Championship honors are still up for grabs among the sophomore filly division, but the picture could become a bit clearer on Saturday when seven line up in the Grade 1, $600,000 Alabama Stakes going 1 1/4 miles at Saratoga.
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There was a time when owner Richard Gutnick would have considered seeing two of his horses win stakes races at his home track as the best day of his harness racing life. 
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Acclamation came out of an Aug. 13 gallop with slight swelling in his left front ankle which owner E.W. "Bud" Johnston said will prevent a title defense in the $1 million TVG Pacific Classic (gr. I) Aug. 26.
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Curlin winner Street Life and Grade 2 Jim Dandy runner-up Neck n' Neck were pronounced in fine form Wednesday morning by their respective connections after the two worked Tuesday in preparation for the Grade 1, $1 million Travers on August 25.
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The International Festival of Racing at Arlington Park, outside of Chicago, holds the Beverly D. (gr. IT) as a guaranteed berth into the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf (gr. IT) later this fall at Santa Anita.
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Trainer Joseph Vance of Westbury, N.Y., is in the middle of a week to remember. The 59-year-old conditioner, who trains a stable of six on the East Coast, is currently enjoying a five-race winning streak after his horse Fortissimo won the second race $10,000 conditioned trot on Wednesday afternoon (August 15) at Harrah's Philadelphia.
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Alexie Mattosie, who won the 2011 William Haughton Memorial at the Meadowlands, won't have a chance to defend his title as he has been scratched "lame” from Saturday's $431,400 renewal of the race for older pacers. Co-owner Wil Alempijevic told harnessracing.com Wednesday afternoon that an injury discovered after a training mile earlier in the day prompted the decision.
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Prominent New York owner Ken Jacobs really wanted his top 3-year-old pacer Heston Blue Chip to win the Meadowlands Pace. But after his fourth place finish, the focus shifted towards winning the Empire Breeders Classic at Tioga Downs. Jacobs got his wish over the weekend when Heston Blue Chip not only won the $270,000 race, he also broke his own track record in his 1:48.4 performance.
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It might be a stretch to call Golden Receiver the hardest working horse in harness racing, but the 7-year-old pacer has certainly kept busy.
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Brereton Jones' homebred Believe You Can, who had been working toward a start in the Aug. 18 Alabama Stakes (gr. I), will instead be given some time off at Jones' Airdrie Stud near Midway, Ky.
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The sky cleared up in mid-afternoon on Tuesday (August 14) and provided a beautiful evening of harness racing and Trottingbred racing at the Henry County Fair in Napoleon, Ohio. Seven harness races were complemented with five Trottingbred races to give the enthusiastic crowd an enjoyable evening of entertainment.
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A large number of drivers and trainers at Running Aces Harness Park pledged all of their 5 percent commissions on the Tuesday night (Aug. 14) program to a fellow horseman and friend who was injured in a racing accident at the Minnesota five-eighths-mile oval on Aug. 5.
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Sam "Chip” Noble, III, one of Ohio's and the sport's leading drivers, scored career victory 5,000 on Aug. 14 at the Troy Ohio fair, when he guided She Can Attack to win an Ohio Fair Stake in 2:02.
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Turbo Compressor goes after the biggest score of his career Aug. 18 when he heads a field of nine in the 38th running of the $600,000 Sword Dancer Invitational (gr. IT) at Saratoga Race Course.
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Fresh from his first win since taking the Resorts World New York Casino Wood Memorial (gr. I) in April 2011, Toby's Corner returns in the $150,000 Philip H. Iselin Stakes (gr. III) Aug. 18 at Monmouth Park.
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Although it shares a date on the calendar with the prestigious Arlington Million Stakes (G1), the Sword Dancer Invitational Stakes (G1), to be contested this Saturday at Saratoga Race Course, drew a deep and talented field. Grade 1 winners Point of Entry, Turbo Compressor, and Brilliant Speed, as well as graded stakes winner Al Khali and Newsdad, are set to contest the 1 ½-mile turf event.
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A field of 11 is set for the 30th running of the Arlington Million (gr. IT) Aug. 18 at Arlington Park, with Phipps Stable's Boisterous installed as the 4-1 morning line favorite.
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Tamla Celeber won the European Championship for mares on Wednesday night (Aug. 15) at the Solvalla track in Stockholm, Sweden, and after the race trainer Roger Walmann said he would be shipping her to the U.S. to compete in the Allerage Trot for mares at The Red Mile on Sunday, Oct. 7, the same day as the Kentucky Futurity. The mare is also eligible to the Breeders Crown.
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Ohio-based trainer Brian Brown said today that all of the passengers and horses involved in a head-on collision on I-70 last night while returning to Ohio after racing at the The Meadows in Washington, Pa., are doing well.
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Four New Jersey Sire Stakes champions will be crowned on Friday night (August 17) when the Meadowlands hosts the $150,000 finals for 2-year-olds on closing night of the 2012 meet.
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Harness Night School, the racing industry’s national online fan education program dedicated to the Standardbred set, offers a fifth session this Thursday (Aug. 16) at 7 p.m. (EDT), with a focus on “Class, Conditions and Shippers.” Meadowlands race secretary Peter Koch and Chicago-based handicapper Mike “The Coyote” Antoniades will serve as guest panelists.
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JOCKEY Johnny Murtagh will miss York's Ebor meeting next week after his hopes for a quick return to action on Sunday were dashed on Wednesday.
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At 53, Dan Cappello, Jr. has become a homebody.
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The Review Stakes took center stage before the grandstand on the Illinois State Fairgrounds on Tuesday (Sugust 14). A strong headwind up the backstretch, and a track deemed “slow” by a few of the horsemen, nonetheless provided some very strong performances by 2- and 3-year-old harness horses.
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Archangel continued his dominance in the New York Sire Stakes on Tuesday night (August 14) at Saratoga Casino and Raceway.
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