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Lady Rainbow eyes Moni Maker pot of gold
September 14, 2011
Hambletonian Oaks runner-up Lady Rainbow will be looking for her first 2011 win in the $233,400 Moni Maker Stake for 3-year-old trotting fillies on Friday evening at The Meadows.   Her 0-for-8 record, with runner-up honors in the Hambletonian Oaks, Simcoe Stakes, American National a
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Red Mile late-closers due Sept. 15; error in #14
September 14, 2011
Nominations for the late-closing events during the upcoming Grand Circuit meet at The Red Mile must be postmarked and are due by Thursday, Sept. 15, and race office officials note that the conditions for late-closer #14 contain a typographical error in advertisements that have been published.
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See You At Peelers to race Monday at Yonkers
September 14, 2011
See You At Peelers will look to get back to her winning ways on Monday (Sept. 19) when she races in a division of the New York Sire Stakes at Yonkers Raceway.   The 3-year-old filly pacer won the first 22 races of her career before finishing sixth in the Nadia Lobell at The Meadows on August
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"Beach" yearling brings $110,000 in Australia
September 14, 2011
The first yearling foal by Somebeachsomewhere to be sold in the Southern Hemisphere topped the auction last weekend at Rob and Julie Van Dyke's Pepper Tree Farm Spring Sale in the state of New South Wales in Australia. The colt was sold for $110,000 to Tony Xerri. Based on presen
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Winbak Select Sale to be held Friday
September 14, 2011
The seventh annual Winbak Select Sale is set for this coming Friday, Sept. 16, at 1 pm at Winbak's Delaware farm. Winbak is offering 41 Delaware-eligible yearlings and seven by Pennsylvania-based sires. The sale features the last offspring of the ill-fated Sho
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Lexington Selected Sale has iPad catalog
September 14, 2011
Lexington Selected Yearling Sales Company LLC, in conjunction with The Jockey Club Information Systems Inc., introduces the release of the 2011 Lexington Selected Yearling Sale Catalog for the iPad.   The Equineline Sales Catalog app, which can be downloaded free from the App Store on iPad or
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Tioga Downs honors best of 2011
September 14, 2011
Although the Tioga Downs’ race season was cut three days short due to the devastating flooding in the local area, awards for Trotter of the Year, Pacer of the Year, Driver of the Year and Trainer of the Year are still being issued.   Hometown favorite Aruba Vacation took home 2011 Trotter of
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CTC magic for once-in-a-lifetime horse?
September 14, 2011
David Lemon has waited 40 years for a horse like Daylon Magician and on Saturday, the homebred colt will go to post in the biggest race of both their careers, the $1 million Canadian Trotting Classic at Mohawk Racetrack.   It was about two years ago when Lemon made the decision to retire fr
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Field set for Quillen Memorial at Harrington
September 14, 2011
The draw has been completed for the fifth annual $335,000 Bobby Quillen Memorial Final. Eight of harness racing’s top older pacers will go postward in one of the year’s most prestigious events for older horses on Monday, Sept. 19.   Defending champion Foiled Again drew the rail for the R
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Trainers offer analysis of Trotting Classic
September 14, 2011
The race for 3-year-old male trotter of the year heats up Saturday night with the C$1 million Canadian Trotting Classic at Mohawk Racetrack in Ontario. Stakes-winners Broad Bahn, Dejarmbro, Manofmanymissions and Whiskey Tax – the four richest 3-year-old trotters in North America this season – a
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Takter talks about his Wellwood finalists
September 14, 2011
Jimmy Takter will send three horses into Saturday’s C$469,000 William Wellwood Memorial at Mohawk Racetrack in Ontario, including elimination winner Little Brown Fox, who finished a half-length ahead of stablemate Weingartner in 1:56.3. Joining those two in the final from the Takter Stable is Nothin
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Don Anderson the inspiration behind Aunt Mel
September 14, 2011
Mike and Mary Jane Anderson got into harness racing as a tribute to Mike’s dad, and those tributes are extending to aunts and adopted uncles these days. And the aunt’s namesake, Aunt Mel, is starting to make the family proud.   Aunt Mel, a 2-year-old filly trotter that is one of two
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