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To Dream On and David Miller slingshot their way into the lead in the last few lengths to win the $354,450 Merrie Annabelle Stake for 2-year-old trotting fillies on Saturday afternoon at the Meadowlands Racetrack in a track and stakes record time of 1:54. 
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Making only his third career start, Captaintreacherous blew the field away in the $309,050 Woodrow Wilson final for freshman pacing colts, winning by open lengths in a track record 1:49.3 Saturday. Driven by Tim Tetrick, the Somebeachsomewhere colt pulled away in the turn and was unchallenged in the lane to collect his second win for trainer Tony Alagna. Hail The Taxi and Martini Hanover rounded out the trifecta.
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Helene Gregory rode Master Pine to victory in the racing under saddle trot Saturday at the Meadowlands Racetrack in a North American race-record 1:57.1.
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Sarandon Blue Chip rallied for a 3-1/2 length victory in 1:50.1, capturing the 29th edition of the $150,000 Thomas D’Altrui Miss New Jersey on Saturday afternoon (August 4) at the Meadowlands.
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RICHARD HUGHES timed his run to perfection on The Fugue to continue John Gosden's remarkable run in Group 1 contests for fillies and mares this summer.
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Linda Toscano becomes first female trainer to win the Hambletonian. And for the definitive piece on this milestome, you must read the column by my colleague of three decades, John Rowe. Attendance was 24,521 – after five consecutive years of 25,000 or 26,000. Too hot? Was the $5 price tag a deterrent – even though parking was free, and you got a program and a baseball hat with the price of admission?
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Trinniberg, one of the top-rated 3-year-old sprinters in the country, tuned up for his role as the potential favorite in the Grade 1 King’s Bishop here later this month with an easy half-mile breeze in 49.49 seconds over the Oklahoma training track...
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Top Billing, who just missed qualifying for the Hambletonian final, took out his revenge on a Pennsylvania Sires Stakes field on Friday (August 3) at The Meadows by capturing his division in a stakes record 1:53.4 for Dave Palone.
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LAST year's Preakness Stakes winner Shackleford Dale Romans John Velazquez drops right back to a sprint trip on Sunday when he concedes at least 5lb to seven rivals in the Grade 1 Vanderbilt at Saratoga...
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The second round of the Girls’ Night Out Pacing Series continued on Friday evening at Mohawk. Gracie Montana and Ferrari Sena captured their $30,000 divisions to mark their spot in the rich $50,000 final taking place next Friday, August 10 at Mohawk.
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The second round of the Girls’ Night Out Pacing Series continued on Friday evening (August 3) at Mohawk.
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Yonkers Raceway's usual Friday night pair of $44,000 Open Handicaps--for trotters and distaff pacers, respectively--were won by E L Rock (George Brennan, $53.50) and Keeper's Destiny (Brennan, $10).
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Heston Blue Chip, fresh off of his 1:49.2 track record equaling mile in a division of the New York Sires Stakes last Sunday at Tioga Downs, headlines 15 pacing colts in the Empire Breeders Classic eliminations on Sunday afternoon (August 5) at Tioga Downs. Post time is 1:30 p.m.
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The 4-5 favorite Chapter Seven (Tim Tetrick) was the winner of the $250,000 Nat Ray Stake for older trotters on Saturday at the Meadowlands Racetrack in a world record 1:50.1.
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Jerseylicious (Corey Callahan) won the $268,300 Sweetheart Stake for 2-year-old pacing fillies on Saturday at the Meadowlands Racetrack, wearing down Nikki Beach (Brian Sears) in deep stretch for the win in 1:52.1 for her maiden victory.
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Midwest Thoroughbreds, the leading owner in North America in wins since 2010, has fired one of its trainers, Brad Cox, and has shipped the 30 horses he trained at Churchill Downs to Jamie Ness on the East Coast.
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Driver Jody Jamieson found room late in the stretch with Put On A Show and burst along the pylons for a world-record 1:47.3 victory in the $253,700 Lady Liberty for older female pacers Saturday at the Meadowlands Racetrack.
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Only one Hall of Fame trainer in harness history has conditioned three Hambletonian winners using the same Hall of Fame driver, in the same decade, at the same racetrack. Astute harness racing and Hambletonian fans know that can be none other than Ron Gurfein, racing’s “trotting guru.”
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Despite being involved in harness racing for going on three decades, Peter Arrigenna had never stepped foot on the grounds of the Meadowlands, the sport’s premier facility.
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The connections of Successful Dan will attempt to bring the multiple graded stakes winner back from a third significant injury after the 6-year-old gelding was found with a strained distal sesamoidean ligament in his left foreleg.
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A new track record and a guest announcer highlighted a jam-packed Fun & Frivolity Friday Night (August 3) preceding the biggest race day of the year at Grand River Raceway.
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Kelley Racing Stable’s Twisted Pretzel, trained by Paul Kelley and driven by Jim Morrill, Jr., scored his first pari-mutuel victory in the third and final $39,000-plus division of the New York Sire Stakes 2-year-old colt and gelding trot at Batavia Downs on Friday evening (August 3) in a sparkling 1:59.1, the fastest time of the divisions.
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Kelley Racing Stable’s Twisted Pretzel, trained by Paul Kelley and driven by Jim Morrill, Jr., scored his first pari-mutuel victory in the third and final $39,000-plus division of the New York Sire Stakes 2-year-old colt and gelding trot at Batavia Downs on Friday evening (August 3) in a sparkling 1:59.1, the fastest time of the divisions.
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Driver Ryan Stahl didn’t get the trip he wanted in the $42,000 Ohio’s First Lady Pace at Scioto Downs on Friday night (August 3), but his courageous 3-year-old filly Special Lady D overcame adversity to win by a length in 1:53.4.
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Harness racing’s top-ranked older trotters --- Chapter Seven and Mister Herbie --- are ready to renew acquaintances in Saturday’s $250,000 Nat Ray Invitational at the Meadowlands Racetrack as part of a star-studded Hambletonian Day card.
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