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Slave Dream, Stood Alone capture series splits at Big M
May 15, 2009
Slave Dream made it two in a row after prevailing in the first of two $18,000 Hiram Woodruff legs Thursday night at the Meadowlands. Twin B Navigator hustled up the backstretch, passed tiring leaders and parked the stalking Slave Dream around the far turn. The two began slugging it out down the stre
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Graduate, Cutler, NJSS on tap at Meadowlands
May 15, 2009
This Saturday, world-class racing does not end with the Preakness as the Graduate and Arthur J. Cutler Memorial finals and first leg of the New Jersey Sire Stakes for 3-year-old colt pacers highlight a 13-race card worth more than $700,000 in purses at the Meadowlands. Post time is 7 p.m.
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Bartlett trails after 1st round of Driving Championship
May 15, 2009
Belgium’s Christophe Martens picked up right where he left off; the reigning world driving champion won the 2007 tournament in New Zealand, and stands atop the leader board after round one of the 2009 Championship, raced on Thursday in Bergen, Norway. A win and a second put him in a points tie wit
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Jans Luck repeats at The Meadows
May 15, 2009
Allowed a second-quarter breather, Jans Luck blazed the last half in :55.3 and cruised to victory in the $25,000 Filly & Mare Preferred Pace on Thursday at The Meadows. Dave Palone hustled Jans Luck to the front through an opening quarter of :27. When the 5-year-old daughter of Camluck-Jans Sc
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Clement stablemates double up at Saratoga
May 15, 2009
For the second consecutive Thursday night, stablemates Jim Jam Gigolett and Double Brand won at Saratoga. The Ed Clement trainees were each prohibitive favorites in their races and made good with relative ease. Jim Jam Gigolett recorded her third consecutive win by wiring the field at 2-5 for drive
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Deat heat in Vernon feature trot
May 15, 2009
Unshakeable and Sharpshootennorris tied for top honors in Thursday night’s $9,000 featured sixth race at Vernon Downs. Unshakeable, leaving from post six in the week’s Open 1 Trot, went right to the front for driver Howard Okusko Jr. and cut fractions of :28.1 to the quarter, :58.4 to the half and
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Foiled Again strong in Chester victory
May 15, 2009
Recent $370,000 George Morton Levy final winner Foiled Again came up victorious Thursday night in the $32,500 Open Handicap Pace at Harrah's Chester, touring the five-eighths mile oval in 1:51.2 with Yannick Gingras in the sulky.   Foiled Again left fast from post five and set all the fractio
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Bouchard set to defend Maple Leaf title Monday at Mighty M
May 15, 2009
The last time Monticello Raceway staged the Maple Leaf Pace driver Stephane Bouchard walked away with the trophy after winning that 2005 event with 15-1 shot Elite Passage in a 2:01.2 clocking. Bouchard will be back to defend his title on Monday in the race specifically for drive
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Ohio horsemen gathering steam for Tuesday's rally
May 15, 2009
A rally at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus by the Ohio horse racing industry Tuesday, May 19, is just four days away and the forces behind the gathering continue to drum up support, including getting the word out via a radio interview with former Scioto Downs director of racing Jim Ewart on Thursday
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Nebupanezzar sidelined by tendon injury
May 15, 2009
Word comes from the stable of trainer Bob McIntosh that last year’s O’Brien Award winner in Canada in the rookie pacing colt division, Nebupanezzar, has suffered an injury that will keep him on the sidelines for a good portion of the summer. “I had him scheduled to make his first start for the OSS
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Bartlett has win Friday in World Driving Championship
May 15, 2009
New Zealand's Peter Ferguson posted a first, second and third to take a 71-60 point lead over Bjorn Goop in the World Driving Championship in Norway Friday while the United States’ entry, Jason Bartlett, broke into the win column with a victory in the second of four races in the second round, but tw
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Bettor Sweet scratched from Graduate
May 15, 2009
World record holder Bettor Sweet has been scratched from Saturday's $210,000 Graduate Final at the Meadowlands due to a lung infection. "We had some sick horses in the barn and when I scoped him earlier this week, he was clean," trainer Joe Poliseno said Friday afternoon.  "Today, I scoped
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