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Kakaley goes Gingras one better, wins seven
June 30, 2009
Twenty-one-year-old Matt Kakaley wasted no time getting started on his second thousand wins, posting an impressive seven-bagger at Northfield Monday.   Kakaley, who became the youngest driver in harness racing history to reach 1,000 wins Sunday at Tioga Downs, took both halves of the $27 earl
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New Jersey super night set for July 23
June 30, 2009
The New Jersey Sire Stakes Program will crown its 2-year-old pacing and trotting champions at the Meadowlands on Thursday, July 23, with purses totaling $800,000. That will be the most Sire Stakes purse money distributed on any one night in NJSS history, with four $200,000 Premier Division cham
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Michigan Racing Commissioner White resigns
June 30, 2009
Michigan Racing Commissioner Christine White, whose forced budget cuts have severely impacted racing in that state, has notified Gov. Jennifer Granholm that she is resigning her position to take a job with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In a memo sent to staff members, White said her resignatio
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Big M invaders take two of three opening splits of Town Pro
June 30, 2009
Meadowlands invaders fared well in Monday night's opening leg of the Town Pro Series for 3-year-old filly pacers at Mohawk Racetrack, winning two of the three $20,000(C) divisions over a rain-soaked oval that was rated as "good." Local filly Apricot Brandy used a strong stretch rally to scor
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Art Director closing in on $1 million
June 30, 2009
Kovach Stables' Art Director ($7.80, Victor Kirby) notched his 35th career win with a 1:52.2 win in the featured $23,000 Open Pace Monday at Harrington Raceway.   The 8-year-old Artiscape stallion and Bobby Clark trainee has now banked more than $937,000 in his career. Sniper Hall (Mike
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Gingras cracks open a six-pack at Harrah's Chester
June 30, 2009
Yannick Gingras won six races on the Monday night card at Harrah’s Chester Casino & Racetrack. Gingras won six of 11 establishing two lifetime marks aboard Alastor Hanover and Royal Fortune in the Daily Double and seasonal bests on Trueland Hanover, Classic Cullen N and Lightning Elvis respectiv
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Rembrandt Spur wins Currier & Ives
June 30, 2009
Rembrandt Spur made a decisive quarter-pole move to the front, then cruised on top to capture the $119,679 final of the Currier & Ives for 3-year-old colt and gelding trotters on Monday at The Meadows. Rembrandt Spur has done his best racing on the lead, so when he got away third behind e
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Indiana budget impasse could close Hoosier Park at midnight
June 30, 2009
Hoosier Park and all other gambling operations in Indiana could be forced to close as of midnight tonight unless the state legislature approves a new state budget or passes a continuing resolution to pay for state operations by that time.   A vote on a two-year budget is expected in both the
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And four for Forte at Monticello
June 30, 2009
Without much fanfare Mike Forte keeps winning races. On Monday, the 51-year-old native of Dix Hills, N.Y. won four more and now has 90 here at Monticello Raceway which places him fourth on the local leaderboard. Forte began the afternoon with a 2:02.3 trotting victory with Ran
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Bobblehead, bobblehead, get your Gingras bobblehead at Tioga!
June 30, 2009
Tioga Downs will be giving away Yannick Gingras bobbleheads on Sunday afternoon, Aug. 2, which is also the third annual Driver’s Championship. Gingras was the co-champion along with Brian Sears of the inaugural event in 2007, but was the outright champion in 2008 by winning the final three even
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