News Archive

Friday Backstretch with Gordon
October 02, 2009
I guess Friday morning should be an Almost In The Backstretch column as the weather in Lexington is miserable: rainy, windy and cool. It’s supposed to stay like this until late afternoon, but it appears the Kentucky Filly Futurity race card will be raced on an off track. You know it’s not pretty sin
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Red Mile post time moved to 1:30 p.m.
October 02, 2009
Post time for Friday afternoon Kentucky Filly Futurity race card at The Red Mile has been moved back an hour to 1:30 p.m. due to rain that has been falling since the early morning hours in Lexington, Ky. The two eliminations for the $378,000 Filly Futurity are scheduled as the sixth and seventh
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Pierce granted stay of 10-day whipping suspension
October 02, 2009
Kentucky Horse Racing Authority executive director Lisa Underwood told harnessracing.com Friday afternoon that driver Ron Pierce has been given a stay of his 10-day suspension for violating the one-handed whipping rule in a race earlier in the week at The Red Mile. Pierce's suspension was scheduled
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OK To Play, Broadway Schooner, Seaside win Filly Futurity elims
October 02, 2009
Daniel Dube moved OK To Play from third to first at the opening quarter and the sophomore trotter led the rest of the way to win the first of three $65,520 eliminations for the $378,000 Kentucky Filly Futurity Friday afternoon at The Red Mile. The time of the mile was 1:53.4 over a track rated
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Bluegrass 3FP divisions contested
October 02, 2009
Jim Morrill Jr. tipped Showherthemoney three wide off a third-over trip turning for home and the daughter of Cam's Card Shark rallied to win the first of two $101,500 Bluegrass divisions for 3-year-old filly pacers in 1:51.3 Friday afternoon at The Red Mile. Also closing in the middle of stretc
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Seaside Wins Filly Futurity
October 02, 2009
Seaside wins Filly Futurity final in 1:54. (Joseph Kyle)
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Freehold place to be for Green Acres finals
October 02, 2009
Nice Dream trotted to the lead at the quarter-mile pole and drew off to a 12-length victory in 1:58.1 to capture the $50,000 New Jersey Sire Stakes Green Acres final for 3-year-old colts and geldings Friday at Freehold Raceway.   In the $50,000 NJSS Green Acres final for 3-year-old trott
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Maywood hosts Violet & Cardinal eliminations
October 02, 2009
Illinois conceived and foaled two-year-olds were the focus of attention on a cold and rainy Friday night at Maywood Park as the Violet & Cardinal Stake eliminations were contested over a sloppy track.   With a total of 15 two-year-old pacing fillies entered for the Violet a pair of $7,50
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Bouchard reaches 7,000 career victories
October 02, 2009
Stephane Bouchard Friday night did what he's done for the better part of this decade...find his way into Yonkers Raceway's winner's circle. However, his trip there with the mare Winnie the Who was more than a bit special, doubling as the 7,000th victory of his driving career.   "Winnie," a 5-
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Brainard entry bulletproof in OSS Gold elims
October 02, 2009
A late-charging Kabbalah Karen B captured the first of two Ontario Sires Stakes Gold eliminations for sophomore pacing fillies Friday evening, October 2 at Mohawk, while her stablemate Yellow Diamond made short work of her rivals in the second to deliver a sweep for trainer Tracy Brainard and the Bu
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