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Chicago tracks honor top driver/trainers
January 09, 2012
With the 2011 season in the books Balmoral Park and Maywood Park honored their leading driver and trainers this past weekend. Youngster Marcus Miller was a runaway winner in the drivers' standings at both tracks while longtime conditioner Robert Phillips notched his first training title at the
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Victory Is Coming takes top Meadows mare trot
January 09, 2012
Victory Is Coming controlled the mile with a quarter-pole move but had to dig in late to preserve her victory in Monday’s $22,500 Filly & Mare Preferred Handicap Trot at The Meadows.   Victory Is Coming charged to the front for Mike Wilder and discouraged the early challengers. When Anast
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Owner Lloyd Arnold dies at age 83
January 09, 2012
Lloyd Arnold, 83, a longtime Standardbred owner and former racetrack operator, died Jan. 8. Mr. Arnold owned many top horses over the years, including the former world champion Warm Breeze in the late 1970s-early 1980s. More recently, he campaigned the top free-for-all pacing mare Sanabelle Isl
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Wisconsin to honor Jeanne Marquis
January 09, 2012
The Wisconsin Harness Horse Association will hold its awards banquet on Jan. 21 in Madison Wisconsin at the Howard Johnson Plaza Hotel on East Washington Avenue.  Numerous awards will be given including the Horseperson of the Year Award.  Each year the President of the WHHA chooses the rec
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Stud breedings available to benefit SRF
January 09, 2012
The Standardbred Retirement Foundation (SRF) has received gifts of  many breeding donations for the 2012 season, including breedings to the stallions Glidemaster, Badlands Hanover, Lucky Chucky, Mach Three, Rocknroll Heaven, Yankee Glide and many more. Both donations and purchases of breed
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Brennan named HTA Driver of the Year
January 09, 2012
George Brennan, the 44-year-old driver from Monticello, N.Y., is Harness Tracks of America’s Driver of the Year for 2011, the rigorous achievement that remains the most difficult in the sport of harness racing to win. Hard evidence again this year is the fact that of 3,631 drivers who competed for
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Judge delays decision in Pena case
January 09, 2012
Judge Stanley Chesler, hearing the request of trainer Lou Pena for a temporary restraining order of his exclusion from competing at the Meadowlands Racetrack, opted to reserve his decision after a hearing Monday at Federal District Court in Newark, NJ.   Theresa Trivino, clerk to Chesler, con
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Keep On Flirtin wins Pompano feature in 1:51.1
January 09, 2012
The 5-year-old mare Keep On Flirtin had less than $65,000 in career earnings heading into Monday evening's Mares Open Handicap Pace on January 9 at The Isle Casino Racing Pompano Park. In the end, she wasn't intimidated one bit by the combined life's earnings of more than $1.5 million
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