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Brooklyns Best, Yellow Diamond win Woodbine splits
April 28, 2009
Daughters of Western Terror dominated in their respective $20,000(C) divisions of the Ontario-Sired Spring Series on Monday evening, as Woodbine Racetrack played host to the first leg of the three-week series for three-year-old pacing fillies. All eyes were on the Astreos filly Warrawee Koine in
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Too Salty wins Trots & Slots final at Pompano
April 28, 2009
Too Salty ($14) made a three-wide move at the three-quarter mile marker to collar race leader O-Georgie and then sped away to victory by 2 1/4 lengths in winning the $42,500 final of the Trots & Slots Series at the Isle Pompano Park Monday.   The time of the one-mile trot was a lifetime m
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Field Of Honour A scores at Harrington
April 28, 2009
Carter Racing Stable and Bobby Myers' Fields of Honour A ($6, Eddie Davis Jr.) returned to Harrington Raceway a winner Monday with a 1:53.3 win in the featured conditioned sixth race.   The Myers trainee is a former 2007 track horse of the meet. The 8-year-old Fake Left gelding was making his
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Keystone Activator cruises to Primo Spur victory
April 28, 2009
Keystone Activator, parked the entire first quarter, was unassailable when he made the front, taking the $30,200 Primo Spur Trot final for 3-year-old colts and geldings Monday at The Meadows. Eric Ledford gave Keystone Activator a :30.1 breather the second panel, and that was all the son of SJ’s C
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Changes in store for upcoming Mohawk meet
April 28, 2009
Harness racing is preparing to move from its winter home at Toronto's Woodbine Racetrack, to its summer digs at Mohawk, just a short distance away on Highway 401 west in Campbellville and when it begins on Thursday evening, there will be a few changes in store according to Woodbine Entertainment G
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John Campbell named to Canadian Sports Hall of Fame
April 28, 2009
The Canadian Sports Hall of Fame announced Tuesday that John Campbell has been named to the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame, joining hockey standout Mark Messier and five others who will be formally inducted in November.   Campbell, a native of Ailsa Craig, Ont., is harness racing’s all-time lea
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Early-closers at Vernon/Tioga attract sport's stars
April 28, 2009
Many of the sport’s stars have been paid into the rich early-closing events to be raced this summer at Tioga and Vernon Downs.   The Miss Versatility has emerged as a true test of a trotting mare’s abilities with legs over all sized tracks leading to the $120,000(est.) final held annuall
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