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Stubborn Belle sets Champlain 2FT record
August 29, 2014
Grand Circuit week got underway with the Champlain Stakes for 2-year-old trotting fillies Thursday night at Mohawk. Twenty-six freshman fillies were split into three divisions worth more than $83,000.   Stubborn Belle captured the first division in style with a 1:54.2 stakes record per
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Buen Camino fastest in NYSS 2CT splits
August 29, 2014
Two-year-old colt and gelding trotters were in town on Thursday night at Saratoga Casino and Raceway to take part in the New York Sires Stakes. Three divisions of the $53,500-plus stakes races for freshman trotters highlighted the card with Trond Smedshammer's Buen Camino (Cash Hall) leadin
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Bell tells some Bedroomconfessions
August 29, 2014
Myron Bell is duly impressed with JK She'salady and Band Of Angels, who are both undefeated heading into Saturday's $480,000 She's A Great Lady for 2-year-old female pacers at Mohawk Racetrack, but he is hoping Bedroomconfessions can prove to be a worthy dark horse in the field.   Bed
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Kentucky To Crown Sires Stakes champions Sunday
August 29, 2014
The best 2- and 3-year-old trotters and pacers in the Bluegrass State will be out in full force at The Red Mile onSunday, Aug. 31, as the historic Lexington racetrack hosts the $2 million Kentucky Sires Stakes (KYSS) Championship Night. Each of the eight divisions for 2- and 3-year-old trotters an
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Stakes-loaded Weekend Preview now available!
August 29, 2014
Stakes, stakes, stakes and more stakes. There is plenty of stakes action this Labor Day weekend and the new and free HarnessRacing Weekend Preview has all the details. Mohawk will be a busy place and Tony Alagna talks Artspeak in the Metro, Joe Holloway reveals why he believes it is destiny he w
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Hambo heat winner Winky's Gill dies at 34
August 29, 2014
Winky's Gill, winner of a heat of the 1983 Hambletonian, dam of 1993 Hambletonian Oaks winner Winky's Goal (1:54.4, $844,924) and 1987 Peter Haughton Memorial winner, Supergill (1:53.3, $664,194) died at the age of 34 on Aug. 8 at Perretti Farm, her home of 14 years. She was buried in the farm's
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Upsets in Yonkers Friday features
August 29, 2014
Yonkers Raceway's Friday night $44,000 co-featured Opens--a handicap for distaff pacers and a blind draw for all trotters who passed initiation--were won by rank outsider Campanile (Eric Carlson, $58.50) and Obrigado (Brent Holland, $11).   An early bystander from post position No. 4,
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Lifetime Pursuit, Designed To Be win Simcoes
August 29, 2014
Lifetime Pursuit continued her incredible hot streak Friday night at Mohawk by winning a division of the Simcoe Stakes for 3-year-old trotting fillies. Designed To Be captured the first division. Thirteen 3-year-old trotting fillies were split into two Simcoe Stakes divisions worth more tha
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