News Archive

Progress Pace draws 7; 4 Matron elims needed
November 06, 2012
Tattersalls Pace winner Sweet Lou, North America Cup winner Thinking Out Loud, and Breeders Crown champion Heston Blue Chip will line up respectively in the three inside posts on Sunday at Dover Downs in a preview race for the Progress Pace that is scheduled for Nov. 18. Also on the card are fou
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Muscle Mass, MOMM to stay in ONT in 2013
November 06, 2012
Kentuckiana Farms has announced that Muscle Mass and Manofmanymissions will stand at stud in Ontario for the 2013 breeding season at Kentuckiana Farms of Ontario, located at Emerald Ridge Farm of Rockwood, Ont.   The first crop by Muscle Mass has had a tremendous impact
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Auciello: "We aren't going to lay down for them"
November 06, 2012
Trainer Carmen Auciello is hoping his Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) starters, Goban and Kamkar Kutie, are on par for victory this Saturday night at Woodbine.   The former avid golfer has three hole-in-ones to his name, but he would gladly trade them all for a trip or two to the winner's
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Ont. panel says Sires Stakes purses to stay same
November 06, 2012
The three member panel charged with the transition of horse racing in Ontario issued a statement on Tuesday (Nov. 6) revealing their expectations regarding the purse structure of the Ontario Sires Stakes program. The full statement, issued today in response to a request for clarificati
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Winless Hillbilly Hanover draws rail in Messenger
November 06, 2012
Hillbilly Hanover, who hasn't won a race all season, won the draw for Saturday night's 57th edition of Yonkers Raceway's Messenger Stakes for 3-year-old colts and geldings. The final jewel of the pacing Triple Crown, worth $415,820, goes as the eighth race on the 13-race wagering card (first pos
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Plano first since 1989 to take 2 Vernon titles
November 06, 2012
Rick Plano has proven once again that even in harness racing, age is only a number.The 60-year-old native of nearby Frankfort, NY, earned leading driver and trainer honors at the recently concluded Vernon Downs meet to become the first horseman since Del Richards in 1989 to sweep both categories
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Rosecroft to increase purses, make-up card
November 06, 2012
Rosecroft Raceway announced on Tuesday (Nov. 6) a roughly 10 percent increase to purses will begin on Saturday night, Nov. 10. All classes, except the winners-over, will have at least a 10 percent increase. "We are happy to be able to reward the horsemen that have made this meet a success s
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Chapter Seven to stand at Blue Chip in NY
November 06, 2012
Chapter Seven, world champion and winner of the Breeders Crown Open Trot, will stand at Blue Chip Farm of New York for the 2013 breeding season, co-owner Southwind Farm announced today (Nov. 6). The 4-year-old stallion, co-owned by Richard Gutnick, Southwind Farm and Jerry and Theresa Silva, and
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Cam's Card Shark colt sold for $275,000
November 06, 2012
A little more than a week after his pupils Wheeling N Dealin won the Breeders Crown and Prestidigitator finished fourth in Crown action, in the 2-Year-Old Colt Trot and 3-Year-Old Colt Trot, respectively, horseman Dustin Jones was in Harrisburg and bought the pacing colt Marc Hano
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