Two-year-old trotting colts took centerstage at Georgian Downs on Tuesday evening, with Enough About You clocking the quickest mile of eight Grassroots divisions.
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Chris Ryder might not be willing to guarantee a victory by Put On A Show in Friday's $218,850 Golden Girls for pacing mares at Meadowlands Racetrack, but the trainer believes his horse is ready for another top performance. 
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Me And Cinderella and Smoother Ride each won their fourth consecutive race to highlight Stallion Series action on Tuesday night (Aug. 14) at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs. There were six Stallion Series divisions held for 2-year-old colts and geldings on the trot, each carrying a purse of $20,000.
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Just six days after they battled in their third Gold Final, Ontario’s top 3-year-old trotting colts return to action on Saturday evening (Aug. 18) at Mohawk Racetrack.
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A nine-race card greeted visitors to the Washington County Fairgrounds, known as Arden Downs, on Tuesday (Aug. 14). Freshmen were featuredin both PA Sire Stake and Quaker Stakes events.
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Waiting patiently while his rivals dueled themselves into submission, Johns Polyview launched a powerful uncovered move that carried him to victory in 1:51.1 — a track and stakes record — in Tuesday’s (Aug. 14) Pennsylvania Sires Stakes at The Meadows.
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When Grace Hall crosses Union Avenue from Barn 57 en route to an engagement in the $600,000 Alabama Stakes (gr. I) at Saratoga Race Course Aug. 18, a plan masterminded by trainer Tony Dutrow could come closer to fruition with every one of her elegant strides.
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Santa Anita Park has announced a 28-event stakes schedule worth over $4 million in purses for its 24-day Autumn Meet that begins Sept. 28. The meet will be keynoted by six grade I "Win and You’re In" Breeders’ Cup prep stakes, five of which will be run Saturday, Sept. 29, with the remaining grade I event to be run Saturday, Oct. 6.
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Johns Polyview, a 3-year-old colt by McArdle, stole the show at The Meadows on Tuesday afternoon as he won an $81,444 Pennsylvania Sire Stakes division in a track and stakes-record setting time of 1:51.1. Donna Marshall trains the homebred for John Mortberg's Mortberg Trust of Torrance, Calif. He lowered the stakes and track mark of 1:51.2 set last year by Dapper Dude.
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Twenty-two of the sport’s top 2-year-old pacing colts will be showcased this Saturday night at Mohawk when they contest three divisions of the Nassagaweya Stakes. The Nassagaweya is a springboard to the $1 million Metro Pace, which is slated for Saturday (September 1) at the Campbellville oval.
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Mike Stidham has won some big races during his career, including nine graded stakes among 22 stakes wins at Arlington Park, but the track's Grade 1 races have eluded the veteran trainer. Stidham hopes to remedy that situation on Saturday when he sends Willcox Inn and Upperline postward in the Arlington Million and Beverly D., respectively.
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Sophomore trotting filly Check Me Out regained the top spot in this week’s Hambletonian Society/Breeders Crown poll.
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Though Monticello Raceway has yet to hear from Cat Manzi or Ed Lohmeyer about their possible participation in the track's sixth Heritage Drivers Series preliminary leg, the Godfather Pace for drivers of Italian extraction, which will be presented on Monday (August 27), acceptance calls have recently come from Mike Forte, Kyle DiBenedetto and Jimmy Marohn.
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Me And Cinderella and Smoother Ride each won their fourth consecutive race to highlight Pennsylvania Stallion Series action on Tuesday night at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs. There were six Stallion Series divisions held for 2-year-old colts and geldings on the trot, each carrying a purse of $20,000.
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Zeke Parker broke out again reining five winners on the 12-race card on Tuesday at Monticello Raceway. It marks the third time in the past two weeks that Parker has won five or more races on a card.
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Jay Wolf, assistant publicity director of the Little Brown Jug, ranked the top 10 contenders for the 67th edition of the 3-year-old pacing classic, to be held on Sept. 20.
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Tuesday's (Aug. 14) edition of Racing Roundup features a results story from Monticello Raceway.
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Trainers John McDermott and Kevin McDermott, as well as Bergen Record reporter John Brennan, will be honored by the New Jersey chapter of the U.S. Harness Writers Association in winner’s circle ceremonies after the first race on Friday night (Aug. 17) at Meadowlands Racetrack. First race post time is 6:35 p.m.
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The prospective field for the Juddmonte International Stakes (Eng-G1) on August 22, opening day of York's four-day Ebor meeting, grew more interesting on Tuesday when Teddy Grimthorpe, racing manager for race sponsor Prince Khalid Abdullah, told reporters that defending winner Twice Over is likely to start in the about 1 5/16-mile race, joining Abdullah's homebred and undefeated superstar Frankel.
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Chris Ryder might not be willing to guarantee a victory by Put On A Show in Friday’s $218,850 Golden Girls for pacing mares at Meadowlands Racetrack, but the trainer believes his horse is ready for another top performance.
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Call him the Todd of the Turf. Dale Romans this year has been Pletcher-like in his number of stakes starters, except he's been dominant on the grass more than the dirt. He intends to launch an all-out attack on this weekend's big stakes at Arlington Park, sending out Little Mike in the Arlington Million (gr. IT) and Silver Max, Cozzetti, and Finnegans Wake in the Secretariat Stakes (gr. IT).
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Contenders in the 2012 Slots Cup Series will have one last bid for a berth in the C$100,000 final when Flamboro Downs hosts a lone qualifying division in leg seven this Friday (August 17).
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The cream of the crop of the New York Sire Stakes (NYSS) 2-year-old pacing fillies will be looking to add precious points to seasonal resumes with hopes of having enough to be among the top eight who will automatically earn a berth in their $225,000 final on the Night of Champions on Sept. 22.
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"Shug" McGaughey has won many of the sport's top prizes including classic and Breeders' Cup races, but the Hall of Fame trainer would consider the Grade 1 Arlington Million as one of his crowning achievements should Boisterous win on Saturday.
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Dark drizzly rain fell on Hazel Park as the GLADA amateurs paraded to the gate on Monday (August 13), but nothing like a little bit wet and a little bit hard to see dampened the efforts of Kelly Walker and his own Jedrik Hanover on their way to a second season's win.
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