News Archive

NZ's Dunn keeps lead in World Driving tourney
August 03, 2011
New Zealand’s Dexter Dunn, despite not winning one of the four races contested in round three of the World Driving Championship at Monticello Raceway on Wednesday afternoon (August 3), maintained the lead through 12 races in the 20-race series. The 25th championship is being hosted by the U.S. Tro
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226G NYSS Scarsdale Trot at Yonkers
August 03, 2011
New York Sire Stakes continued downstate Tuesday night, with Yonkers Raceway hosting the $226,510 Scarsdale Trot for 3-year-old fillies.Five, $435,302 divisions--two on the card, three off--went postward. The first wagering event saw Stell R Time (Jordan Stratton, $8) get up on the money from second
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Amanda Pontone to sing Anthem at Hambo
August 03, 2011
Amanda Pontone, the 18-year-old daughter of TLP Stables' Tom Pontone, has been lined up to sing the National Anthem at the opening ceremonies of Saturday afternoon's Hambletonian day card at the Meadowlands. Amanda recently sang the Star Spangled Banner at her high school graduation ceremony, and th
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Saratoga handle up 17.2 percent this year
August 03, 2011
Saratoga Casino and Raceway is reporting a robust 17.2 percent increase in handle from all sources on its live racing product for the first half of its 2011 season over a like period in 2010. Simulcast Director Don Hoover reported that off-track handle on Saratoga’s live racing has surged 24 percen
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Former US special agent taking a shot
August 03, 2011
 As a rule, Frank DeLiberti is a pretty even-keeled guy. But Magnum Kosmos turned his owner into Cosmo Kramer, or Kosmos Kramer, as the case may be. As Saturday’s Hambletonian eliminations took place, DeLiberti looked like he was reenacting an episode of “Seinfeld,” when a frenzied Kramer beat
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Owner says he's not nervous about Hambo
August 03, 2011
Richard Gutnick knows he should be nervous. But for some reason, he isn’t. Maybe it is the fact that his horse, Chapter Seven, has overcome enough health issues in his career that trying to win the biggest harness racing event of the year will almost pale in comparison.   It won’t,
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TwinSpires.com offers $10K Hambo Players' Pool
August 03, 2011
TwinSpires.com is offering for the first time ever a Players’ Pool for its members on Saturday afternoon’s Hambletonian day card at the Meadowlands. TwinSpires’ resident harness handicapper Frank Cotolo will handicap the card and make wagers utilizing the funds in the pool, with the participants sha
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Bartlett, Anderson to return to driving Friday
August 03, 2011
With Yonkers Raceway hosting Friday night's fifth and final round of the 2011 World Driving Championship, this next bit of Friday news might bounce below the radar...but not at Yonkers. Drivers Ryan Anderson and Jason Bartlett are both set to return--coincidentally, in the same (third) race. Anderso
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