News Archive

Stakes double for Wrenn in White Ruffles
January 08, 2010
Michigan-based Peter Wrenn, one of Meadowlands Racetrack’s leading drivers in the mid-90s, scored a stakes double when he returned to the track Thursday night. Wrenn guided his homebred mare Amarillo Sky to a late-rallying victory in the sixth race, one of four $12,500 White Ruffles Series divi
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Miss Sand Creek overcomes second tier
January 08, 2010
Miss Sand Creek overcame a second-tier post position to capture her second straight $20,000 leg of the Blizzard Pacing Series for 3- and 4-year-old pacing fillies and mares tonight at Woodbine, while A Pippin Hanover made a late rush to capture her division of the same series. Favorite Spirit To
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Tetrick to take questions from fans Saturday
January 08, 2010
Tim Tetrick will answer racing fans' questions live on Meadowlands Racetrack's Saturday night television broadcast. E-mail questions for "The Bionic Man" to racing@thebigm.com. The broadcast begins at 6:40 p.m. Can't make it to the track? Watch it live on the Internet: http://www.meadowlandsracetr
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Southwind acquires interest in Sportswriter
January 08, 2010
Southwind Farms, home to world champion trotters Muscle Hill and Chocolatier, has acquired an interest in world champion Sportswriter p, 2,1:49.2 ($815,680) from owners Steve Calhoun and West Wins Stable (Casie Coleman/Ross Warriner/Zoltan Kovacs) for an undisclosed amount.   Sportswrite
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Western Hanover now all time money-producing sire
January 08, 2010
The late Western Hanover, who stood his entire career at stud at Hanover Shoe Farms in Pennsylvania, is now the all time money-producing sire of all equine breeds, having eclipsed Abercrombie thanks to the earnings of progeny which raced in 2009. Abercrombie had led the list
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Zeron 6 wins away from 7,000
January 08, 2010
Driver Rick Zeron added another win to his total on Thursday night at Woodbine to bring his lifetime count to 6,994, just six away from the career milestone of 7,000 wins.   In the first race on the 11-race card, Zeron piloted Tony O’Sullivan trainee Born Believer to a 4 1/4-length vic
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WEG announces 2010 stakes schedule
January 08, 2010
Woodbine Entertainment Group (WEG) has announced its lucrative 2010 Standardbred stakes schedule, which includes the 27th edition of the $1.5 million Pepsi North America Cup at Mohawk. The calendar, worth over $20 million in stakes finals this year, is again the richest and most attractive on
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Updates for Tattersalls horses now online
January 08, 2010
The Tattersalls Horse Sales Company has posted updated race lines on its website at http://www.tattersallsredmile.com/tsalls/mixed/index.htm for the upcoming Meadowlands Mixed Sale on Monday, Jan. 18.   More than 100 of the horses cataloged have raced or qualified in the last 1
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