News Archive

Jamieson, Brainard take Mohawk titles
October 06, 2009
Jody Jamieson was once again the leading linesman during the April 30-Oct. 5 Mohawk meet. The 33-year-old driver and third-generation horseman, who won an O’Brien award as Canada’s top driver in 2007, racked up purses totaling $4,020,517 at the Campbellville oval this summer, nearly half a million
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ISS action continues at Indiana Downs
October 06, 2009
Indiana Downs played host to the second round of Indiana Sires Stakes action for freshman filly pacers Monday, October 5, carding two $30,000 contests. Sawgrass Farms’ Electric Presence captured the first division in 1:55.4 while Steve Carter’s Dark Alley Sally claimed victory with a 1:56 performanc
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Triumphant Caviar, Garcon win Keystone Classic splits
October 06, 2009
Triumphant Caviar followed up his world record performance in Delaware, Ohio, with a crisp, workmanlike-effort that carried him to a facile victory in a Keystone Classic division on Monday at The Meadows. The trotter had been entered in a late-closer at The Red Mile last Friday but was scr
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Canadian Mike MacNeill wins first race at Yonkers
October 06, 2009
Excel Nine gave driver Mike MacNeill his initial Yonkers Raceway victory Monday night, winning the $20,000, fourth race pace with a pocket trip from the pylons.   "(Trainer) Jason Robertson and I know each other very well from Sudbury Downs (in Ontario), and he's been talking about comin
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Giddy Up goes to Harrington winner's circle
October 06, 2009
Larry Baron and David Rovine's Giddy Up Lucky ($3), driven by Vince Copeland, improved to two-for-two at Harrington Raceway in his career with a 1:52.4 triumph in the $25,000 Open Pace on Monday.   The 4-year-old Camluck gelding assumed command before the opening quarter for trainer Josh
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Filly trotters in action in ISS divisions
October 06, 2009
The second week of Grand Circuit action at The Red Mile is also the time for final preps for the upcoming Breeders Crown championships for 2 and 3 year olds at Woodbine, and on Tuesday afternoon it was the freshman filly trotters in action in five $65,800 divisions of the International Stallion Stak
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