Harness/Trotting Racing
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Muscle Hill Will Win Harness Horse of the Year
Muscle Hill cruised to the Standardbred Breeders Crown title. He is being mentioned with the very greats of harness racing, and should easily capture Horse of the Year.
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Muscle Hill Looking Like Best Trotter Ever
Trainer Greg Peck on Muscle Hill: "...a lot of people have said to me that he's the greatest trotter they've ever seen". The colt will finish in the Breeders Crown.
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Showherthemoney Wins the Jugette
Standardbred pacer Showherthemoney straightened out her erratic gait and became the first daughter of a previous champion to win Delaware, Ohio's prestigious Jugette.
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Western Hanover Sons Dominated Little Brown Jug
Western Hanover topped 2008 as the year's leading money-earning pacing sire, and he's got a lock on 2009, as well. His boys Well Said and If I Can Dream won in the Jug.
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Little Brown Jug Draws Top Four Pacers
Owners decided their pacing stars could handle multiple heats at the Little Brown Jug, which drew all four of the season's top pacers. The purse was up from last season.
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Well Said Wins Little Brown Jug in Two Heats
In a dandy second heat of Western Hanover colts, NA Cup and Meadowlands Pace victor Well Said and If I Can Dream battled home from the last turn in the Little Brown Jug.
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Meadowlands Pace Yonkers Cards and Driving Stats
Ron Pierce vaulted to second place in 2009 earnings behind victories with Well Said and Judge Joe in the Meadowlands Pace and the Yonkers. He is chasing Tim Tetrick.
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Muscle Hill Leads 2009 Money Winning Trotters
Muscle Hill's Hambletonian margin of victory surpassed that of 1968's Nevele Pride. He leads trotters in season earnings at $1.3 million since his World Trotting Derby.
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Muscle Hill Takes World Trotting Derby
While Muscle Hill continued to dominate the trotting class in the World Derby, Vintage Master pulled off a major victory in the Cane Pace, a pacing Triple Crown event.
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Fancy Pedigrees Come to the Henry County Fair
Albatross, Precious Bunny, and Cam's Card Shark raced at this year's Henry County Fair via their offspring, who represented these great racers and revered stallions.
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Inforthewin Went For Win at Henry County Fair
Findlay's Inforthewin got first place cheers for the first time at the Henry County Fair in Napoleon on August 19. Her trainer, driver, and co-owner is H.D. Schoonover.
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I'm Loaded and Greg Bateson At Henry County Fair
Leading at the stretch, Indiana filly I'm Loaded, driven by Greg Bateson, was overcome by the explosive kick of Hustlin Hooray in Henry County Fair harness racing.
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Headworth Wins Five Henry County Fair Races
Driver Mark Headworth closed with a rush at the Henry County Fair, winning four of the day's last six races. Booze Cruiser's slim victory over Oh My Sam thrilled fans.
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Suggs Get Henry County Fair Wins
Hi Hopes Cruiser won his fourth race from ten career starts at the Henry County Fair in Ohio for the Suggs, training family of pacing Triple Crown champ No Pan Intended.
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Muscle Hill Sets Speed Records in Hambletonian
Muscle Hill tied the Hambletonian world record speed mark and trashed the stakes record. Brian Sears won his first Hambo and first Oaks. Well Said faded in the Adios.
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North America Cup Undercard Winners
Not Enough scored a squeaker win over Yellow Diamond in the Fan Hanover. Federal Flex went ill after the Goodtimes, and Celebrity Deville impressed Elegantimage fans.
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Well Said Gives Owner Fourth NA Cup Title
Ohio lineage colt Well Said devastated the final NA Cup field with speed, gave owner Jeffrey Snyder a fourth event title, and set a new standard for the final heat.
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Well Said Won North America Cup In Record Time
Driving Well Said, Ron Pierce watched the final at June's North America Cup set up perfectly for his colt, and they blasted to the winner's circle in record time.
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Major Harness Star Maltese Artist Euthanized
Standardbred racing lost a pacing giant in May when Maltese Artist broke down at Western Fair Raceway during a Molson Pace elimination round. His injuries were fatal.
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Somebeachsomewhere Voted Into Hall of Fame
Horseman Keith Clark, SBSW, and Rich N Elegant have been voted to the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame. Hypnotic Blue Chip is reaching his potential this season.
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Somebeach Gets Harness Horse of the Year
SBSW, a pacing phenom, and driver Tim Tetrick, who scored 903 victories, were voted harness racing's Horse of the Year and Driver of the Year, respectively, for 2008.
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Muscle Hill Dominates Breeders Crown 2-Year-Olds
Muscles Yankee son Muscle Hill ran circles around his division competition this year, making Muscles Yankee the season's dominant sire. He is also daddy to Dewey.
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Tetrick Adds to Leading Money With Kadealia
Approaching $20 million in earnings, Standardbred driver Tim Tetrick scored with Kadealia in the $500,000 Breeders Crown. Kadealia was a 75-1 underdog who paid $152.00.
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A And G'sconfusion Becomes $1 Million Winner
Earnings of $1 million is a big figure in Standardbred racing . Allamerican Native's daughter A And G'sconfusion rallied to reach that plateau in the Breeders Crown.
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Somebeach and Dewey Legends in Their Time
It isn't often in any sport that great talents emerge to legendary status in their own time. Harness racing fans were treated to 2007 and 2008 races of SBSW and Dewey.
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Contributing Articles in Harness/Trotting Racing
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Saratoga Raceway Seasonal Win Record Broken
Frank Coppola Jr thought he had a once-in-a-lifetime season at Saratoga in 2008 when he set a seasonal win record (321) and was named Driver and Horseman of the Year.
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Big Payoff at Saratoga Gaming and Raceway
Harness racing fans born on March 7 or who reside on 37 Anywhere Street USA got a kick out of the first race at Saratoga Gaming and Raceway on 11/19/09.
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Women Trainers Succeeding at Saratoga Raceway
Women trainers, like their more prevalent male counterparts, are the daily caretakers of pacers and trotters at Saratoga Raceway and other tracks in the USA and Canada
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Star Trotters of the Palo Alto Farm, 1881-1895
The Palo Alto Stock Farm consistently produced trotting horses that lowered records.
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World's Largest Trotter Horse Farm, Late 1800s
In 1876 he began building his huge horse operation in Palo Alto, about 30 miles south of San Francisco.
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Rules for Raising a Champion Trotting Horse
The Palo Alto System, devised by Leland Stanford and implemented by the skilled personnel he hired, was a blueprint for producing fast trotters.
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Eadweard Muybridge's Horse Photos, Late 1870s
After an absence, photographer Eadweard Muybridge was back in Sacramento, California by 1877 to take more photos of Leland Stanford's famous trotter Occident.
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Eadweard Muybridge Photographs Running Horse,'73
In the 1870s some racehorse cognoscenti pondered whether at any time while running, horses have all hooves off the ground, an idea sometimes called unsupported transit.
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