News Archive

Defending NYSS champ Hula's Z Tam wins
June 23, 2010
New York Sire Stakes action continued downstate Tuesday night, with Yonkers Raceway hosting the $282,812 Art Watson Pace for 3-year-old fillies. Four divisions--at $70,703 a pop--went postward through the sporadic spritzing.   Defending NYSS champ Hula's Z Tam (Pat Lachance) elected to s
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Scorpion Moon shines bright at Pocono
June 23, 2010
Scorpion Moon, driven by Jim Morrill Jr., captured the $24,000 Open I Handicap Trot Tuesday night at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs. This marked the second straight victory at the Northeastern Pennsylvania track in this condition, trotting the mile 1:54.1 over a sloppy surface.Grain Of Truth (Tom Jacks
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NYSS 3YOFT to compete Saturday at Yonkers
June 23, 2010
New York Sire Stakes are on tap again at Yonkers Raceway on Saturday night with 3-year-old trotting fillies competing for $280,752.   Saturday night's sire stakes six-pack (races 2,4,6,8,9 and 11) includes several ladies who already flaunt gaudy resumes.   Southwind Samurai (Pat Berry,
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Repeat winners in DSBF splits
June 23, 2010
Three $20,000 divisions of the Delaware Standardbred Breeders Fund (DSBF) stakes for 3 year olds took center stage Tuesday on Miss Delaware night at Harrington Raceway.   Bryan O. Truitt and Bryan J. Truitt’s Iosmio (Bryan Truitt, $7) won the first division, one of three fillies on the night
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Mohawk adds live video streaming of races
June 23, 2010
Woodbine Entertainment Group (WEG) has announced that free live video streaming of its Standardbred simulcast is now available on the Mohawk website.   The move comes just in time for this Saturday night’s $1.5 million Pepsi North America Cup at Mohawk, which features the best 3-year-old co
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NJ-sired 2 years olds debut
June 23, 2010
A group of 58 New Jersey-bred two-year-olds, 34 trotters and 24 pacers, make their pari-mutuel debut this week to become New Jersey Sire Stakes Premier Division Champions for 2010 at The Meadowlands. There will be two divisions each of the trotting fillies and trotting colts and geldings on Th
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Richard Sams named director of Kentucky testing lab
June 23, 2010
HFL Sport Science previously announced that it has been selected by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission to perform drug testing and analysis from February 2011 at its new laboratory facilities in Lexington, Kentucky, the “Horse Capital of the Word.”  HFL is now proud to announce that the inaug
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Rick Sams to head new laboratory in Kentucky
June 23, 2010
Following HFL Sport Science’s announcement that it has been awarded the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission’s drug testing program from 2011, it can now announce that the Laboratory Director is to be Professor Rick Sams - currently  the Program Director at the Florida Racing Laboratory.   D
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Opportunity knocking in Big M PIck 4
June 23, 2010
Meadowlands players will likely have bonus money to aim at in the Pick Four pool this Saturday.  For the first time in 2010, the Meadowlands Pick Four fell short of the guaranteed pool amount on Saturday, June 19. The Meadowlands Pick Four offers a $75,000 guaranteed pool every Saturday,
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Clint Galbraith in rehab recovering from injuries
June 23, 2010
Hall of Fame trainer/driver Clint Galbraith is in an upstate New York rehabilitation facility after a serious head injury on May 16.   Galbraith had returned home from racing four horses at Tioga Downs when he was knocked over and fell to the ground, striking his head. He was admitted to Stro
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Shark Gesture 5-2 favorite in Dan Patch Invite
June 23, 2010
A field of nine will go to post Saturday in the 17th edition of the $200,000 Dan Patch Invitational for older pacers. The race is part of a special evening tagged as Thrillyard 200, presented by the membership of the Indiana Standardbred Association. The evening will also include several divisions o
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