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Southwind Jazmin's 1:53 leads NYSS
July 22, 2011
New York Sire Stakes hit Yonkers Raceway on Thursday night, with the track hosting the $232,330 Mount Vernon Pace for 3-year-old fillies. Five divisions--including two off the card--were on display.   Southwind Jazmin (Jeff Gregory) turned in the night's fastest effort, two-moving for a
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Canadian Donnie Simmonds to be honored at Jug
July 22, 2011
Canadian Donnie Simmonds, a longtime friend of the Little Brown Jug, is the 2011 Joe Neville Award winner.  Delaware Fair officials will honor Simmonds during Jug Day ceremonies in the winner’s Circle. Simmonds died in May of 2010.   Simmonds, a native of Prince Edward Island and a membe
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Braden Watson awarded HHI scholarship
July 22, 2011
Braden A.Watson, 19, has been awarded the 2011 Harness Horsemen International Jerome L. Hauck Scholarship, worth $4,000. He is the son of David and Brenda Watson of Fairfield, IL.   Braden graduated from Fairfield Community High School in 2009 and from Frontier (Fairfield) Community College i
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Crys Dream can race in New Jersey
July 22, 2011
Crys Dream can race in the Hambletonian Oaks, or the Hambletonian. On Friday afternoon the New Jersey Supreme Court granted a stay regarding the ruling of the filly’s ineligibility by the New Jersey Racing Commission. The Supreme Court’s order, which was signed by Chief Justice Stuart Rabner, clears
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Campbell to address World Trotting Conference
July 22, 2011
Hall of Fame driver John Campbell, who has been recuperating following a racing accident this past May 30, has agreed to deliver the keynote speech at the opening of the 22nd World Trotting Conference.   Campbell, who is the all-time leader in the sport in terms of money won, will welcome the
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Meadowlands "In The Sulky" lineup
July 22, 2011
Trainer Tom Durand will sit In The Sulky Friday night to discuss his Hambletonian hopeful Whiskey Tax, who will go postward in the New Jersey Sire Stakes that evening. On Saturday, New Zealand racing commentator Jess Davidson is the featured television guest.   Fans can e-mail questions for D
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Teague gives his take on his Adios contenders
July 22, 2011
Billy Haughton, Stanley Dancer, Joe O'Brien and Brett Pelling are the only trainers in the 45-year history of the Delvin Miller Adios to win the "Pace for the Orchids" in consecutive years. (Actually, Haughton won three straight from 1967-69 and Pelling went back to back twice in 1995-96 and 20
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Antonacci elected to Harness Racing Museum board
July 22, 2011
The annual meeting of the trustees of The Harness Racing Museum & Hall of Fame, located in Goshen, NY, was held on Hall of Fame Day, Sunday, July 3, 2011. At the meeting, trustees Hugh "Andy" Grant, a member of the board since 1978, and Stanley Bergstein, a trustee since 1980, retired and were e
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Advice from a vet on dealing with heat
July 22, 2011
Harrah’s Chester has cancelled racing its harness racing program for Friday afternoon due to the extreme heat. While shipping and racing horses in the heat can cause health problems for horses, there are some steps that can be taken to make sure a horse does not suffer from competing in the heat.&nb
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Scarborough cancels Friday program
July 22, 2011
Due to extreme temperatures and an elevated heat index in southern Maine, the Friday afternoon harness racing program has been cancelled at Scarborough Downs. The decision to cancel was made in concert with leaders of the harness racing industry as well as preeminent equine practitioners in the stat
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Ontario Sire Stakes 2YOCT rescheduled
July 22, 2011
The cancellation of the races at Mohawk Racetrack by Woodbine Entertainment Group on Thursday (July 21) due to the extreme heat wave hitting Ontario caused the cancellation of the Ontario Sires Stake Gold eliminations for 2-year-old colt trotters scheduled for that day. According to the decision o
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Yonkers features to Breakheart Pass, KLM Express
July 22, 2011
Pocket-sitting Breakheart Pass (Jim Pantaleano) proved best Friday night, winning Yonkers Raceway's co-featured $52,000 Filly and Mare Open Handicap Pace.   In play early from an assigned post position No. 3, Breakheart Pass went around Monochromatic (Cat Manzi), taking over before a 27-secon
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Leanback Coco wins at Tioga
July 22, 2011
On Friday night at Tioga Downs, Leanback Coco and Phil Fluet captured the featured $18,000 fillies and mares open handicap pace. No stranger to the winner’s circle on Friday night’s, Leanback Coco made her fourth trip in her last five starts in Tioga’s featured Friday night race. Assigned post posit
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Moira's Bliss scores 1:53.3 Scioto triumph
July 22, 2011
It took a long time for Moira’s Bliss to get the lead but then she refused to give it up and won the featured Fillies and Mares pace at Scioto Downs on Friday night. She scored for driver Ryan Stahl in 1:53.3.   Noble Zena left alertly from the inside post position in the field of six, but sh
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See You At Peelers goes for 21 straight Thursday
July 22, 2011
Perhaps "Perfection Personified" only works for persons, but we're prepared to take some literary license in the case of See You at Peelers.   Harness racing's Number One storyline makes another Yonkers Raceway visit Thursday night, flaunting her 20-for-20 career resume (4-for-4 here) in the
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Hambo eligible Whit wins in NJSS action
July 22, 2011
Hambletonian hopeful Whit wore down the leader Zooming in the final strides to win the first of two $22,000 New Jersey Sire Stakes divisions for 3-year-old trotting colts on Friday night at Meadowlands Racetrack.   Whit, driven by Tim Tetrick, lowered his mark by six full seconds to 1:52.4 w
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Malinka sets stakes record in PA Stallion Series
July 22, 2011
On a stormy night at The Meadows, Malinka avoided the rain — and the rest of the field — as she cruised to an easy front-end victory in a stake-record 1:54.1 in a division of Friday’s $160,000 Pennsylvania Stallion Series event.   The stake for 2-year-old filly pacers was conducted over eight
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