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Big racing card, record handle at Running Aces
June 25, 2012
Running Aces presented an expanded 11-race program with several of its best weekly races on Sunday, billed as "Family Carnival Night”, and the result was some exciting racing before a large crowd and an all-time track record handle of $225,096.   At Last turned the tables on last week
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Stakes winner Martha Maxine dies at 8
June 25, 2012
Martha Maxine p,5, 1:49.2 ($731,079), who became a stakes winner in open mare events but later was determined to be an anatomical male, died on the track at Mohawk on Saturday night while competing in a $30,000 claiming race for trainer Richard Moreau. He was 8 years old.   Martha Max
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Win Missy B in Currier & Ives record 1:54.4
June 25, 2012
Win Missy B, whose eight wins last year as a 2 year old included the Goldsmith Maid and Peaceful Way, won her first race of 2012 in four attempts Monday afternoon at The Meadows, capturing one of three $40,000 divisions of the Currier & Ives 3-Year-Old Filly Trot in a stakes record-equaling
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Funeral services set for Herman Brickel
June 25, 2012
Herman Brickel, a veteran racing official who worked as race secretary at Northfield Park and Hoosier Park as well as other tracks, and as presiding judge at Scioto Downs, died Monday in Columbus, Ohio, of an apparent heart attack. He was 72. Brickel also operated the Buckeye Standardbred Yearli
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Bamond to donate percentage to SRF
June 25, 2012
Horsemen continue to come to the assistance of the Standardbred Retirement Foundation, which in less than 30 days must find a new location for horses in its care. Following in the footsteps of earlier initiatives to provide the organization with financial help, horse owner Jeffrey Bamond said he
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Special hopes for special colt
June 25, 2012
Joe Holloway and John Travis have owned horses together for a number of years and have been friends going back to their days as fraternity brothers at the University of Delaware.   They have enjoyed success on the racetrack, perhaps most notably with stakes-winning filly pacer M
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