News Archive

Joe De Fino wins Babic
September 04, 2010
Joe De Fino won the $108,300 Lou Babic for freshman colt pacers at Freehold on Saturday Sept.4. Yannick Gingras was in the bike for trainer Jimmy Takter and owners Christina Takter, John Fielding and the Defino Pyonteck Stable.From post four Gingras sat through an opening panel of :27.1, then sent h
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Dancinwiththestarz, We Will See star in PA
September 04, 2010
World champion Dancinwiththestarz enhanced her status as Pennsylvania’s best pacing filly Saturday as she captured her second straight Sires Stakes championship at The Meadows Racetrack & Casino. She joins Armbro Dancer, Western Graduate and Coulantine as the only back-to-back titlists sinc
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Roadside Delight 1:53.2 NYSS winner
September 04, 2010
Roadside Delight was looking for his third New York Sire Stakes victory in a row on Saturday night at Tioga Downs, but his toughest competition to date was lined up next to him.   Trainer Richard “Nifty” Norman called on Down Under native Andrew McCarthy for the driving assignment and McCarth
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Mystician upsets in million-dollar Metro
September 04, 2010
Mystician, craftily handled by Jody Jamieson, exploded in mid-stretch to pull off a 29-1 shocker in the $1 million Metro Pace, the richest harness race on the continent for two-year-olds, Saturday at Mohawk.   Mystician, who enjoyed a pocket trip behind pacesetter Prodigal Seelster after lea
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Idyllic rides pocket to She's A Great Lady win
September 04, 2010
The Casie Coleman trainees Idyllic and Pretty Katherine finished 1-2 in the $688,000 Shes A Great Lady final, with Idyllic pulling clear to win in 1:53.   Idyllic was sent off the wings of the gate by driver David Miller from post four and cleared to the lead comfortably before the opening qu
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Doc's Yankee headed to Jug after OSS win
September 04, 2010
Northfield Park hosted the Scarlet And Gray Stakes for veteran Ohio-breds Saturday night and the evening started with a bang as Dave Palone steered Tom’s OK Lady ($2.20) to a track-record equaling 1:56 win in the $32,000 Mare Trot.   The record she tied was her own, set in last year’s Scarl
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Won The West wins Derby; Shark breaks
September 04, 2010
Just like last year, Won The West appears to be hitting his best form in the latter half of the year. He raced in the outer tier in the first turn at Mohawk Racetrack Saturday night, then picked up cover and kicked home with a big burst of speed to win the $780,000 Canadian Pacing Derby in 1:51.2 ov
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Simcoes to Muscle Massive, Break The Bank K
September 04, 2010
Hambletonian winner Muscle Massive was back in action at Mohawk Saturday night and jogged to a 1:56.1 victory in a $127,947 Simcoe division. But the biggest news came in the second split when Break The Bank K, who had broken stride in his previous start in a New Jersey Sire Stakes, won by 13 1/2 len
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