News Archive

Future Night Train fastest OBC winner
September 21, 2010
JJ Hall, Lima Legend and Future Night Train won divisions of Monday’s $54,924 Ohio Breeders Championship 2-Year-Old Colt Trot at the Delaware County Fair. JJ Hall trotted in 2:00-flat and gave driver Chip Noble his 97th victory at the Delaware County Fair with his win in the first OBC  division
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Picasso Spur paints 18-1 masterpiece in Keystone Classic
September 21, 2010
Brushed off at 18-1, Picasso Spur made his maiden win a memorable one Monday at The Meadows by scoring an upset victory in a Keystone Classic division. The $103,402 stake for freshman colt and gelding trotters was contested over three divisions, with Haulin Laser and Kash’s Cantab taking the ot
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Chip Noble Scores 98th Victory at Delaware, OH
September 21, 2010
Xenia’s Chip Noble scored his 98th career victory at the Delaware County Fair to move within one win of the late Wayne (Curly) Smart.   Noble won Tuesday’s third race with She’s Not Red for his third victory of the 2010 Delaware meeting and the 4,815th of his career.  Noble’s first win of
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Charlino named to drive Just Crowned in Jug
September 21, 2010
Post time for Thursday's Little Brown Jug card at the Delaware, Ohio fairgrounds has been moved up 10 minutes, with the first race of the day now set for 10:50 a.m. The first of the three Little Brown Jug eliminations has an approximate post time of 4 p.m.   In the Jug elims, Dan Charlino has
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Average price drops at Ohio Jug sale
September 21, 2010
The annual Ohio Selected Jug Sale was held Monday night at the Eden Park Equestrian Complex not far from Delaware, and it served as a reminder that solutions to improve the long-term health of Ohio’s harness racing industry have still not been implemented despite hopeful signs.  A total of 117
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Kallas talking harness racing & sports on radio
September 21, 2010
Steve Kallas, a correspondent for this website and The Horseman And Fair World magazine, as well as a Standardbred owner, has his own weekly radio show at WVOX 1460 AM in New Rochelle, New York.  The Steve Kallas Show, a one-hour sports-talk show, can be heard nationally at WVOX.com e
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Holiday Road wins Red Mile qualifier
September 21, 2010
Holiday Road, who has not made a pari-mutuel start since making a break and finishing last in the Hambletonian final in early August at the Meadowlands, won a qualifier at The Red Mile Thursday morning in 1:57.1. A recall was first needed in the qualifier as Holiday Road's safety snap to the shaft o
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Strike An Attitude's 1:52.2 sets Keystone mark
September 21, 2010
Strike An Attitude made the front with a dazzling quarter-pole move and didn’t stop smoking until she crossed the wire in 1:52,2, fastest mile ever for a freshman filly pacer at The Meadows, in a division of Tuesday’s Keystone Classic.   The Keystone Classic--with a total purse of $126,400--w
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NYSS championships set for Saturday
September 21, 2010
Post positions have been drawn for Saturday's $1.6 million New York Night of Champions, with Yonkers Raceway hosting the richest night of racing in the state. Eight, $200,000 sire stakes finals--for 2- and 3-year-olds of both sexes and gaits--comprise the 21st edition of the Empire State's showcase
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