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2YO Major Athens impresses with 1:56.1 score
July 12, 2012
Major Athens brushed to the lead with a quarter-pole move and went on to victory in a stake-fastest 1:56.1 in a division of Wednesday's $315,724 Hickory Pride, a Pennsylvania Sires Stake for freshman cold and gelding trotters, at The Meadows.   Impressive as Major Athens was, he had t
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Brookroad Knight's 1:53.4 fastest in NYSS
July 12, 2012
Delano and Brookroad Knight continued their winning ways during Wednesday night's $132,236 New York Sires Stakes feature for 3-year-old male trotters at Vernon Downs.   The crowd's choice Delano ($3.30) delivered his third straight NYSS score with a 1:55 performance in Wednesday's sev
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RMTC announces new executive director
July 12, 2012
The Racing Medication and Testing Consortium (RMTC) has announced the hiring of Dr. Dionne Benson as RMTC Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer. In her new position, which she assumed on July 9, Dr. Benson will provide administrative oversight of RMTC-funded research projects, the
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Prayer Session favored in Connors Memorial
July 12, 2012
Prayer Session, who set a Hazel Park Raceway all-age track record with his 1:53.4 victory in his July 6 elimination for Friday night's $100,000 William Connors Memorial 3-Year-Old Colt Trot, has been installed the 2-1 morning-line favorite. Trainer Bobby Brower has named Hall of Famer Dave Magee
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SBOANJ awards 2 college scholarships
July 12, 2012
Veronica Fanning and Caitlin McDermott, daughters of two trainers, have been selected to receive the 2012 Standardbred Breeders & Owners Association of New Jersey college scholarships. The recipients will be honored in ceremonies in the Meadowlands winner's circle later this month
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Scioto increases purses again; open at $15,000
July 12, 2012
Purses at Scioto Downs are just like the temperatures this summer, they keep going up, up, up. Scioto implements its third purse increase in the past month when it begins its Thursday through Saturday racing schedule this week.   "Most purses are up 50 percent or higher,” says Stacy
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CBC 3-year-old elims on tap at Mohawk
July 12, 2012
Forty of the best Canadian-sired sophomores will take to the track to compete in their respective Canadian Breeders Championship eliminations this weekend at Mohawk.   Trainer-driver MikeVanderkemp will send two sons of Kadabra postward on Friday in the lone $68,168 elimination for t
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Hoosier to close meet with big Saturday card
July 12, 2012
Celebrity guests along with champion drivers and horses will close out Hoosier Park Racing & Casino's 2012 Standardbred meet Saturday, July 14, on the annual Hoosier Champions Night. This conclusion of the racing meet will feature two celebrity-filled charity exhibition races, 14 regularl
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Sir Richard Z Tam in 1:51.4 in PASS 2CP
July 12, 2012
Sir Richard Z Tam kicked off Pennsylvania Sire Stakes (PASS) action for 2-year-old colt and gelding pacers Thursday afternoon at Harrah's Philadelphia with a national season's best 1:51.4 victory in the first of five $70,795 divisions. Sent off the 1-5 favorite off a 1:52.2 win in his career
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Gural testifies at Senate hearing on drugs
July 12, 2012
The U.S. Senate Committee of Commerce, Science and Transportation held a hearing Thursday afternoon chaired by New Mexico Senator Tom Udall. Among the eight who testified was Jeff Gural, owner of Tioga Downs and Vernon Downs and operator of the Meadowlands Racetrack. After speaking for a few
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NEW Weekend Preview now available!
July 12, 2012
The latest edition of HarnessRacing Weekend Preview is now available by clicking below or signing up by following the link at the top of this home page. The Meadowlands Pace is this Saturday night and the drivers and/or trainers of all of the contenders offer their thoughts about their chan
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NJSS freshman trotters in action at Big M
July 12, 2012
Two-year-old trotters of both sexes were in action Thursday night at the Meadowlands as the track hosted the first round of New Jersey Sire Stakes (NJSS). Thirteen male trotters were divided into a pair of $18,000 divisions, while 20 fillies were split into two $20,000 divisions.   Th
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Trace Tetrick wins 2,000th race at Hoosier
July 12, 2012
Trace Tetrick scored his 2,000th career win on Thursday at Hoosier Park Racing & Casino. Tetrick brought home Ohmygosh Hanover, a 4-year-old gelding trained by Tom T Tetrick and co-owned by Tetrick's mother Mary Alice with CC Racing, in the eighth race on the 13-race card to r
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LF Topaz sparkles at Scioto
July 12, 2012
LF Topaz came from off the pace to win the featured trot at Scioto Downs on Thursday, scoring in 1:58.1 by three-quarters of a length. The 8-year-old gelded son of Valley Victor was driven by Kyle Ater and is trained by his father Dan Ater for ower Ned Hodkinson of Ohio.   LF Topaz wa
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