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Jug future wagering opens Aug. 25
August 16, 2011
Future wagering on the Little Brown Jug will be offered twice leading up to the 66th renewal of the 3-year-old pacing classic at the Delaware County Fair.  Each future wager will be for a period of four days. Wagers will be accepted at racetracks and on internet sites throughout North Amer
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We Will See installed as Haughton favorite
August 16, 2011
The $523,000 William R. Haughton Memorial headlines the stakes-laden summer finale at the Meadowlands Racetrack on Saturday, August 20.  In addition to the track's richest event for free for all pacers, the program includes the $363,900 Sweetheart and $317,800 Woodrow Wilson for two-year-olds a
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Insatiable Desire a winner in ISS action
August 16, 2011
Five divisions of freshman filly pacers lined up behind the gate Monday, August 15 at Indiana Downs for the second round of Indiana Sires Stakes competition. Favorites carried the day in three $40,000 splits, led by Insatiable Desire. The Pro Bono Best filly turned in the fastest time, tripping the
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Running ‘Circles’ around the competition for Gold
August 16, 2011
Circles romped in the $130,000 Ontario Sires Stakes Gold Final for freshmen trotting fillies Monday night at Mohawk Racetrack.The two-year-old homebred notched her fourth victory in gate-to-wire fashion for trainer/owner John Smith of Woodlawn, Ont.With Hall of Famer Jacques Hebert in the sulky, Cir
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Sears wins seven at Yonkers, Lew Barasch on tap
August 16, 2011
New York Sire Stakes return downstate Thursday night, with Yonkers Raceway hosting the $251,100 Lew Barasch Trot for 2-year-old colts and geldings.That trotters are on display is a fitting tribute to the memory of "Tootie," whose Harness Racing Hall of Fame career was highlighted by his tenure at
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Crys Dream half sister wins at Mohawk
August 16, 2011
Cest Facile, a half sister to the multiple stakes-winning and recent Hambletonian Oaks third-place finisher Crys Dream, scored her maiden victory Monday night at Mohawk Racetrack. With Luc Ouellette driving, Cest Facile led at every call en route to a 1:59 victory in a $20,000 conditioned event rest
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Perretti Farms announces complete dispersal
August 16, 2011
The complete dispersal of the Perretti Farms equine inventory will occur over a two-year period starting in November of 2011 at Harrisburg. The announcement was made by farm owner William J Perretti.   A total of 160 broodmares will be dispersed at the Harrisburg Mixed Sale on Friday, No
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Settlemoir, Huston to be honored in NY
August 16, 2011
The two newest members of the Upstate New York U.S. Harness Writers Association Harness Racing Hall of Fame representing Tioga Downs are Jason Settlemoir and Roger Huston. After the votes were cast, the chapter members were in total agreement and the honorees will receive their “Empire Pinnacle
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Hurrikane warnings for Nassagaweya
August 16, 2011
Two-year-old pacers will converge on Mohawk Racetrack this Saturday evening for a heavily staked card. Three divisions of the Nassagaweya Stakes for colt pacers and two divisions of the Eternal Camnation for fillies headline the night, with 45 of the best rookie pacers on the continent going head-
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Bergstein gives view of Crys Dream rulings
August 16, 2011
In a column in The Daily Racing Form, Stan Bergstein gives his viewpoint of the situation regarding the 3-year-old filly trotter Crys Dream, who was allowed to race in the Hambletonian Oaks elims and final at the Meadowlands after her connections received a stay from the New Jersey Supreme Court of
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Five entered in Fox Stake
August 16, 2011
A field of five 2-year-old colt pacers will take to the track in the $53,372 Fox Stake, part of the Grand Circuit card slated for Thursday at Indiana Downs. The Grand Circuit racing card, which was scheduled for Aug. 19 at the Indiana State Fair, was moved to Thursday at Ind
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Review action at Springfield in the books
August 16, 2011
Diamond Creek Farm and trainer Erv Miller won three of five Grand Circuit stakes at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield on Tuesday. Miller trains the Review winners Aunt Mel, Polar Opposition and Swan In A Million and Diamond Creek bred and owns Polar Opposition as well as another&
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2YOPC Dapper Dude sets 1:51.2 track mark
August 16, 2011
 Dapper Dude got rolling with a quarter-pole move and didn’t slow down until he crossed the wire in a track-record 1:51.2 in a division of Tuesday’s $242,535 Pennsylvania Sires Stake at The Meadows. The event for freshman colt and gelding pacers, known as the Tyler B, was contested over three d
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