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HHI to honor Gural, Luchento, Connors, McKee
October 25, 2011
Jeff Gural, Tom Luchento, Jerry Connors and Sam McKee are being honored by Harness Horsemen International with a quartet of awards for 2011.   Gural has been named the recipient of the Dominic Frinzi Person of the Year Award, while Luchento and Connors are being honored with the HHI Appr
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Code Word blazes to Meadows victory
October 25, 2011
Code Word blazed to the front with a 26 opening quarter and never slowed down, capturing Tuesday’s $22,500 Winners Over $10,000 Life/Preferred Handicap Pace at The Meadows in a career-best 1:50.2. When Code Word battled three wide for the lead in that sizzling first panel, it appeared that he m
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See You At Peelers future still undecided
October 25, 2011
Trainer Jimmy Takter told harnessracing.com late Monday that See You At Peelers’ heart rate soared again when checked following her seventh-place finish in her Breeders Crown elimination Saturday night, Oct. 22, at Woodbine Racetrack, and that she will now be turned out for two months before a decis
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Pair of Crown starters prep at Woodbine Monday
October 25, 2011
A pair of older mare trotters scheduled to line up in Saturday's $300,000 Breeders Crown Older Mare Trot at Woodbine Racetrack got in a late prep race Monday night at the Toronto oval. Friendly Amigo and Pembroke Heat Wave finished second and seventh, respectively, as the only two mares in the 10-ho
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David Miller 10th to get to 10,000 wins
October 25, 2011
A strong middle move from Beatgoeson Hanover in the sixth race at Harrah's Chester on Tuesday afternoon gave driver David Miller his 10,000th career win. The 3-year-old daughter of Andover Hall struck the front moving into the far turn, just holding off a late closing Hava Kadabra to
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Remaining two Breeders Crown finals drawn
October 25, 2011
The post position draws for the Breeders Crown Three-Year-Old Colt Pace and the Breeders Crown Trot took place Tuesday, Oct. 25 at WEGZ Stadium Bar in Vaughn, Ont., with the help of George Wilson, of the NFL’s Buffalo Bills.The Colt Pace was the first race drawn with the connections of elimination w
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Smedshammer, Bax talk about foreign trotters
October 25, 2011
When foreign horses Commander Crowe and Rapide Lebel arrive in Toronto for Saturday’s $600,000 Breeders Crown Trot at Woodbine Racetrack, the obstacles to victory go beyond merely facing five rivals. Commander Crowe and Rapide Lebel will need to recover from shipping overseas, get accustomed to unf
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Wolfenden drives 5,000th career winner
October 25, 2011
Harrington Raceway’s leading driver, Ross Wolfenden, notched his 5,000th career win Tuesday night at Harrington aboard Nanticoke Racing and Ron Waller’s Drew Bromac N in the 12th race.It took a strong surge in the final sixteenth of a mile to reel in pacesetter Limpo Nosm to edge clear in a three wa
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Trotting sire Malabar Man dies at age 17
October 25, 2011
Malabar Man, the 2007 Horse of the Year, winner of the Hambletonian that year, and the sire of stakes winners, died Tuesday at Winbak Farm in New York. He was 17 and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2008, when he also made an appearance at the ceremony on the lawn of the Harness Racing Mus
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