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Prairie Meadows to race 10 harness dates in 2010
January 15, 2010
Prairie Meadows in Iowa on Thursday received approval to race a 10-date Standardbred meet from Oct. 1-16, with $55,000 per day in purses. The track will also race a 67-date Thoroughbred meet from April 24-Aug. 7 and a 26-day Quarter Horse meet from Aug. 13-Sept. 25, the first time the two breeds wer
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Maronite N wins Dover feature
January 15, 2010
Maronite N made his first visit of the New Year to the Dover Downs' winner's circle after a 1:55 victory in a $14,500 pace on Thursday. Jim Morand and Mike Cole had three winning drives each.   With Tim Curtin at the controls, Go Get'em Stable's Maronite N was strongest in the stretch
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Kims Quest takes Blizzard
January 15, 2010
  Kims Quest grabbed control of the racetrack early and then stole her way to a 1:54.3 victory in the $60,000 Blizzard Pacing Series final for 3 and 4-year-old fillies and mares on Thursday night at Woodbine Racetrack.   The sophomore daughter of Royal Mattjesty - Michelles Destiny was
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Zeron zeroing in on 7,000
January 15, 2010
After piloting Semjac Legacy to victory in Thursday night’s seventh race at Woodbine, driver Rick Zeron moved himself to within one win of 7,000 lifetime. The veteran reinsman will enter Friday night’s program needing just a single victory to reach the career milestone.   Zeron is listed to
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All smiles for Laughandbehappy in White Ruffles
January 15, 2010
Laughandbehappy takes White Ruffles split. (Michael Lisa/Lisa Photo)
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Hanover's George "Greasy" Grissinger dies
January 15, 2010
George Grissinger, a longtime employee at Hanover Shoe Farms, died Thursday after a long and courageous fight against lung cancer. Known affectionately as “Greasy,” Grissinger was 66. He had worked continuously at Hanover since 1972.   Grissinger took care of Hanover’s number one st
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Dobson takes aim at Mighty M driving title
January 15, 2010
Winning races is nothing new to Billy Dobson. Last year alone he won 290 times. Though his wins are plentiful rarely does he win five on a single program like he did at Monticello Raceway on Thursday afternoon.   Dobson started the day slowly and didn’t visit the winner's circle until he won
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Malek Hanover owner Allison Derrah dies
January 15, 2010
He got to see his horse Malek Hanover race--for the second time--at the Meadowlands Thursday night. However, 54-year-old Allison Derrah died around noon on Friday, Jan. 15, in his hospital bed in New Brunswick, Canada.   Trainer Bo Sowers, who handled six horses for Mr. Derrah&
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Put your harness eye on handicapping at the Big M
January 15, 2010
It’s not exactly the cavalry, but help has arrived in handicapping the races at the Meadowlands in the form of Harness Eye editor Derick Giwner, whose picks are now available by clicking the Harness Eye icon located midway down the home page of harnessracing.com.   The weekend races at the Bi
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