News Archive

Rags-to-riches story continues at Dover
March 09, 2010
Gottaservesomebody, Southwind Lynx, Dontloseyourday Job, Wambam Sam, Escapefromalcatraz and Life Up Front won on the power-packed Monday program at Dover Downs.   In the top race for a $40,000 purse, Gottaservesomebody continued his rags-to-riches climb up the ladder of success as Tony Mor
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Nick Callahan hurt in training accident
March 09, 2010
Veteran trainer Nick Callahan has returned to his home in Greenwood, Del., following a weekend training accident and pelvis surgery.   Callahan was completing a training trip behind Tom's Toy, a 4-year-old pacing mare recentty added to the stable. When coming around the final turn his sulky
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McGibson powers to Meadows victory
March 09, 2010
McGibson powered to a front-end score in 1:52.1, the fastest mile this year by a 4-year-old pacing mare on a five-eighths-mile track, in Monday's $25,000 Fillies and Mares Preferred Pace at The Meadows.   As she did in her victory last week, McGibson vaulted to the lead for Dave Palone, cutt
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A Bigmizndrstnding at Western Fair
March 09, 2010
Bigmizndrstnding scored the first victory of his 2010 campaign in Monday’s $13,500(C) Preferred Pace at Western Fair Raceway.   Mike Sumner put the 5-year-old son of No Pan Intended on the front from the start and never looked back to win in 1:57.3. Oakley Seelster, the winner in this class l
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CHHA stallion auction in progress
March 09, 2010
The Christian Harness Horseman’s Association Annual Stallion Auction is in progress at www.ongait.com through Friday March 12th.   Breedings to 29 stallions in Delaware, Indiana, Illinois, Maine, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Ontario have been donated to benefit CHHA’s ministry.&
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Paragon claimed again at Pompano
March 09, 2010
The claiming tug of war for pacer Paragon continued on the Monday evening card at the Isle of Capri Pompano Park.   For this start he was dropped from the Open-3 class back to a $15,000 price tag and scooping up the Cambest-Lola 8-year-old pacer this time was Melvin Fink of Michigan. After tw
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Schadt featured on Big M broadcast
March 09, 2010
Robin Schadt, trainer for the Odds On Racing Stable, will be the featured guest on Meadowlands Racetrack’s Wednesday night pre-card television broadcast.    Schadt will talk about her recent claiming activity, Odds On Moinet’s Tender Loving Care win and more.  Fans can e-mail questi
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Bellamy reaches $2 million
March 09, 2010
Well traveled and focused trainer Ryan Bellamy, 25, is taking in stride the news that he's just surpassed $2 million in career earnings.   "That's a nice number to accomplish at my age but I've already been at it long enough to know the valleys are out there and they seem to come more often t
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Harness Racing Museum needs your help
March 09, 2010
It’s time to update the timeline reader board located in the Delvin Miller Historic Timeline at The Harness Racing Museum & Hall of Fame in Goshen, N.Y. The last historical reference is for 2001 and we invite harness racing fans to help us bring the exhibit up to the present.   Send
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Expenses fraud detailed in Brooks trial
March 09, 2010
Newsday is reporting that the chief financial officer for David Brooks' body-armor company said Monday, March 8, that while Brooks ran the company with an iron fist, including making all financial decisions, he worked with her on a number of schemes to avoid revealing that the company illegally had
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Charles Dillander Jr. dies
March 09, 2010
Charles William Dillander Jr., 64, of Vine Grove, Ky., died March 7, 2010, at Veterans Administration Medical Center in Louisville. Mr. Dillander was a driver, trainer and owner and competed at Louisville Downs and The Red Mile. His last start was in 2002. He is survived by his wife, Becky; sons,
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Meadowlands may be racing only Standardbreds
March 09, 2010
It appears that there will only be Standardbred racing at the Meadowlands in 2010 under an agreement reached Monday night between New Jersey officials and the racing industry. The agreement calls for the elimination of Thoroughbred racing at that track and raced solely at Monmouth Park, which w
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Kentucky Hall of Famer David Goatley dies
March 09, 2010
Kentucky Hall of Fame horseman David Milton Goatley died Saturday, March 6, in Bardstown. He was 91. Mr. Goatley was an elder in the Springfield Presbyterian Church, a U.S. Army veteran of World War II and a member of Springfield Masonic Lodge #50 F&AM. Mr. Goatley and his
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