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Pacing colts lead Lexington in dollars
October 12, 2009
This year’s Lexington Selected Sale finished on Sunday and the numbers fell about how sale managers expected. A total of 792 yearlings were sold for a gross of $27.7 million. When horses which had reserves on them are taken out of the total, the average works out to $35,003. That’s a drop of 13.6 pe
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Indiana yearling sale up 10 percent
October 12, 2009
With slots-enhanced purses and a breed development program that recently announced it will sweeten an already lucrative pot to the tune of $2.5 million next year, interest in the Indiana harness racing couldn’t be higher. The renewed focus on the Hoosier State was reflected in yearling prices at Ind
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Meadows moves to afternoon post
October 12, 2009
The Meadows Racetrack & Casino will shift to a 4:05 pm post time beginning the week of Monday, Nov. 2. It will also Fridays to its live racing schedule (pending Pennsylvania Harness Racing Commission approval).   With the changes, The Meadows will offer live racing each Mon
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Windsong Espoir being syndicated by Walnut Hall Ltd.
October 12, 2009
Windsong Espoir 2,1:55.3 ($763,230), Canada’s Two-Year-Old Trotting Colt of 2007, has been syndicated by Walnut Hall Ltd. and will stand at Westwind Farm in Ontario for a fee of $3,500 (Canadian). The announcement was made by Alan J. Leavitt, president of Walnut Hall Ltd.   Leavitt stated tha
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Bulletproof pulls the trigger with 2 supplements
October 12, 2009
"It’s the Breeders Crown,” said Bulletproof Stable owner Jeffrey Brooks. “It’s a night like no other…we have to be there.”  The “we” in question are just two of the stable’s brilliant homebred pacing fillies, Yellow Diamond (in photo) and Shacked Up.     Any hesitation in writing a
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