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Falls For You only favorite to win
April 07, 2009
It was not a good day for favorites on the biggest program of the season at Dover Downs Monday as the opening Classic legs went to Frog Juice, Martha Maxine, Swan Image, Falls For You and Summertime Yankee.    Tim Tetrick had three winners; Ron Pierce, Eric Goodell and David Miller
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Mr Wiggles, Little Bit Tricky win Delaware finals
April 07, 2009
Mr. Wiggles was a 6-1 surprise winner of the Delaware Standardbred Breeders Fund (DSBF) $100,000 Three-Year-Old Colt Pace final when Corey Callahan drove the Badlands Hanover colt past public choice Ray's Big Bubba for a 1:52 victory Monday night at Dover Downs.   The win was the second
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Slave Dream wins Riedel Memorial Trot
April 07, 2009
Slave Dream ($8.40) swept three wide on the final turn and gunned down Farmer Jones to win the $16,000 Hubert Riedel Memorial Trot Monday at the Isle Pompano Park.   The feature saw some early hardball as Diva Diva (Andy Santeramo), the lone mare in the field, parked out race favorite B
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3YO trotting fillies in action in series at Woodbine
April 07, 2009
Kandor Hanover delivered as the favorite while NF Freestyle posted an upset in Monday’s first leg of the Celias Counsel Trotting Series for 3-year-old fillies over a Woodbine track rated as good after a day of freezing rain and snow.   Kandor Hanover was taken off the pace in the opening $20,
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Dale Blackledge, who worked in the Log Cabin, dies
April 07, 2009
Dale J. Blackledge, a volunteer who worked behind the counter in the Log Cabin at the Delaware County Fair, taking race entries and also balanced the entries at the conclusion of racing at the fair, died April 4.   Blackledge, 70, who was born in Kalamazoo, Mich., had worked as a volunt
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