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My Red High Heels wins Town Pro final at Mohawk
July 14, 2009
Just as she did a week ago in the second leg of the Town Pro Pacing Series, My Red High Heels went to the front and stole her way to victory in Monday’s $55,700(C) final for 3-year-old filly pacers at Mohawk Racetrack. Randy Waples picked up the catch-driving assignment and sent the daughter of Mo
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European quartet arriving in Canada for upcoming stakes
July 14, 2009
The Woodbine Entertainment Group is pleased to announce that the connections of three of Scandinavia's most powerful mature trotters have accepted an invitation to cross the ocean and contest the $730,000(C) Maple Leaf Trot at Mohawk Racetrack on July 25. Shipping into quarantine facilities at Moha
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Freshman pacing fillies in Pennsylvania spotlight at Chester
July 14, 2009
Two-year-old pacing fillies were in the spotlight on Monday evening at Harrah's Chester Casino and Racetrack, which hosted seven $20,000 divisions of the Pennsylvania Stallion Series as a lead-in to Sire Stakes action this upcoming Wednesday. Caviart Kiss ($10, The Panderosa-Before Sunrise) le
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It's Spring Break time at The Meadows
July 14, 2009
Spring Break and Brett Miller grabbed the early lead and went on to a comfortable victory in the $27,500 Filly & Mare Preferred Pace on Monday at The Meadows. Spring Break pocketed Natalie before the quarter pole; the duo raced that way throughout, with Spring Break prevailing by a half-length
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DiBenedetto just seven from 5,000
July 14, 2009
Kyle DiBenedetto won two more races at Monticello Raceway on Monday as he continues to close in on the milestone of 5,000 career victories, now sitting just seven away at 4,993. He reined Sitting Bull Stables' Blue Creek Angie ($4) to a 1:59.1 victory in the seventh race and then came back to
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Empire State's finishes sophomore colt pacers in Yonkers action
July 14, 2009
The state's glamour division made its second downstate appearance Monday night with Yonkers Raceway hosting the $217,252 New York Sire Stakes Bruce Hamilton Pace for 3-year-old colts and geldings. Four divisions--at $54,313 each--went postward, with those established commodities doing nothing t
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The Meadows adds four $50,000 invitationals Adios weekend
July 14, 2009
The Meadows will stage four $50,000 Invitational races on Friday, July 31, as part of its Adios Week festival of Grand Circuit action. Pennsylvania -sired or -owned horses are preferred for the Invitational races--one each for pacing horses, trotting horses, pacing mares and trotting mares. The Inv
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