News Archive

Second-leg divisions at Dover go to bettors' choices
March 30, 2009
Favorites Tom's Toy and AJ's Lilgamblingal took the $20,000 Delaware Standardbred Breeders Fund second leg preliminaries Sunday at Dover Downs, with chalk prevailing in the two $15,000 Go The Distance divisions. The favorites prevailed in the all-DSBF daily double where the 7-2 combinati
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Michigan adopts whipping rules
March 30, 2009
Racing commissioner Christine C. White on Monday gave notice to Michigan’s harness horse racing industry that effective May 1 strict penalties and suspensions will be awarded those harness drivers who excessively use a whip on a horse during a race. "The health, safety and welfare of the
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Ten-win weekend for 'The Orange Crush'
March 30, 2009
It was an Orange Crush weekend at the Big M as a day after winning five races on the Saturday night card, driver Andy Miller won five more Sunday afternoon. Miller drove Western Shore ($14.40) to victory in Saturday night’s Invitational and returned to the winner’s circle one race later after
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Thong to make 2009 debut on Pocono opener Wednesday
March 30, 2009
Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs is reintroducing night racing Wednesday (April 1) as the 2009 live harness racing season gets underway.  Post time is 6:30 pm for the season’s opener, and a filly and mare field that includes Thong will be the feature of the card.   There will be live action a
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Frank Ives, once managed Fair Winds Farm, dies
March 30, 2009
Frank T. Ives III, 65, who managed Fair Winds Farm during the 1980s and later Windswept Farm in New York, died Saturday. Ives, who was living in Delaware at the time of his death, had been working outside of horse racing at H & R Ewell Trucking Company.   Ives is survi
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