News Archive

Fox Valley Lover wins Balmoral stake
July 01, 2009
State-bred trotting fillies were back in the spotlight on Tuesday night at Balmoral Park as an overflow field of 11 diagonally gaited sophomores squared off in an $18,370 Illinois Standardbred Owners & Breeders Association Stake.   Continuing her money-making ways for owners Paula Smith
[read more]

Yada Yada Yada A wins 43rd career race
July 01, 2009
Bill Ditmar, Stephen Iaquinta, Kenny Wood and Henry King's Yada Yada Yada A ($6.60, Frank Milby) earned her 43rd career win Tuesday in the featured $19,800 Mares Open at Harrington Raceway. The 9-year-old Armbro Operative mare seized the front from Ozmopolitan approaching the quarter and cruis
[read more]

McCarthy scores PASS hat trick at Pocono
July 01, 2009
Australian-born Andrew McCarthy enjoyed his biggest night ever in North America on Tuesday night at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs, collecting three Pennsylvania Sire Stakes victories for 3-year-old pacing colts and geldings. In the opening division, with each of the races carrying purses of $4
[read more]

A gifted win indeed in PA Stallion split at The Meadows
July 01, 2009
In an eventful career debut, DVC Gifted Indeed threw a shoe, opened up a comfortable lead and nearly squandered it en route to victory in a division of an $80,000 Pennsylvania Stallion Series stake for 2-year-old colt and gelding pacers on Tuesday at The Meadows. The event was contested over
[read more]

Historic Week set to begin at the Meadowlands
July 01, 2009
Harness racing's Grand Circuit makes the first of its two summer stops at the Meadowlands during Historic Week, July 1-4. Originally raced at the Goshen Historic Track in New York, the eight Historic stakes events moved to the Meadowlands in 1979. The 2-year-old fillies step out Wednesday in the $
[read more]

Red Mile presents proposed development plans
July 01, 2009
Officials of The Red Mile presented a plan Tuesday night in a public meeting held in Lexington that call for development of 68 acres of the 132-acre site that includes business, retail shops and residences, including 150 to 200 condominiums and apartments targeted toward young professionals. The pl
[read more]

Kentucky Horse Racing Commission gets budget boost
July 01, 2009
After seeing its funding from the state’s general fund cut the past two years, the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission (KHRC) has received a significant boost for the coming year. In fiscal year 2008, the KHRC’s funding was cut from $1.7 million the previous year to $504,200, and then saw another decre
[read more]

Hoosier Park remains open as budget resolved
July 01, 2009
Although the Indiana legislature resolved its budget issues on Tuesday, earlier in the day Hoosier Park and the state’s other gambling venues went to court and received an order that would have prevented the state shutting down those sites if a budget had not been approved.   Marion County Su
[read more]

Meadows announces scholarship recipients
July 01, 2009
The Meadows Standardbred Owners Association has announced the winners of the 2009-10 MSOA Collegiate Scholarships. Three students will share a total of $6,000 in awards for the upcoming schoolyear. Chelsea Fahy, of Washington, PA, is the recipient of a $2,500 scholarship.  She will attend th
[read more]