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Mister Big, Foiled Again win Quillen elims
October 20, 2009
The third annual Bobby Quillen Memorial eliminations at Harrington Raceway were contested Monday as Joseph Muscara’s Mister Big ($2.40, Brian Sears) and Burke Racing, Weaver Bruscemi LLC and JJK Stables’ Foiled Again ($4.60, Yannick Gingras) each won their respective divisions.   The Ron
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Sears looks back at Muscle Hill on Crown eve
October 20, 2009
Brian Sears is having the time of his life with 3-year-old trotting superstar Muscle Hill. The time, though, has almost passed too quickly. On Saturday, Sears and Muscle Hill will attempt to complete a perfect season in the $600,000 Breeders Crown at Woodbine Racetrack. Muscle Hill has won all 11 of
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Sportswriter ready to make Crown headlines
October 20, 2009
Mark MacDonald says Sportswriter is the best 2 year old he has ever driven. He might be even more than that. MacDonald and Sportswriter enter Saturday’s $700,000 Breeders Crown for 2-year-old colt pacers with a perfect seven-for-seven record and world-record performance in the $1 million Metro
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Breeders Crowns to be carried on Sirius radio
October 20, 2009
The Breeders Crown, harness racing's greatest night, will be carried Saturday on a two-hour special edition of Sirius XM radio’s “Race of the Week.” The show will air from 9 to 11 p.m. (EDT) and can be heard on Sirius Channel 126 and XM Channel 243.   The two-hour show was made poss
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Captain Sully lands another at The Meadows
October 20, 2009
Captain Sully made a confident move to the front past the quarter pole, and strode out to an effortless, two-length victory in a division of the A.W. Capone Memorial Series for freshman colt and gelding trotters on Monday at The Meadows, stamping himself as the favorite in next week’s $20,000 added
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Muscle Hill lands post one in Crown final; Well Said gets nine
October 20, 2009
Muscle Hill, on the verge of setting a new single-season earnings mark, drew post one for Saturday’s $600,000 Breeders Crown final for 3-year-old colt trotters at Woodbine at a press conference held Tuesday afternoon at the racetrack. The son of Muscles Yankee comes into the race riding a 19-race wi
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Luchento re-elected SBOANJ president
October 20, 2009
Thomas F. Luchento was re-elected president of the Standardbred Breeders & Owners Association of New Jersey (SBOANJ) when the board of directors re-organized after the group’s annual membership meeting on Monday, Oct. 19, at the Holiday Inn Conference Center in East Windsor, N.J.   L
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