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Trainer-driver Ray Small retiring at Pocono Downs
June 29, 2010
Raymond (Ray) Small of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., will retire from the sport of harness racing Wednesday (June 30).On Wednesday night, he�ll also be celebrating his 79th birthday ry and retirement in the clubhouse at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs. The veteran horseman has been a fixture at the Northeastern Pe
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He's Gorgeous looks the part in NYSS
June 29, 2010
New York Sire Stakes continued at Yonkers Raceway Monday night, with the $278,200 Hugh Grant Pace (3-year-old colts and geldings) in five divisions.It was a 4-H sort of evening...Hazy, Hot, Humid and He's Gorgeous.The defending NYSS champ--and frosh track record-holder--made a mockery of the third (
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Merton gives thanks as winner of Mayflower Mile
June 29, 2010
In what turned out to be a great horse race, Greg Merton drove Tradin Paint to a come-from-behind 1:59.3 victory in Monticello Raceway�s Mayflower Mile on Monday afternoon. The event, for drivers of British extraction, was the sixth preliminary leg in the tracks year-long Heritage Drivers
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Yonkers looking for a name for talking horse
June 29, 2010
Have you ever met a talking horse?...He�ll make a New York City public appearance Wednesday, June 30, from 9 am-1 pm. Empire City Casino at Yonkers Raceway is looking for a name for the talking horse that is featured in television commercials, and a contest is now underway
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15-race all stakes card at Meadows Friday
June 29, 2010
In what may be a first for a non-Adios Day card, The Meadows on Friday, July 2, will offer a 15-race program consisting exclusively of stakes. The card features nine divisions of a Pennsylvania Stallion Series stake for 2-year-old colt and gelding pacers and six splits of a Stallion Series event fo
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15 entered in Yonkers Trot; elims Saturday
June 29, 2010
A total of fifteen 3-year-olds--13 colts and two geldings--were entered for the 56th Yonkers Trot. The first jewel of the Trotting Triple Crown offers a total purse of $653,770. The number of entrants requires a pair of $40,000 elimination races this Saturday night, with the first four fin
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