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May 29, 2014 2:37 PM
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After coming up short in the first jewel of the Triple Crown, Uncle Sigh will try his luck against nine other New York-bred 3-year-olds when he starts in the first leg of the Big Apple Triple, the Mike Lee Stakes May 31 at Belmont Park.
In his previous start, Wounded Warrior Stables and Anthony Robertson's Uncle Sigh led the 19-horse Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) field through a half-mile in :47.37 before fading to 14th in the 1 1/4-mile classic atChurchill Downs. On Saturday, the New York-bred son of Indian Charlie will start in a restricted stakes for the first time—after four straight graded races—and cut back in distance to seven furlongs.
Trained by GaryContessa, Uncle Sigh built a nice rivalry with Samraatthis year, finishing a close second to his fellow state-bred in both the Withers and Gotham stakes (both gr. III) at Aqueduct Racetrack. Uncle Sigh then finished off the board in the TwinSpires.com Wood Memorial Stakes (gr. I) and the Derby.
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May 29, 2014 2:35 PM
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Everything appears to be right on with All Bets Off as he heads into Saturday’s $300,000 Art Rooney Pace at Yonkers Raceway.
All Bets Off, trained by Ron Burke and driven by Matt Kakaley, won his Rooney elimination last weekend by 2-1/2 lengths over Some Playa in 1:52.3. In his eight starts since joining the Burke Stable last September, All Bets Off has won five times and finished second on three occasions.
He finished last season by winning the Matron Stakes at Dover Downs, beating Stevensville by a half-length in a track-record 1:50. Stevensville also is in the Rooney, having won his elimination by 3-3/4 lengths over Gold Rocks in 1:53.
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May 29, 2014 2:24 PM
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Friday night's program at Vernon Downs includes three divisions of the New York Sire Stakes for 3-year-old pacing fillies, as well as eliminations for the Empire Breeders' Classic for 3-year-old colts and 3-year-old fillies. The stars will also be in the bikes on Friday night with the likes of Tim Tetrick, David Miller, Jim Morrill Jr., Matt Kakaley, and many others coming into Vernon to drive on the 12-race program. Precocious Beauty makes her official return to the races for 2014 on Friday night after participating in qualifiers at Pompano Park in April and Mohawk Racetrack in May. The imposing filly is owned by James Avritt Sr., trained by Gregg McNair and will be driven by Douglas McNair on Friday night. Precocious Beauty is hoping to recapture her 2013 form, which saw her win divisional honors for 2-year-old female pacers. She was a winner in seven of 11 starts last year, including a victory in the She's A Great Lady, earning purses of $446,692. Precocious Beauty has been installed at 5-2 on the morning line in Friday's seventh race division of Sires Stakes, but she appears to have plenty of competition coming her way from Blush Hanover, to be driven by Tetrick. Blush Hanover has three wins in four career starts, two at Harrah's Philadelphia and has also scored a win and a second in two tries at the Meadowlands.
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May 29, 2014 2:24 PM
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The 2014 stakes season is set to get underway at Hoosier Park Racing & Casino on Wednesday (May 28) as four $20,000 divisions of Indiana Sires Stakes races showcase the top 3-year-old trotting fillies in the state.
Revamped for the 2014 live racing season, Hoosier Park will debut a new and improved Indiana Sires Stakes format approved by the Indiana Horse Racing Commission last year. The 2014 Indiana Sires Stakes program will feature five legs throughout the season, and from each leg, the top 20 horses will return to compete in a final and consolation. The stakes program will culminate with the top ten horses from each of the previous finals returning to compete in a $200,000 Super Final on Oct. 18 at Hoosier Park.
“The new Indiana Sires Stakes format is a very positive change for our program,” Hoosier Park’s Director of Racing and Racing Secretary Scott Peine noted. “It provides flexibility in the scheduling and having multiple eliminations for the $75,000 finals will produce very competitive races.”
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May 28, 2014 11:07 AM
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This Week: Molson Pace, The Raceway at Western Fair District, London, Ontraio; Art Rooney and Lismore, Yonkers Raceway, Yonkers, N.Y.; Somebeachsomewhere, Mohawk Racetrack, Campbellville, Ontario; and Roll With Joe, Tioga Downs, Nichols, N.Y.
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May 28, 2014 10:57 AM
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Tuesday's (May 27) edition of Racing Roundup features results stories from The Meadows, Harrington Raceway, Northfield Park and Hippodrome 3R.
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May 28, 2014 10:37 AM
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Standout statebred All Bets Off drew right smack in the middle, landing post position No. 4 for Saturday night’s (May 31) $300,000 final of Yonkers Raceway’s Art Rooney Pace.
This is the 24th edition of the Rooney. The premier event for 3-year-olds was inaugurated in 1989, a year after the passing of Art Rooney Sr.
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May 27, 2014 2:12 PM
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Two white Thoroughbreds will square off in an allowance race at Belterra Park. the former River Downs, in Ohio May 30.
Paul Brown Jr.'s Chief White Fox and Paul Megson's Wear the Mask are entered in the seventh race, a six-furlong test for 3-year-olds and up that haven't won two races. A field of eight was drawn, and post time is set for 5:54 p.m. EDT.
Lori Wydick is named to ride Chief White Fox, while Rodrigo Vergara is named aboard Wear the Mask.
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May 27, 2014 2:11 PM
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Market Share, who trotted the fastest mile ever on a five-eighths-mile track Sunday to win the Maxie Lee Memorial Invitational at Harrah’s Philadelphia, made a big gain in this week’s Hambletonian Society/Breeders Crown poll. The 5-year-old male trotter moved into the Top 10, coming in at No. 5.
Also moving into the Top 10 is Sweet Lou, who won the second leg of the TVG Free For All Series for older pacers in 1:48 from post 10 at the Meadowlands on Saturday.
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May 27, 2014 2:10 PM
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This time of year is always exciting, not only because warmer weather is upon us, but we have the opportunity to get our first glance at the stars of tomorrow with “Breakfast with the Babies” at The Meadowlands.
The first 2-year-old race session will take place Saturday (May 31) with post time at 9:30 a.m. and will be combined with older qualifying races as well.
Thanks to our new facility, we have a new location to offer breakfast each Saturday morning. That location is the elegant Trotters, located on the second floor on the west side of the building. Trotters members can enjoy complimentary breakfast each Saturday morning while watching the 2-year-olds take to the track, but also any New Jersey licensed owner that is not a member of Trotters can enjoy breakfast for just $7.95 per person.
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May 27, 2014 11:47 AM
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The post position draw for this year's Molson Pace was conducted Monday at The Raceway in London, Ont., and it was defending champion State Treasurer who came away with the coveted rail position in this Friday night's $150,000 event. State Treasurer has been off to a great start this season, winning his last three, including a 1:48.3 national season's record in his latest outing at Mohawk. Two-time winner Foiled Again drew the outside post seven in the eight-horse field and will be making his sixth appearance in London's signature race. Dancin Yankee, who set a 1:47.2 world record in his most recent start at Pocono, drew post five in the star-studded field which also includes Bettor's Edge (post two), Bandolito (post three), Apprentice Hanover (post four), P H Supercam (post six) and Captive Audience (post eight).
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May 20, 2014 10:28 AM
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Dancin Yankee won the $25,000 Preferred pace on Saturday night at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs, but the real story was his time, which was the fastest ever at Pocono and matched the world record for fastest pace on a 5/8-mile oval. Fresh off a win in the Van Rose Memorial pace at Pocono in his previous start, Dancin Yankee (Yankee Cruiser-Dancewiththebest), the 4-5 favorite from an outside post in a field of six, took over the lead with a blinding burst of speed on the front stretch. With Brett Miller in the bike, the 6-year-old stallion from theJosh Green barn had to endure a first-over challenge on the back stretch from Mach It So and a home stretch battle from pocket horse Clear Vision, eventually prevailing over the latter by a neck with Feel Like A Fool finishing third.
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May 20, 2014 10:26 AM
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WinStar Farm's favored Revolutionary, more than 30 lengths behind early following a heated pace, kicked into gear and circled his eight foes to win the $300,000 Pimlico Special (gr. III) by a neck at Pimlico Race Course May 16.
It was the second big effort in a row by the Todd Pletcher-trained Revolutionary, who in his previous start April 12 rallied despite trouble to finish three-quarters of a length behind the victorious Will Take Charge in the Oaklawn Handicap (gr. II).
Friday was a big day at Pimlico for Pletcher, who won the $500,000 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes (gr. II) two races earlier withStopchargingmaria.
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May 29, 2014 2:37 PM
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Something Extra will face a tough field of competitors, including two past Breeders' Cup World Championships contenders, when he attempts to capture the Connaught Cup (Can-II)for a third consecutive time atWoodbine May 31.
The seven-furlong turf event for 4-year-olds and up attracted nine entrants. The eighth race on the card, it is slated for 4:39 p.m. EDT.
Something Extra is trained by Gail Cox, who owns the 6-year-old dark bay or brown gelding in partnership with John Menary. The son of Indian Charlie, who won the past two editions of the Connaught Cup in gate-to-wire fashion, will make his second start of 2014.
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May 29, 2014 2:25 PM
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While there are no new faces to this week’s Road to the Meadowlands Pace, the top 10 took on a different look with a new horse standing atop the division.
Following the loss suffered by He’s Watching, the Ron Burke trained JK Endofanera has moved into the top spot leading into theSomebeachsomewhere, where he will get a stiff challenge from the No. 3 ranked pacing colt, Luck Be Withyou.
He’s Watching, who had been No. 1 for the first seven weeks of the Road to the Pace fell six spots to No. 7 after finishing last in a field of six in his Art Rooney elimination.
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May 29, 2014 2:24 PM
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The one-two finishers in the American Turf Stakes (gr. IIT) at Churchill Downsare set for a rematch in the $500,000 Penn Mile Stakes for 3-year-olds on the grass at Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course the evening of May 31.
The Penn Mile, first run last year, is one of five stakes on a 10-race program that begins at 6:05 p.m. EDT. The others are the $200,000 Mountainview Handicap for 3-year-olds and up at 1 1/8 miles; the $150,000 Pennsylvania Governor's Cup Stakes at five furlongs on the turf; the $100,000 Penn Oaks for 3-year-old fillies at one mile on the turf; and the $50,000 Penn Dash for 3-year-olds and up at five furlongs.
The Penn Mile, slotted as the fourth race, completes an all-stakes pick four wager. Post time for the Penn Mile is planned for 7:31 p.m. EDT.
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May 28, 2014 11:08 AM
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Henry Ray Dunn's Ide Be Cool, a perfect four-for-four at 2 last year, was named the accredited Louisiana-bred horse of the year May 24 at the Louisiana Thoroughbred Breeders Association's annual meeting at the Equine Sales Co. in Opelousas.
Ide Be Cool, bred by Gulf Haven Farms, was also named champion male based on his dominance of the division that saw him win at all three Louisiana tracks:Harrah's Louisiana Downs, Delta Downs, and Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots. Trained by Dunn, the son ofIde —Cool Climate, by Bowman's Band won a pair of stakes—the Louisiana Legacy Stakes and Louisiana Champions Day Juvenile Stakes—after breaking his maiden and taking an entry-level allowance race. He remains perfect in six starts through 2014 with a pair of stakes wins at Delta Downs earlier this year.
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May 28, 2014 11:06 AM
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Can you imagine taking slapshots in your backyard with Sidney Crosby or catching perfect spirals in the schoolyard from Tom Brady? How cool would it be to practice free throws with Lebron James or hit a bucket of balls at the driving range with Tiger Woods?
It would be a whole bunch of awesome -- almost as awesome as the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity one fan will be treated to thanks to the Burke Racing Stable, Hands On Horses Program and The Raceway at Western Fair District.
One lucky patron will have the chance to ride along in a double-seated jog cart with Foiled Again -- the richest pacer of all-time -- during his warm-up prior to facing the starting gate in Friday’s C$150,000 Molson Pace Invitational at the London, Ontario, half-miler.
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May 28, 2014 10:56 AM
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Something astonishing happened on the Tuesday (May 27) at Monticello Raceway when a pair of dead-heats developed between the first four horses under the wire in the seventh race.
There was a dead-heat for win and a dead-heat for show and many believe that the double dead-heats are a harness racing first. But there’s one thing for sure, it is something that never happened in the 55 years of racing here at the Mighty M.
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May 28, 2014 10:35 AM
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Woodbine Entertainment Group on Tuesday announced David Bolland, currently a center for the Toronto Maple Leafs, will be the guest drawmaster for the 2014 edition of the $1 million Pepsi North America Cup. On Tuesday, June 10, at Mohawk Racetrack, Bolland, 28, will be on hand to assist with the noon media event to draw post positions. The Pepsi NA Cup will take place Saturday, June 14, at the Campbellville track.
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May 27, 2014 2:12 PM
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He defies what you would expect from a world-class professional athlete at the top of his game in just about every category except heart. He lacks size, is an old man in a younger man’s game and isn’t blessed with blinding speed or a chiselled physique.
Yet, Foiled Again stands atop the globe as the richest horse in harness racing history and is an epic overachiever by any sport’s standards.
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May 27, 2014 2:10 PM
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He defies what you would expect from a world-class professional athlete at the top of his game in just about every category except heart. He lacks size, is an old man in a younger man's game and isn't blessed with blinding speed or a chiseled physique. Yet, Foiled Again stands atop the globe as the richest horse in harness racing history and is an epic overachiever by any sport's standards. Friday night at The Raceway at The Western Fair District in London, fans will get a chance to sit mere yards away from this superstar as Foiled Again competes in his sixth consecutive Molson Pace. One lucky fan will be sitting even closer. The Raceway will draw one name to sit behind the great horse in a special two-seat jog cart when Foiled Again completes an early warm-up trip of the downtown oval.
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May 27, 2014 12:10 PM
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This time of year is always exciting, not only because warmer weather is upon us, but we have the opportunity to get our first glance at the stars of tomorrow with "Breakfast with the Babies” at the Meadowlands. The first baby-race session will take place Saturday, May 31, with post time at 9:30 a.m., and will be combined with older qualifying races as well. Thanks to our new facility, we have a new location to offer breakfast each Saturday morning. That location is the elegant Trotters, located on the second floor on the west side of the building.
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May 20, 2014 10:28 AM
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Swedish champion Sebastian K added to his lore with another convincing win, this one the $175,000 Arthur J. Cutler Memorial Final at The Meadowlands Saturday night in 1:50.2. The Cutler was the first major test of the season for the free-for-all trotters, promising a battle royale between last week's elimination winners Sebastian K and Market Share and record speed possibilities that went awry when Market Share made an uncharacteristic break in the first turn. As the race began Modern Family was put into play early by David Miller, using his keen gate speed to clear to the front before the turn with Sebastian K protecting the rail for Ake Svanstedt and securing the pocket through the :27.1 opener. With Market Share out of contention, there was little movement as the field passed the half in :55.2. Approaching the final bend Sebastian K was flushed out, trotting alongside Modern Family, and they raced as a team past the 1:22.4 three quarters.
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May 20, 2014 10:27 AM
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Swedish champion Sebastian K added to his lore with another convincing win, this one the $175,000 Arthur J. Cutler Memorial final at The Meadowlands on Saturday night (May 17) in 1:50.2.
The Cutler was the first major test of the season for the Free For All trotters, promising a battle royale between last week’s elimination winners Sebastian K and Market Share and record speed possibilities that went awry when Market Share made an uncharacteristic break in the first turn.
As the race began Modern Family was put into play early by David Miller, using his keen gate speed to clear to the front before the turn with Sebastian K protecting the rail for Ake Svanstedt and securing the pocket through the :27.1 opener.
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