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Sargent Volo upsets Mr. Cantab in Review
August 19, 2009
Grand Circuit action at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield got underway on Tuesday following the cancellation of Monday’s program due to rain. In the biggest shocker of the afternoon came in the $62,000 Review Stakes for 3-year-old colt trotters when Brooke Nickells directed the 24-1 longshot Sa
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Indiana Downs hosts big stakes weekend
August 19, 2009
More than $800,000 in purses will be up for grabs Saturday, August 22 at Indiana Downs as the Shelbyville track plays host to a quartet of lucrative stakes on the 14-race program. The card will feature freshman filly pacers and trotters competing in the Kentuckiana Stallion Management Stakes while t
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Yonkers Trot attracts a field of 14
August 19, 2009
Yonkers Trot starter Judge Joe. (Mike Lizzi photo)
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Southwind Tempo's sister upsets in NYSS
August 19, 2009
It’s always a bit of a shock when an odds-on favorite gets beat at the wire as Shaky Hanover did in the third and final $50,000 split of the $150,000 New York Sire Stakes for 2-year-old pacing fillies at Monticello Raceway on Tuesday. But when the winner, Hula’s Z Tam, driven by Pat Lachance, turns
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Don'ttellmewhattodo wins at Harrington
August 19, 2009
Darryl Gombert, Jeffrey Rose and Hankook Stable’s Don’ttellmewhattodo ($3.80, Tony Morgan) was a decisive winner in Tuesday’s $21,700 Mares Junior Open at Harrington Raceway.   The 6-year-old DM Dilinger gelding and Morgan went right to the front from post seven and never looked back in a two
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Kindergarten splits featured Friday at Vernon
August 19, 2009
Two divisions of the Kindergarten Classic Series will co-feature Friday night’s 11-race card at Vernon Downs, along with a $9,000 Open Handicap Trot.   In the first race, a $10,000 Kindergarten Classic leg for 2-year-old colt and gelding trotters, Ray Schnittker will send out the high-priced
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Army Hanover marches to PA Stallion victory
August 19, 2009
Army Hanover marched to the lead with a quarter-pole move en route to victory in the fastest division of a $140,000 Pennsylvania Stallion Series Stake on Tuesday at The Meadows.   The event for 2-year-old pacing colts and geldings was contested over seven divisions, with Sectionline Blas
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Iceland is hot in Anniversary Trot
August 19, 2009
Iceland, a 5-year-old son of 2001 Hambletonian winner Scarlet Knight, won the biggest race of his career on Wed. Aug. 19th at Solvalla in Sweden when he nosed out French horses Igor Font and Quarcio du Chene in the Anniversary Trot. In the past, the Anniversary Trot was typically raced about the sam
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