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Meadowlands hires new marketing director
December 07, 2012
The Meadowlands Racetrack is pleased to announce the hiring of Valerie Harlan as director of marketing for the New Meadowlands Racetrack and Winners Bayonne, effective Dec. 10, 2012.   Valerie has considerable experience in Casino Marketing programs, with a significant amount of that
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New Jersey bills move forward
December 07, 2012
New Jersey Assemblyman Ron Dancer has sponsored a bill that would allow persons who live in New Jersey the ability to place a wager on a race in the state even though they may be outside the state's borders. The bill received approval on Thursday from the Assembly Regulatory Oversight and Gaming
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Zenker to receive Gallo Scholarship award
December 07, 2012
Martin Scharf will present the seventh annual Gallo Blue Chip Scholarship to Julia Zenker during the Saturday evening, Jan. 12, race card at the Meadowlands. Julia is currently studying at Wagner College on Staten Island, where she is majoring in Philosophy and Spanish, in pursuit of a law
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Santanna Blue Chip to stand in Ohio for 2013
December 07, 2012
Sugar Valley Farm is excited, as all Ohio harness racing should be, with the announcement that Santanna Blue Chip p,2,1:51:3 will be standing in the Buckeye state for the 2013 season. At two, Santanna Blue Chip showed early speed winning in 1:51:3 and banking $927,095, the most of any
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Former racehorse equine ambassador at college
December 07, 2012
When a race horse turns 14, the last possible year they are eligible to race, the horse and owners are recognized in a special post parade. Flapjack Attack, a harness horse named Horse of the Year, Aged Trotter of the Year and Trotter of the Year in 2004, was among those honored Sunday at S
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Boots Dunn breaks leg in training accident
December 07, 2012
U.S. Trotting Association director Walter "Boots” Dunn was unseated by a yearling at his training center in Cochranton, Pa., Thursday morning, Dec. 6, and has badly broken a leg.   Dunn remains hospitalized following surgery on his broken leg Thursday night and will need add
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Yonkers feature winner is a keeper
December 07, 2012
Yonkers Raceway's pair of moist Friday night, $35,000 co-featured Open Handicaps--for distaff pacers and trotters of all assorted alliances--were won by a sharp Keeper's Destiny (George Brennan, $6.30) and a equally-crisp Mystical Starlight (Mark MacDonald, $5.10).   Finding a seat fi
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Scootie Best Lou is best at Lebanon
December 07, 2012
The 3-year-old filly Scootie Best Lou demonstrated dauntless courage in winning the Friday night featured pace at Lebanon despite racing on the outside for more than five-eighths of the mile.   Driver Kayne Kauffman kept his tiring horse alive in the stretch as Tailor's Filly and Conn
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Longshots rule in Batavia features
December 07, 2012
The longshots were the hot shots in the co-features at Batavia Downs Friday night. Columbia County ($17.80) scored the victory in the $7,400 conditioned trot while Pathtodover ($21.80) came from nowhere and nabbed the $7,400 Fillies and Mare pace.   In the first co-feature, Columbia C
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4,000 wins for Jack Flanigen
December 07, 2012
Reinsman Jack Flanigen became a member of the 4,000 win club when he guided Frank Zambito's, All Got In, to victory in the ninth race on Friday night at Batavia Downs Casino.   The 46-year-old Flanigen started the Friday program with 3,998 wins and moved closer to the milestone w
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Niagara for soph filly pacers gets underway
December 07, 2012
Oceanview Bindi, driven by Keith Oliver, delivered on her 1-5 pari-mutuel promise in a $20,000 opening round division of the Niagara Series on Friday night at Woodbine.   The 3-year-old pacing filly took all the spoils in the first dash with a 1:53.4 career-best performance for traine
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