News Archive

Fox Valley Lover gets a lot of Koochie
May 04, 2009
Illinois conceived and foaled pacers and trotters shared the spotlight on a busy weekend of racing action at Balmoral Park as a pair of stakes events provided plenty of thrills. Trotters headlined the Sunday card as a field of eight 3-year-old state-bred fillies battled it out in the $15,000 Ko
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Stratton wins five at Tioga; Boring scores with Arson Ant
May 04, 2009
Jordan Stratton headed west to Tioga Downs on Sunday afternoon and picked up five wins in 12 drives on the afternoon’s 13-race card. Stratton, who entering the day was 10th in the North American standings for wins, increased his win total to 169 in 2009. He confirmed he will be a regular on Sun
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St. Pierre has big weekend at Saratoga
May 04, 2009
Reinsman Denis St. Pierre had his biggest week of the young season to date at Saratoga and it concluded with a driving hat trick on Sunday. St. Pierre came into the week seventh in the driver standings and ended it in sixth following a Saturday night driving double and a Sunday that saw the v
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Pantomimist wins Scarborough feature
May 04, 2009
Marcel Marceau could not have delivered any better a performance than Heath Campbell turned in on Sunday as the veteran teamster hit every mark to guide Pantomimist to the Scarborough Downs winner’s circle as the distaff star made her premier appearance of the 2009 season. Campbell engineered
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Palone wins five at The Meadows, reaches 13,001 career wins
May 04, 2009
Dave Palone became just the third harness driver in history to reach 13,000 wins this afternoon at The Meadows when he guided Western Kissed to victory in race 11. Palone had won the first, sixth, and seventh races earlier in the day to set him up for the milestone victory. It came with Western Ki
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