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September 18, 2014 9:46 AM
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Lifetime Pursuit made it six wins in a row by dominating Wednesday’s (Sept. 17) $89,475 Buckette for 3-year-old female trotters at the Delaware County Fair, crossing the wire in front by 12-3/4 lengths in 1:53.4.
Driven by Yannick Gingras, the filly started from post six and raced three wide around the first turn to get the lead from Broadway Socks. Once there, she never looked back through fractions of :28.2, :56.4 and 1:25.1. The winning time was three-fifths of a second off Frau Blucher’s half-mile-track world record for a 3-year-old female trotter, set last year in the Buckette.
Sent off at odds of 1-9, Lifetime Pursuit paid $2.10 to win.
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September 18, 2014 9:45 AM
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Combined they have won more than 10,500 races. Each has won the Peter Haughton Memorial Award as the top young Ohio driver. They all rank in the top 20 for dash winning drivers. And, this year all three of the Ohio "young guns,' Aaron Merriman, Chris Page and Tyler Smith are making their first Little Brown Jug start Thursday at Delaware, Ohio. Merriman, 36, is currently in second place as North America's leading dash driver (trailing Ronnie Wrenn Jr. by four wins). The native of Northfield, Ohio will pilot Avalanche Hanover from post 3 in the second LBJ elimination. This year has already been memorable for Merriman. In August he competed in his first Hambletonian, guiding Il Sogno Dream to a fourth-place finish in the $1.1 million final. Merriman and Il Sogno Dream will reunite in the $118,000 Old Oaken Bucket on the Jug undercard. A few weeks ago Merriman was enshrined into the Northfield Park Wall of Fame.
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September 18, 2014 9:42 AM
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Here are the starters for the C$200,000 Prix D'Ete, set for Sunday (Sept. 21) at Hippodrome 3R.
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September 17, 2014 12:53 PM
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Combined they have won more than 10,500 races. Each has won the Peter Haughton Memorial Award as the top young Ohio driver. They all rank in the top 20 for dash winning drivers in 2014. And this year all three of the Ohio “Young Guns,’ Aaron Merriman, Chris Page and Tyler Smith, are making their first Little Brown Jug start.
Merriman, 36, is currently in second place as North America’s leading dash driver (trailing Ronnie Wrenn Jr. by four wins). The native of Northfield, Ohio, will pilot Avalanche Hanover from post three in the second LBJ elimination.
The 2014 season has already been memorable for Merriman. In August he competed in his first Hambletonian, guiding Il Sogno Dream to a fourth place finish in the $1.1 million race. Merriman and Il Sogno Dream will reunite in the $118,000 Old Oaken Bucket on the Jug undercard. A few weeks ago Merriman was enshrined into the Northfield Park Wall of Fame.
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September 17, 2014 10:19 AM
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Four world champions meet in Thursday’s $121,500 Miss Versatility Series championship for older female trotters at the Delaware County Fair in central Ohio.
The group is led by Bee A Magician, who was the 2013 Horse of the Year in both the U.S. and Canada, and Classic Martine, who has won this year’s Armbro Flight Stakes and two preliminary divisions of the Miss Versatility Series. The two horses share the world record of 1:51.1 for the fastest winning time by a 4-year-old trotting mare on a mile racetrack.
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September 17, 2014 10:16 AM
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Tuesday's (Sept. 16) edition of Racing Roundup features results stories from The Meadows and Harrington Raceway.
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September 17, 2014 10:15 AM
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Classicality quarter-poled to the lead, then gamely fought off Better Caviar in a stretch-long duel to notch his third straight victory in Tuesday’s $20,000 Preferred Handicap Trot at The Meadows.
Although Classicality had taken his last two starts from well back, Brian Zendt changed tactics Tuesday and sent the 4-year-old Classic Photo-Penn Worthy Lane gelding after the leader, Waiting On A Woman, early. That set up the exciting finish, with Classicality downing Better Caviar by a head in 1:53, matching the lifetime mark he established last week. Waiting On A Woman saved show.
Lisa Dunn-Adams trains the homebred Classicality, who has won 20 times in 2013-2014, for Dunn Stable.
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September 16, 2014 4:31 PM
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Post No. 7 proved lucky for Lyonssomewhere in the Cane Pace and his connections will hope for the same good fortune Thursday when the colt starts from the same spot in his first-round elimination heat in the Little Brown Jug at the Delaware County Fair.
The outside post positions at Delaware’s half-mile oval are historically regarded as difficult starting spots, but driver Yannick Gingras and trainer Jimmy Takter are hopeful that Lyonssomewhere can overcome the draw. The colt, who supplemented into the race thanks to his victory in the Cane Pace, is the 5-2 favorite in his heat.
A total of 16 3-year-old male pacers entered the $647,500 Little Brown Jug presented by Fazoli’s, but the number was reduced to 15 on Tuesday when Cammikey scratched because of illness.
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September 16, 2014 4:30 PM
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Art Sherman, trainer of California Chrome, was a bit surprised to hear thatTapiture's owner, Ron Winchell, had said earlier on a national teleconference Sept. 16 he would not have chosen the $1 million Pennsylvania Derby (gr. II) at Parx Racing Sept. 20 as the return race for the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) and Preakness Stakes (gr. I) winner.
"I don't know that I'm looking forward to a rematch with California Chrome," he said when discussing his homebred Tapiture, the 15th-place finisher of the Kentucky Derby, "but I do think he's definitely vulnerable, and this is not where I would run him first time back. He has to go a mile and an eighth against horses who are in top form, and shipping cross country is not the ideal position to be in if you want to win the Breeders' Cup Classic (gr. I). We have to win this race to earn our way in. We have to do it the old-fashioned way, and we're kind of sitting in prime position, coming off two wins."
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September 16, 2014 3:40 PM
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Sea The Moon, a stunning open lengths victor in the July 6 German Derby (Ger-I), has been retired from racing because of an injury. The colt's connections hoped he could return from an injury he sustained in the German Derby and continue to race next season at age 4, but he recently sustained a similar injury that forced the end of his career. "He is injured and we have taken the decision to retire him and will start looking for a suitable home for him as a stallion," Niko Lafrentz of owner/breeder Gestut Gorlsdorf toldRacing Post.
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September 16, 2014 3:39 PM
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It’s happened several times recently. Casie Coleman leaves for the Delaware County Fair in central Ohio and ends up elsewhere. She doesn’t mind, though. In fact, she hopes it happens again.
After all, there’s nothing like ending up on Cloud Nine.
Coleman has won the last two editions of the Little Brown Jug, the second jewel in harness racing’s Pacing Triple Crown, and on Thursday will try to become the first trainer in history to win three in a row when she sends McWicked into the $647,500 Little Brown Jug presented by Fazoli’s at the Delaware County Fair.
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September 16, 2014 12:03 PM
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Three-time stakes winnerFiftyshadesofgold will look to keep herChurchill Downs record intact when she tops the field of 10 fillies entered in the $100,000 Dogwood Stakes (gr. III).
The Dogwood, for 3-year-old fillies going seven furlongs, is the ninth race on the card, with an approximate post time of 4:55 p.m. (EDT).
Trained by Bret Calhoun for Douglas Scharbauer, the Texas-bred daughter ofMy Golden Song has won both her starts under the Twin Spires, including a half-length triumph over Dogwood entrant Milam in the Eight Belles Stakes (gr. III) on the May 2 Kentucky Oaks (gr. I) card. She also took the Debutante at Churchill last year.
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September 16, 2014 12:03 PM
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This Week: Delaware Grand Circuit, Delaware County Fair, Delaware, Ohio; American-National, Balmoral Park, Crete. Ill; Kindergarten Series, The Red Mile, Lexington, Ky.; Milton Stake final, Mohawk Racetrack, Campbellville, Ontario; Centaur Trot, Kentuckiana Stallion Management and The Elevation, Hoosier Park, Anderson, Ind.; and Prix D’Ete, Hippodrome 3R, Trois-Rivieres, Quebec.
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September 18, 2014 9:45 AM
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Wild Honey trotted the fastest mile in history by a 2-year-old trotter on a half-mile racetrack Wednesday (Sept. 17) at the Delaware County Fair, winning the second $32,323 division of the Standardbred Stakes for 2-year-old female trotters in 1:55.2.
The recently crowned Pennsylvania Sire Stakes champion left no doubt about the race’s outcome, leading from start to finish at odds of 1-9. The fractions were :28.4, :57.3 and 1:25.4 with driver Yannick Gingras at the lines for trainer Jimmy Takter. Hot Start finished second by 7-3/4 lengths and Gee O’Keeffe was third.
Wild Honey’s performance erased one of trotting’s oldest records from the books. She eclipsed the previous best time of 1:56.3 by a 2-year-old female trotter on a half-mile track set by CR Kay Suzie on Sept. 21, 1994 at Freehold Raceway. The only trotting record to stand longer is Pine Chip’s 1:54 time for a 4-year-old male trotter on a half-mile oval, set on Sept. 18, 1994 at Delaware.
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September 18, 2014 9:45 AM
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Four world champions meet in Thursday's $121,500 Miss Versatility Series championship for older female trotters at the Delaware County Fair in central Ohio.
The group is led by Bee A Magician, who was the 2013 Horse of the Year in both the U.S. and Canada, and Classic Martine, who has won this year's Armbro Flight Stakes and two preliminary divisions of the Miss Versatility Series. The two horses share the world record of 1:51.1 for the fastest winning time by a 4-year-old trotting mare on a mile racetrack.
Classic Martine also shares the world record of 1:51.2 for the fastest victory by a female trotter of any age on a five-eighths-mile racetrack. She shares the mark with her stablemate, and Miss Versatility contender, Frau Blucher.
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September 18, 2014 9:42 AM
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Here are the starters for the C$200,000 Prix D'Ete, set for Sunday (Sept. 21) at Hippodrome 3R.
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September 17, 2014 10:19 AM
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The father-son team of trainer Carl Jamieson and driver Jody Jamieson won two of the three $63,700 Ontario Sires Stakes Gold Series contests for rookie colt and gelding pacers on Tuesday night (Sept. 16) at Mohawk Racetrack.
The Jamiesons’ first victory came in the second division with Sporting The Look, who now leads the point standings for the group. Sporting The Look shot to the front in the early going and was ahead of a parked-out Sportskeeper (Randy Waples) by a nose at the :27.2 opening quarter. Sportskeeper would clear to the top past that post, and he would go on to reach the half in :57.
Sportskeeper was under attack from a first-over Lancaster Park (Doug McNair) at the half, and those two would continue to slug it out over to the 1:24 three-quarters.
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September 17, 2014 10:17 AM
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With only a few weekends of racing left, the Iowa Harness Horsemen’s Association wrapped up yet another round of racing this past Saturday and Sunday in Humboldt, Iowa.
Saturday saw the Iowa Registered 2-year-olds and older Iowa pacers racing. Two horses captured new lifetime marks and one achieved her first career win.
Sexycaliber, a 2-year-old trotting filly, attained herself a new lifetime mark in 2:07.3. The filly was driven to the win by Aaron Mitchell who also owns part of the filly along with Lesa Peters.
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September 17, 2014 10:15 AM
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Honey B and Kyle Ater scored a convincing victory in the $74,625 Ohio Breeders Championship for freshman filly trotters in Tuesday action at the Delaware County Fair.
As the field of six was sent on their way, Honey B yielded to the fast leaving I’d Rather Walk (Kayne Kauffman). Ater retook the lead past the quarter in :29.3. Honey B was unchallenged at the half in 1:00.2 and three-quarters in 1:30.2. Josh Sutton sent Like Old Times to attack the leader by a late break in stride sealed his fate as Honey B cruised to a nine and three-quarter length victory in 2:00.2.
The Victory Sam lass is conditioned by Dan Ater for Jim Burnett of Wilmington, Ohio, and Tim Homan of Maineville, Ohio.
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September 17, 2014 10:15 AM
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Dual classic winner California Chromearrived on the backstretch at Parx RacingSept. 16 ahead of his bid in the $1 million Pennsylvania Derby (gr. II) Sept. 20. Assistant trainer Alan Sherman was at track to meet the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) and Preakness Stakes (gr. I) winner, who settled him into Barn 10. California Chrome is tabbed as the even money favorite on the morning line for Pennsylvania Derby. He was joined on the Tex Sutton flight from California by Pennsylvania Derby entrants, Bayern, the 7-2 second choice and winner of the William Hill Haskell (gr. I) for trainer Bob Baffert and the John Sadler-trained Candy Boy (12-1) as well as Jojo Warrior, also trained by Baffert, who has arrived for the $1 million Cotillion (gr. I) for 3-year-old fillies, also on Saturday.
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September 16, 2014 4:31 PM
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Three of the six entrants in the $25,000 New Jersey Sire Stake–Green Acres final for 2-year-old trotting colts will carry the banner of trainer Ray Schnittker on Thursday (Sept. 18) at Freehold Raceway.
Schnittker will handle Broken Record, who leaves from post six while Jack Baggitt Jr. gets the call on Cruizinwithmuscles and Steve Smith will pilot Switchblade Hall in the non-wagering event scheduled for 12:10 p.m.
All three of the Schnittker trainees are sons of Muscles Yankee, who sired five of the six finalists. Mountain Top, who won the first leg of the Green Acres, is byMuscle Hill, a son of Muscles Yankee. He is trained and driven by Francisco Del Cid.
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September 16, 2014 3:40 PM
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The locally owned and homebred Sectionline Aqua is looking for Jugette glory as she takes on a field of eight in the second of three eliminations for the $298,100 Jugette for 3-year-old filly pacers at the Delaware County Fair. The Major In Art-Aquatic Yankee filly is owned by Harold Lee and Harold L. Bauder of Delaware, Ohio, and Michael Dixon of Hilliard, Ohio. Steve Bauder, who recently moved back to his hometown of Delaware after residing in Chicago for a few years, trains the filly. Native Central Ohioan Brett Miller will drive her in the Jugette. Sectionline Aqua has finished on the board in each of her last five starts and has won 6 of 16 seasonal starts. In her last start, she raced in an Ontario Sire Stakes Gold event at Mohawk Raceway finishing second by a length and a quarter and was timed in 1:51.
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September 16, 2014 3:39 PM
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The fourth leg of the Kindergarten Classic series, a Grand Circuit event for freshman trotters, will be raced on Thursday night (Sept. 18) at The Red Mile and again the entry box was filled to the brim.
A total of 38 fillies necessitated four divisions and three of the four winners from last week return.
Bee The Queen was the fastest, scoring in 1:56 for trainer George Ducharme and owner Alfred Ross. She was a handy winner last week at a hefty $62 win price that likely will not be available on Thursday. She starts from the rail in race 13 with Corey Callahan listed to drive.
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September 16, 2014 12:03 PM
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Father Patrick won the Canadian Trotting Classic last weekend and became the first harness racing horse this season to surpass $1 million. The 3-year-old male trotter also moved up one spot in this week’s Hambletonian Society/Breeders Crown poll, from fourth to third.
Older male trotter Sebastian K remained the unanimous choice at No. 1, followed by older male pacer Sweet Lou.
Four of the horses in the Top 10 race at the Delaware County Fair this week.
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September 16, 2014 12:03 PM
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Cammikey, who drew post 8 in the second elimination for the Little Brown Jug, has been scratched sick. Trained by Bill Zendt, the son of Somebeachsomewhere is a homebred of Cam Land LLC, the nom de course of Nan and Wendy Cameron, who won the Jugette in 2002 with Always Cam.
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