News Archive

City Delight sets track record in NYSS
September 01, 2010
August may be done, but the state-breds' stay continues. Tuesday night, Yonkers Raceway offered up the $236,456 Frank Becerra Pace for 2-year-old  fillies. Four divisions, at $59,614 a pop, went postward.A night after Jason Bartlett guided Anndrovette to a new local record for 3-year-old pacing
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Special Sunday night card at Mohawk
September 01, 2010
Racing fans are reminded that Mohawk Racetrack will host a special Sunday program of racing this weekend with first post scheduled for 7:30 p.m. The featured event will be the Simcoe Stakes for the top 3-year-old pacing fillies in North America.   Horsemen are asked to note that the draw for
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Don't Know Chip wins Pocono feature
September 01, 2010
Don’t Know Chip, driven by Tyler Buter, won the $24,000 open handicap trot at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs Tuesday night.Buter, leaving from the No. 1 post, was sixth at the opening quarter with Speed Bomb (Matt Kakaley) showing the way. First split was timed in 27 seconds and half in 56.3 with Speed
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Big cheering section for Big Jim in Metro
September 01, 2010
Longtime horse owner Jim Carr has a million reasons to be excited about this coming Saturday night as his colt, Big Jim will headline the $1 million Metro Pace at Mohawk Racetrack.If Big Jim should be victorious in the event, the Hamilton, Ont. resident would love nothing more then to see the winner
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Big night at Northfield on Saturday
September 01, 2010
The combination of four Scarlet and Gray Stakes for veteran Ohio-bred pacers and trotters, and the Ohio Sire Stakes for 3-year-old colts and gelding of both gaits, make Saturday, Sept. 4, Northfield’s richest night of racing in 2010, with $260,000 in purses on the 14-race card which kicks off at 7 p
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Hanover NJ Classic videos now available
September 01, 2010
The Hanover Shoe Farms videos for those yearlings selling at the New Jersey Classic on Sunday, September 12 are now available at the Hanover website www.hanoverpa.com.  To access the videos please select the year of foaling (2009) and the sale location (NJ Classic) and they will be available.
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Muscle Massive returns in Saturday Simcoe
September 01, 2010
Muscle Massive, making his first appearance since winning the $1.5 million Hambletonian Aug. 7 at the Meadowlands, will start from post seven in the first of two $127,947 Simcoe divisions Saturday night at Mohawk Racetrack. Also in that race are Ontario Sire Stakes Gold winner Text Me and Stanley Da
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Vintage Master scratched from Canadian Pacing Derby
September 01, 2010
Vintage Master, who was scheduled to compete in this Saturday's $780,000 Canadian Pacing Derby at Mohawk Racetrack, has been withdrawn after spiking a fever.   The 4-year-old son of Western Ideal-Vintage Art was one of three horses to accept a bye straight into the final after last competing
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California woman looking for first harness win
September 01, 2010
Karen Isbell is looking to put herself into the record books at Cal-Expo on Friday night as she attempts to add a harness winner’s circle picture to the ones she already has for guiding Thoroughbreds, Arabians, Quarter Horses and Mules to victory.   Isbell is scheduled to make her pari-m
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KY racetrack foe running for governor
September 01, 2010
Kentucky state senator David Williams, who has been adamantly opposed to any expansion of gaming at Kentucky racetracks, has announced that he is running for governor in 2011, and that his running mate will be Richie Farmer, the state's current Commissioner of Agriculture and a former University of
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Jug to be limited to 24 horses in 2012
September 01, 2010
Starting in 2012,  for the 67th Little Brown Jug,  the maximum number of starters will be 24.  This is a reduction from the current limit of 30 starters.   Beginning in 2012, if more than 24 horses declare in to start, the field will be limited to the 24 horses with the highest
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Chocolatier filly wins $100,000 NJSS final
September 01, 2010
Pilgrims Truffles, a daughter of Chocolatier, won the biggest race of her young career with a 2:00.2 victory in the $100,000 New Jersey Sire Stakes Premium Division championship final for 2-year-old trotting fillies today at Freehold Raceway.   With Jim Meittinis driving, the filly sat second
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Jezzy wins by 13, sets track record
September 01, 2010
If Jezzy isn’t the best 2-year-old trotting filly in the country at this time, then she is definitely among the best. On the hot and sunny afternoon of Sept. 1,  the undefeated daughter of Credit Winner  jogged  to yet another easy victory, winning her division of the$160,000 New
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