News Archive

Hanover's Adios sale yearling videos available
July 18, 2011
The Hanover Shoe Farms videos for the farm's yearlings selling at The Meadows on Friday, July 29, are now available at the Hanover website hanoverpa.com.  To access the videos, please select the year of foaling (2010) and the sale location (2011 Hanover Adios) and they will be available. (
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Hanovers in the books at Balmoral Park
July 18, 2011
Eight divisions of Hanover Stakes were contested on Saturday night at Balmoral Park. With 27 two-year-old colt pacers dropped in the box for their respective Hanover a total of three divisions, each with a purse of $25,800, were contested.    In the opening split trainer S
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See You At Peelers: "She wasn't herself"
July 18, 2011
Trainer Jimmy Takter told harnessracing.com Monday morning that while See You At Peelers was able to emerge from Saturday night’s $127,000 Tarport Hap at the Meadowlands with her 20-race win streak intact, the filly came up sick the following morning. “All day Sunday she was colicky and didn’t fee
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Running Aces hopes to resume racing Saturday
July 18, 2011
Running Aces Harness Park hopes to resume the 2011 season this Saturday (July 23) as the state of Minnesota budget impasse, which has idled the Minnesota Racing Commission and a host of other state agencies since July 1, appears to be nearing a resolution. An “agreement in principle” between the G
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2YO trotting colt Pekoe Fashion 1:57.2 winner
July 18, 2011
Pekoe Fashion enjoyed a splendid career debut in a division of Monday’s $120,000 Pennsylvania Stallion Series event at The Meadows, making a quarter-pole move like a veteran and destroying the field by 16 lengths in a stakes-record time of .1:57.2.   The stake for 2-year-old colt and gel
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2YO filly Apogee Hanover takes Ontario Gold
July 18, 2011
With Rick Zeron picking up the catch-drive, Apogee Hanover scored her first career victory in the $130,000 Ontario Sire Stakes Gold final Monday night at Mohawk in 1:52.3.   Making just her second-career start, the daughter of Jeremes Jet was in no hurry in the early going as Legal Entity (Lu
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Go Go Dancer wins Tompkins-Geers at Tioga
July 18, 2011
The Tompkins–Geers Grand Circuit rounded out its four-day race weekend on Monday evening at Tioga Downs. One lone $65,910 division for 3-year old filly trotters brought the curtain down on Grand Circuit action.   Go Go Dancer and Brian Mattison weres sent off as the prohibitive race favorite
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Burgess adds riding to Il Villagio's routine
July 18, 2011
Il Villaggio may not be the most experienced trotter in this Saturday’s Maple Leaf Trot at Mohawk Racetrack, but one thing is certain, he has speed. The Blair Burgess pupil is the youngest trotter in field at four, but he has equaled the nation’s fastest trotting mile of the season with a 1:51.4 per
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