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Hochstetler unveils impressive 2-year-old filly trotter
June 25, 2009
Fans of Balmoral Park received their first look at some of this year’s 2-year-old trotting filly crop here in the Prairie State on Wednesday night as a field of five youngsters met in the $5,000 Star Slinger Stakes.    As always, driver-trainer Homer Hochstetler appears to have a w
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Perry scores double at Ocean Downs
June 25, 2009
"It's about to really heat up over here," were the words of driver Chuck Perry Jr. Perry would know about being hot, as he has been burning up the Ocean Downs track with eight wins already this season.   Wednesday, the racing fans at the Ocean oval witnessed Perry lay down a driving double a
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DSBF showdown looming for 3 year olds
June 25, 2009
A showdown between two Delaware-bred pacing colts is being staged for July 30 as both Gary and Barbara Iles Zee Barber ($2.40, Jim Morand) and Richards Stable, Donna Sullivan and Judy Leonard's Ray's Big Bubba ($2.40, Ross Wolfenden) won their Delaware Standardbred Breeders Fund (DSBF)&nbs
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Top 3-year-old pacer Captain Sir euthanized
June 25, 2009
Horseman Carl Jamieson has told Standardbred Canada that the 2008 Breeders Crown elimination winner Captain Sir has been euthanized. "I trained him Thursday (June 18) and left him in the paddock that night," Jamieson explained. "On Friday morning the horse couldn't walk." Jamieson explained t
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Six divisions for 3FT's held at The Meadows
June 25, 2009
Broadway Schooner had trouble harnessing her talent at age two, but she put it all together on Wednesday at The Meadows, scoring in a stakes record 1:54.3 in a division of a $248,110 Pennsylvania Sire Stakes for sophomore trotting fillies. The event, also known as the Meadow Bright Stakes, was cont
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Former Scioto GM honored for work as sheriff
June 25, 2009
Bob Steele, former general manager at Scioto Downs and presiding judge at the Delaware County Fair, was honored this week by the National Sheriffs Association at their annual convention in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. Steele received an award as the longest serving deputy sheriff and police officer in t
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