, 2009
It was pacing ladies day Tuesday at Dover Downs with Apache Dame winning the $32,500 Mares Open Pace and Wannahuckaloogi taking the $25,000 Jr. Mares Open. Apache Dame held off Lady Mach and Corey Callahan in deep stretch to score a 1:53.1 triumph with Ross Wolfenden holding t
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World champion Esmeralda Semalu wins again
March 25, 2009
She is not the newest world record holder in harness racing by chance as Esmeralda Semalu ($2.60) strutted her stuff once again, winning the $16,000 Mares Open Handicap Pace Tuesday at the Isle Pompano Park.   Racing again against rival world record holder, U All BB, Esmeralda Semalu and tra
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31 older pacers flavor opening round of Levy Series
March 25, 2009
A Baskin Robbins-approved 31 horses have entered the opening round of Yonkers Raceway's George  Morton Levy Memorial Pacing Series. That number necessitated four $50,0000 divisions Saturday night. The million-dollar (est.) series, the Raceway's premier free-for-all event, is comprised of five
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Gulotta talks slots with New Jersey committee
March 25, 2009
Owner-breeder Michael Gulotta told a panel of state senators that slots in New Jersey’s racetracks will be a winner for the state’s budget as well as horsemen. Gulotta presented 2,000 words of testimony at a public hearing of the New Jersey State Senate Budget & Appropriations Committee on
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Zahn to be remembered at Balmoral April 4
March 25, 2009
Right up until his death two months before his 80th birthday in 2002, Harold Zahn could be found in the second-floor clubhouse at Balmoral Park, watching and wagering on the harness races. It didn't take long for his son and daughter-in-law, Dale and LaVonne Zahn, to launch what has become an annual
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Balmoral photographer profiled in Chicago Tribune
March 25, 2009
Wednesday’s Chicago Tribune carries a story of David Baum, the 22-year-old college senior who is also the Balmoral Park track photographer. The Tribune story gives Baum’s insight on taking his finish-line shots at the racetrack located in Crete, Ill. To read the Chicago Tribune’s story on Baum click
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First Day of Racing with Indiana’s New Whipping Rule
March 25, 2009
Tuesday was opening day for season 15 of racing at Hoosier Park, but it was the first day of racing in compliance with Indiana’s stringent new whipping rule. The rule, recently adopted by the Indiana Horse Racing Commission, is the first-of-its-kind regulation and requires handholds to be taut with
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