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Here's My Ticket fastest in DSBF splits
June 13, 2012
Round two of the Delaware Standardbred Breeders Fund (DSBF) stakes for 3-year-old pacing fillies that included three $20,000 divisions, were the main attraction on the Tuesday Harrington Raceway program.   Designer Bags ($5.40, Allan Davis) won the first division after her usual
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Woodbine's Eaves talks about slots, racing
June 13, 2012
The Woodbine Entertainment Group, the largest business in the Ontario horse racing industry, has been relatively quiet about the Ontario government's plans to end the slots at the racetrack program through the provincial lottery corporation. But at Tuesday's Pepsi North America Cup draw, Woodbin
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Lenore Alpert, wife of Sid Alpert, dies
June 13, 2012
Lenore Alpert, 83, well known in harness racing during the last half of the 20th century, died June 10 in Silver Spring, Md.   Mrs. Alpert and her husband, Sidney, were known at a number of racetracks where her husband's company, Electronic Race Patrol, provided sound and video. Among
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Tioga's week reviewed on Inside Harness Racing
June 13, 2012
The 8-year-old pacing mare Dreamfair Eternal broke her own track record in capturing her second Artiscape Open Mare Pace over the weekend at Tioga Downs.   The historic win is chronicled on this week's episode of "Inside Harness Racing.” The program airs at a special time of 9 p.m.&nb
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2012 Hambo to be televised live on CBS Sports
June 13, 2012
The $1.5 million Hambletonian, the richest race for 3-year-old trotters in the world, will air live from The Meadowlands in East Rutherford, NJ, on CBS Sports Network on Saturday, Aug. 4, from 3:30-5:00 p.m. [EDT]. The Hambletonian has enjoyed a 37-year run on national television, and remai
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Kentucky votes to ban stakes race-day Lasix
June 13, 2012
Kentucky is poised to become the first jurisdiction in North America to ban the race-day use of the anti-bleeding medication Lasix in Thoroughbred stakes races after the state's Horse Racing Commission voted Wednesday in favor of the rule change. In April the commission failed to approve a rule
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McDonald moves to Pompano trainers' lead
June 13, 2012
Jim McDonald surged to the lead by sending out a pair of winners on the Wednesday evening program, but the summer meet contest for top trainer will be tight right down to the finish on July 28 at The Isle Casino Racing Pompano Park.   McDonald harnessed up claiming mare pacer SOS Rive
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Riccolo rolls to sixth straight at Balmoral
June 13, 2012
Illinois conceived and foaled pacers and trotters were in action on Wednesday at Balmoral Park as a pair of events shared top billing on the program.   Coming off five straight victories to start his 3-year-old season, Walter and Paige Paisley's Riccolo was sent off as the
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