News Archive

NYSS prep races offered Monday at Tioga
May 24, 2011
Tioga Downs will offer a matinee live racing card on the Memorial Day holiday, Monday, May 30 with a post time of 1:30 pm.  Included on the condition sheet for that day are a battery of unofficial "Preps" for New York bred 3 year-olds of each sex and gait. These races are designed to insure the
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Rooney, Lismore eligibles in play
May 24, 2011
A trio of Yonkers Raceway stakes eligibles hit town Monday night, getting the lay of the land.In the $12,000, third race, Lismore Pace nominee JK Owhatanite (Jason Bartlett, $3.80) toured the territory by herself. She traversed the mile-and-one-sixteenth distance in a flat two minutes, winning by 14
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From Mississauga to Miami
May 24, 2011
Although he was out of harness racing for more than a decade making a new life for himself in Florida, Brian Gayman couldn't resist the lure of returning to work with the horses when the opportunity recently arose at The Isle Casino Racing Pompano Park. "I'd been out of harness racing for fifteen ye
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Mack Hill tops at Harrington
May 24, 2011
Legacy Racing of De., and Blake Baker’s Mack Hill ($3, Jim Morand) won his ninth consecutive race at Harrington Raceway Monday night with a 1:54.1 triumph.Trained by Wayne Givens, the 6-year-old Armbro Mackintosh hasn’t lost since he was claimed at Dover Downs on February 20 for $10,000.He has won 1
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Big Bad John schools his Meadows elders
May 24, 2011
Big Bad John, a top 3-year-old taking on a field of accomplished older campaigners, was more than up to the task Monday at The Meadows as he sprinted away to a 5-3/4-length victory in the $22,500 Winners Over $10,000 Life/Preferred Handicap Pace. Big Bad John won seven of nine starts at 2, incl
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Packed Molson Pace program
May 24, 2011
This Friday night Western Fair Raceway will conclude their Spring Meet in dramatic fashion with their signature race, the $300,000 final of the Molson Pace featuring several of North America’s top free for all performers.The richest card of the season for the London, Ontario track, the card will als
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Youth Foundation kicks off 2011 tour
May 24, 2011
The Harness Horse Youth Foundation kicked off its summer series of equine education programs with a tour for home-schooled students and their parents at Eash Racing Stable in Greenfield, Indiana (Don and Rosie Eash) on May 18.   Nearly 40 participants met racehorses, broodmares and foals up c
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11 Meadowlands drivers sign letter of support
May 24, 2011
Ten horsemen who drive regularly at the Meadowlands have written an open letter to the harness racing community thanking Jeff Gural and others for their work to secure the future of harness racing at the Meadowlands, and pledging their participation at the track. The letter follows:   Dear Me
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Balmoral Park thanks U.S. military veterans
May 24, 2011
Balmoral Park, Chicagoland’s premier harness horse racing facility is honoring all U.S. Military veterans (both active and retired) this summer with “Vet Bets.”Every Sunday beginning Memorial Day Weekend through Labor Day, all veterans of the U.S. Military will receive a FREE $2 wager good for live
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Condren appreciates timing of HOF honor
May 24, 2011
When Steve Condren received word last week of his induction into Canada’s Horse Racing Hall of Fame, the timing of such news couldn’t have been better. “I recently found out I have cancer, so when I received the call it was pretty special,” said the winner of more than 6,600 races. “The prognosis fr
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Big Jim is strong NJ Classic choice
May 24, 2011
Big Jim, the 2010 two-year-old Dan Patch Award winner, was installed the 8-5 morning line favorite in the $400,000 Anthony Abbatiello New Jersey Classic on Saturday night at Meadowlands Racetrack.  The New Jersey Classic is the first major stakes race of the year for 3-year-old pacers and the r
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See You At Peelers to face the boys in Rooney
May 24, 2011
The undefeated New York-sired filly See You at Peelers will be facing the boys for the first time in her brilliant career, having been one of a half-dozen 3-year-olds entered for Yonkers Raceway’s Art Rooney Pace.The one-dash for the $307,734 event is scheduled for a week from Saturday nig
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