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September 22, 2015 11:31 AM
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Dismissed at 12-1, Mattamerican followed the live cover of the favorite, Cammikey, then brushed through the lane to score the upset victory in Friday's $15,000 Winners Over $10,000 Life Pace at The Meadows. The race was set up for closers when Sam Hill was forced to a wicked :25.4 opening panel while battling for the lead. Cammikey led the outside flow, providing escort service for Mattamerican, who triumphed in 1:50.3 for Eric Ledford. I'm The Pied Piper rallied for second, 2 1/2 lengths back, while Cammikey saved show.
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September 22, 2015 11:26 AM
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Odds-on fave Krispy Apple (Jason Bartlett, $2.90) couldn’t possibly have had it any easier Friday night (Sept. 18), winning Yonkers Raceway’s $48,000 Filly and Mare Open Handicap Pace.
An assigned 8 hole isn’t quite as difficult when none of the other seven inside of you leave. So, the millionairess made ‘em pay, making a simple lead before coming out of the first turn and strolling through subsections of :27.4, :55.4, 1:23.3 and 1:51. The margin, punctuated by a :27.2 kicker, was 3-½ lengths turning for home before ballooning to five lengths at the wire. The mile set a new track record for older pacing mares.
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September 22, 2015 11:26 AM
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After rating a soft 1:00 middle half, Dayson ($3.10) kicked clear at will in upper stretch, keeping a career-long winning streak alive in Friday (Sept. 18) evening's New York Sire Stakes races at Vernon Downs.
Twelve 2-year-old trotters, split into two equal divisions of six, vied for $107,000 in combined purses in the evening's co-featured events. Dayson, sent off the odds-on favorite in the second division (race 6), allowed Crown Point (Dan Daley) to vault clear in the initial furlong before making his move to the fore.
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September 22, 2015 11:25 AM
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Robert E. Masterson's Churchill Downs Distaff Turf Mile (gr. IIT) winner Tepin returned to the work tab Sept. 18 at the Louisville oval. The 4-year-old daughter of Bernstein worked a bullet going five furlongs in 1:00 2/5, her first breeze since a runner-up effort in the Aug. 29 Ketel One Ballston Spa (gr. IIT) at Saratoga Race Course.
Norman Casse, assistant trainer to his father, Mark, said Tepin would make her next start in the $400,000 First Lady (gr. IT) at Keeneland on Oct. 3. That race is run at one mile, which Casse said is ideal for his filly.
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September 22, 2015 11:22 AM
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Already a three-time stakes winner this season, including Grade 3 scores in the Honeybee Stakes at Oaklawn Park and the Iowa Oaks at Prairie Meadows, Sarah Sis will try to add the $350,000 Charles Town Oaks Sept. 19 at Charles Town Races and Slots.
Installed as the 9-5 favorite, Joe Ragsdale's Sarah Sis will break from the inside in the expected field of six 3-year-old fillies. The daughter of Sharp Humor enters off a fourth-place finish in the Ballerina Stakes at Saratoga Race Course, where she led early before fading.
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September 21, 2015 2:39 PM
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Dustin Jones was hopeful Dont Rush could be an Ontario Sire Stakes Grassroots trotter heading into his 2-year-old season. More than $360,000 in earnings later, the son of Infinitif will start from post two in Saturday’s (Sept. 19) C$700,000 Canadian Trotting Classic.
Dont Rush won four of 11 starts last season, including his final start in the $222,500 Ontario Sires Stakes Super Final. Co-owned and bred by Dustin Jones Stable Inc., Dont Rush has been a pleasant surprise for his conditioner.
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September 21, 2015 2:39 PM
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Creatine, who has been campaigning in Sweden this year and is being pointed to the 2016 Prix d'Amerique in Paris, will be returning home to US soil to compete in the $1 million International Trot at Yonkers Raceway on Saturday afternoon, Oct. 10. Adam Bowden, who shares ownership of Creatine with Bob and Lynda Stewart, spoke with Creatine's trainer, Jimmy Takter, at The Red Mile on Thursday night and Takter told him all systems are go for the horse to fly to New York later this month. Takter has lined up his brother, Jimmy, to drive Creatine in the International. Jimmy expects to be busy at The Red Mile with 3-year-old trotters competing in the Kentucky Futurity, which is also the afternoon of Oct. 10.
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September 21, 2015 2:35 PM
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For a horse that has yet to taste defeat this season Homicide Hunter sure has not received his fair share of ink. The gelded son from the first crop of Mr Cantab and the Like A Prayer mare Evening Prayer has mowed down his rivals with pinpoint accuracy on 12 occasions this season and seeks to extend his victorious ways on Saturday (Sept. 19) in the $75,000 Indiana Sire Stakes final at Hoosier Park after one of the most grueling contests he has performed in.
“He fought back in that race,” said Curt Grummel, the horse’s conditioner, of his win in the Sept. 11 Indiana Sire Stakes elimination. “The transformation this horse has made since last year is unbelievable. He showed how much courage he has by coming back on after he was passed. He really wants to win.”
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September 21, 2015 2:28 PM
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The Kindergarten Trotting series continued on Thursday evening at The Red Mile. The colt divisions began the evening with Maven's Way scoring a $37.20 upset for young Oskar Florhed, taking a nice record of 1:55.3 in the process. The son of Muscle Hill from Doris Deo sat close up early, then wore down Dominion Beach in the shadow of the wire for the win. Maven's Way is trained by Ake Svanstedt for his own interests along with partners Mal & Janet Burroughs and TLP Stable. Charlie Norris worked out a perfect pocket trip for Cloud Nine Hanover in the next division for a huge $54.40 upset after favored Southwind Flash broke on the final bend. Norris trains the son of Muscle Massive, who was winning for the first time on behalf of his wife Carrie, Acadia Farms and G&B Racing. Celebrity Express rallied from well back for the place.
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September 21, 2015 2:28 PM
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Billy's Star, winner of the Aug. 23 Victoria Park Stakes last time out, heads a group of eight sophomores, including Victoria runner-up Firespike, in the $150,000Ontario Derby (Can-III) Sept. 20 at Woodbine.
Perfect Timber Partnership's Billy's Star, a 3-year-old Ontario-bred son of Perfect Soul , won the Victoria Park by 1 1/4 lengths with a driving five-wide move from the back of the pack under Alan Garcia, who gets the mount back here from post seven.
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September 21, 2015 10:00 AM
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Saturday is Open Space Pace Day at Freehold Raceway, but the racing highlight of the card is actually a trot -- a $20,000 Preferred Trot -- with nine going to post for a 1-1/2 mile race.
That is three times around the half-mile track, and the first 1-1/2 mile race in the modern era of Freehold Raceway, or as long as anyone can remember. The traditional distance for most harness races is one mile.
Gural Hanover, driven by Joe Bongiorno and trained by Ron Burke, has been installed as the 8-5 morning line favorite in the featured seventh race, the $20,000 Open Space Pace Preferred Trot Handicap.
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September 21, 2015 9:57 AM
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Texas Red, winner of the 2014 Sentient Jet Breeders' Cup Juvenile (gr. I) and this year's edition of the Jim Dandy (gr. II), will miss the rest of 2015 due to a cannon bone bruise.
Erich Brehm Jr., son of co-owner Eric Brehm broke the news via Twitter Sept. 17, when he said the Afleet Alex colt would require 60 to 90 days of paddock time and that his connections will look to bring him back in 2016.
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September 21, 2015 9:55 AM
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Some of harness racing's top older pacers will descend on the hub of Delaware Monday, Sept. 21, for the ninth annual $150,000 Bobby Quillen Memorial Invitational at Harrington Raceway. Carded as the 8th race on a 13-race program, eight pacers with combined lifetime earnings of nearly $13 million will duke it out in a showdown of some of the sport's elite older pacing ranks, including three-time Quillen champion (2010, 2011, 2014) and the richest horse of all-time in harness racing, Foiled Again (2-1, Yannick Gingras). The 11-year-old Dragon Again gelding is coming off a difficult trip in the Canadian Pacing Derby. Three local interests are in the field, including Bandolito (5-1, Daryl Bier) who is one of just two horses in the field with a recent win over the track. Milford, Delaware based trainer Josh Green will send out $1.3 million winner Dancin Yankee and Harrington-based Just a Jolt Is a two-time defending Governors Cup champion over the Harrington oval for trainer Jim King Jr.
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September 22, 2015 11:26 AM
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Odds-on fave Krispy Apple (Jason Bartlett, $2.90) couldn’t possibly have had it any easier Friday night (Sept. 18), winning Yonkers Raceway’s $48,000 Filly and Mare Open Handicap Pace.
An assigned 8 hole isn’t quite as difficult when none of the other seven inside of you leave. So, the millionairess made ‘em pay, making a simple lead before coming out of the first turn and strolling through subsections of :27.4, :55.4, 1:23.3 and 1:51. The margin, punctuated by a :27.2 kicker, was 3-½ lengths turning for home before ballooning to five lengths at the wire. The mile set a new track record for older pacing mares.
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September 22, 2015 11:26 AM
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After rating a soft 1:00 middle half, Dayson ($3.10) kicked clear at will in upper stretch, keeping a career-long winning streak alive in Friday (Sept. 18) evening's New York Sire Stakes races at Vernon Downs.
Twelve 2-year-old trotters, split into two equal divisions of six, vied for $107,000 in combined purses in the evening's co-featured events. Dayson, sent off the odds-on favorite in the second division (race 6), allowed Crown Point (Dan Daley) to vault clear in the initial furlong before making his move to the fore.
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September 22, 2015 11:25 AM
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Belmont Derby winner Force the Pass hopes to rebound from a third-place finish in the Aug. 15 Secretariat Stakes , and towers over a field of eight in the $400,000 Commonwealth Derby presented by the Virginia Equine Alliance at Laurel Park Sept. 19.
The 3-year-old Speightstown runner broke through in the Belmont Derby after winning the Penn Mile for owner Richard Santulli, taking the 1-1/4-mile test in New York by 3-3/4 lengths.
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September 22, 2015 11:23 AM
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Cree collected her first career victory in the $7,000 first leg of the New Jersey Sire Stakes – Green Acres for 2-year-old trotting fillies, the third race on Friday (Sept. 18) at Freehold Raceway.
Trainer Trond Smedshammer drove the daughter ofMuscle Hill – Firstclassprincess to a three-quarter-length victory over Southwind Hope [Muscle Hill], who captured the opening leg of the Green Acres division. It was 4-1/4 lengths to Heal The World [Muscle Hill] in third.
Cree [$3.60], bred and owned by Michael Andrew of Gorham, Maine, was on the front at every call in the 2:02.1 mile. She now has a win, a second and a third in six starts and earnings of $8,050.
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September 22, 2015 11:22 AM
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The 45th edition of the Jugette saw entries for 12 sophomore filly pacers forcing race officials to divide the field into two $50,450 eliminations on Wednesday, Sept. 23, with the top four finishers advancing to the $151,350 second heat. Due to a clerical error, the race officials at the Delaware, Ohio fairgrounds were forced to conduct a redraw. The second elimination features the two of the richest entries, Sassa Hanover and Band Of Angels.
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September 21, 2015 2:39 PM
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All eyes will be on Mission Brief in Saturday's Elegantimage at Mohawk Racetrack, but Danielle Hall is slowly starting to find the stride that banked her over $500,000 as a 2 year old. The daughter of Deweycheatumnhowe will leave from post six in the $404,000 Elegantimage for 3-year-old filly trotters for Jody and Carl Jamieson. Last season, Danielle Hall won the $250,000 Ontario Sires Stakes Super Final and finished second in the $500,000 Breeders Crown. All signs pointed towards another strong year for the trotting filly, but a setback earlier this season slowed down the Jamieson trainee.
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September 21, 2015 2:38 PM
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The opening day (Sunday, Sept. 20) of the 2015 Delaware County Fair has drawn 16 races, including three divisions of the $107,433 Ohio Breeders Championships for 2-year-old filly pacers.
The Ohio Sire Stakes champion Miss Me Yet headlines the $35,811 third division of the OBC filly pace. Miss Me Yet is owned by George Teague Jr., is trained by his sister, Brenda and driven by his son, Montrell. The daughter of I’m Gorgeous-Live Inspired has finished in the top three in all six of her seasonal starts and has earned more than $171,000.
The Teagues also campaign the expected Little Brown Jug favorite, Wiggle It Jiggleit, in Thursday’s race presented by Fazoli’s.
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September 21, 2015 2:33 PM
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Spendthrift Farm's Beholder turned in what might end up being her final timed workout in preparation for the Zenyatta Stakes (gr .I) when she covered six furlongs in 1:12 4/5 Sept. 18 at Santa Anita Park.
The 5-year-old daughter of Henny Hughes breezed in company with stablemate Architop and was under the guidance of regular rider Gary Stevens. It was her third workout since her dominating victory in the TVG Pacific Classic (gr. I) at Del Mar Aug. 22. She's seeking her third straight score in the Sept. 26 Zenyatta, after capturing the 2013 and 2014 editions.
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September 21, 2015 2:28 PM
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Joe Larry N Curly (Roll With Joe-Life's Image) broke the track record for 2-year-old pacers on Thursday (Sept. 17) at Saratoga Casino and Raceway. The Mark Harder-trained freshman colt was the public's overwhelming betting favorite in a $73,712 New York Sire Stakes race on a beautiful afternoon in the Spa City. Jim Morrill Jr. piloted the 2-year-old pacing star and moved him to the lead going to the opening quarter. Only briefly confronted in the mile, Joe Larry N Curly was confidently piloted and well in hand at the wire while a measured one length winner in 1:53.1. The win time bested the previous mark of 1:53.3 for a freshman pacing colt set by Heston Blue Chip on the Night of Champions at Saratoga in 2011.
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September 21, 2015 10:01 AM
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Magic Tonight, whose win in the Elitlopp made him an early invitee/acceptance for Yonkers Raceway’s International Trot, has bowed out.
Since his big win at Solvalla, the 6-year-old son ofAndover Hall has been lackluster in three North American stakes appearances, including finishing sixth (and last) in his elimination last weekend for the Maple Leaf Trot.
Magic Tonight’s connections, including trainer Roger Walmann, informed Yonkers’ race secretary Steve Starr of the decision, saying it was based on both the best interests of the horse and the race.
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September 21, 2015 9:58 AM
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An Ake Svanstedt trainee won the $50,500 Charles I. Smith Trot for three-year-olds, but it was not 2-5 favorite Southwind Mozart, who finished second, but rather 2-1 Crescent Fashion, who scored a length and three-quarters victory in the featured third race on Thursday, Sept. 17, at Freehold Raceway. The Smith and the Dancer are both restricted to New Jersey-sired trotters and are sponsored by the Standardbred Breeders & Owners Association of New Jersey. In the $35,000 Harold Dancer for two-year-olds, contested prior to the betting card, the Richard Johnson-trained Steed won with Daniel Dube driving. Crescent Fashion [$6.20], driven by Scott Zeron, rallied first over to pass the fraction-cutting Mountain Top, who hung on for third by seven and a half lengths, and out- brushed Southwind Mozart for his third win in 10 starts this year.
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September 21, 2015 9:56 AM
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Ron Burke says he was all wrong about Southwind Frank. But with the way the horse has raced, the trainer is feeling alright. Southwind Frank is the 2-5 morning line favorite in Saturday's C$373,000 William Wellwood Memorial for 2-year-old male trotters at Mohawk Racetrack. The colt has won seven of eight career races -- all stakes events -- and enters Saturday with a six-race win streak. Last Friday, he won his Wellwood elimination by 1-1/2 lengths over Marion Marauder in 1:56.3 over a surface labeled "good” because of rain. "I don't think I've ever been as wrong on a horse as I've been with him,” Burke said. "I can't believe how far he's come. It's amazing. I have a good feeling about him.”
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