East Rutherford, NJ --- Muscle Hill, the early favorite for the $1.5 million Hambletonian, won his 2009 debut under wraps on Thursday night (June 4) at the Meadowlands.
The defending divisional champion trotted to a career best 1:53.1 in the first of two $54,900 New Jersey Sire Stakes divisions for 3-year-old colts. Driven by Brian Sears, Muscle Hill ($2.40, $2.20, $2.10) tucked in fourth around the first turn and strode up to take command from The Chancellor with three-eighths of a mile to go. He opened up as The Chancellor ($7.20, $4.80) gave chase and powered away to a 3-3/4 length tally in his 2009 debut. Howthehaloareyou ($8.60) was a distant third. READ MORE...

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Chesapeake City, MD --- Badlands Hanover, sire of millionaire World Champion Badlands Nitro, and 2008 3-year-old Pacing Filly of the Year Tug River Princess, will have his book close today for the 2009 season. READ MORE...

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Chesapeake City, MD --- Angus Hall, the number one sire in the Ontario Sire Stakes program in 2008, is booked full and closed for the 2009 breeding season. Angus Hall, out of the Hall of Fame mare Amour Angus, as well as the full brother to both Andover Hall and Conway Hall, was the second leading money winning trotting sire in North America for 2008. READ MORE...

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Anderson, IN -- Driver Corey Callahan made his first trip to Indiana a memorable one, winning Indiana's richest harness race with Mr Wiggles in the $500,000 Hoosier Cup at Hoosier Park Racing and Casino Saturday (May 30) in 1:52.1. READ MORE...

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April 8, 2009—On April 7, 2009 the Delaware House Gambling and Parimutuels Committee met and deliberated on House Bill 100. The committee had received House Substitute 1 for House Bill 100 the evening before which took away the prospect of three extra casinos and 10 sports betting parlors, only adding sports betting to the three existing racinos. In this bill the state will receive eight percent more of the video lottery revenue, taking one percent away from the horseracing purses, and no money from sports betting will go towards horseracing. The racinos say that with the increased taxes and fees, there is the possibility that they will be out of business within the next few years.
After a brief private meeting, the House Gambling and Parimutuels Committee voted 5 to 4 to move it out of committee only with a promise from Swartzkopf that the bill would not be brought before the full House Tuesday afternoon. If you oppose this bill please contact your local representative (link for Delaware Representatives’ contact information provided below).

House Substitute 1 House Bill 100
Contact Information for Delaware Representatives

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On March 26th, 2009 Delaware House Bill 100 was presented to the Delaware Gaming and Parimutuel Committee. On this date public hearing were organized for March 30th at the Christiana Fire Hall (6pm), April 1st at Legislative Hall in Dover (6pm) and Delaware Tech in Georgetown (6pm). These public hearings are for the public to voice their opinions on House Bill 100 which will legalize sports betting in 10 locations and to legalize three more sites for casinos to open. READ MORE...

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On March 18th, 2009 Maryland House Bill 1212 went before the Maryland House Ways and Means Committee which proposed to change the percentage of money given to breeders for both thoroughbreds and standardbreds... READ MORE...

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Toronto, ON – At its meeting on March 25, 2009, the Governing Board of the Ontario Racing Commission (ORC) approved the $26.2 million budget for the 2009 Standardbred Horse Improvement Program. This approval provides for increased purses for the 2009 Ontario Sires Stakes Program (OSS), future enhancements to the rewards program for Ontario Bred racehorses, and the establishment of 2011 Ontario Sired awards payable to breeders of successful racehorses competing in the OSS. Read more...

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DOVER, Del--- The 2009 Delaware Standardbred Breeders Fund (DSBF) Three-Year-Old preliminaries got underway at Dover Downs with the pacing divisions dominated by Badlands Hanover sons and daughters as well as CR Commando trotting breds.

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DOVER, Del--- Arguably the finest group of Delaware sired three-year-old male pacers led off the first of two $20,000 Delaware Standardbred Breeders Fund (DSBF) preliminary legs on Monday, March 23.

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DOVER, Del--- The Delaware Standardbred Breeders Fund (DSBF) Three-Year-Old Fill Pace preliminaries got underway with daughters of Powerful Toy and Badlands Hanover - Tom's Toy and Little Bit Tricky - winning $20,000 divisions on Sunday, March 22 at Dover Downs.

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Columbus, OH --- Melvin "Wayne" Givens and Niel Gargiulo put up $30,000 to claim Winbak Speed from a race at Dover Downs one year ago. As it turned out, they bought themselves an accomplished pacer, who returned their investment many times over -- and swept the Presidential Pacing Series during January at the Meadowlands...

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East Rutherford, NJ --- Winbak Speed completed a series sweep as he rolled to his fourth straight win in the $125,000 Presidential Series Final on Saturday night (Jan. 24) at the Meadowlands....

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East Rutherford, NJ --- Just a year ago, Winbak Speed was racing against $30,000 claimers at Dover Downs. On Saturday night, he will take on a trio of millionaires in the first major stakes of the season for Free For All pacers, the Presidential Series at the Meadowlands. The three-week Presidential Series culminates in a $125,000 final on Saturday, Jan. 24...

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Owners John Celii and George Teague announced today that they have agreed to a Stallion Management Agreement with Winbak Farm to stand World Champion Millionaire Badlands Nitro at Winbak Farm of New York. READ THE PRESS RELEASE...

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The Delaware Standardbred Breeders Fund (DSBF) freshman division moves to Dover Down in November with the First State-sired colts and fillies setting sights on the four $100,000 finals.
The DSBF stakes begin with two preliminary rounds on Nov. 22 featuring the filly trot and paces. On Nov. 23, the colt and gelding divisions swing into action. Nov. 29 and 30 are set for second round legs with the top eight finishers in each division returning on Sunday, Dec. 7 for $100,000 filly finals and the colt and geldings on Monday, Dec. 8 READ MORE...

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Winbak Farm has announced that for the 2009 breeding season they will be moving three stallions to Hickory Ridge Farm, owned by Dr. Larry Smith, in Berne, Indiana. Pacing millionaires Island Fantasy and Three Olives, along with trotting sire Holy Guacamolie, who is the fastest son of Conway Hall will be making the move to Indiana. READ MORE...

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The 2008 Delaware Standardbred Breeders Fund (DSBF) stakes for two-year-old colts and fillies got underway on Sunday, Oct. 5 and was another showcase for trotter CR Commando at Harrington Raceway on Sunday, Oct. 5. Badlands Hanover and Powerful Toy, continued the Winbak Farm of Delaware stallions supremacy as the Delaware-sired fillies took over on Tuesday, Oct. 7.  All five events for freshman trotters and the three distaff paces were kickoff events for the first of two weeks of preliminaries before $100,000 finals. READ MORE...

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Three of the five top yearlings at the Canadian Open Yearling Sale were sired by prominent trotting stallion Angus Hall, who stands at Winbak Farm of Canada. Particularly, fillies by Angus Hall were popular among bidders.
Threatening weather conditions held off and provided excellent sale conditions before a packed house at the recently remodeled SC Sales Pavilion at Flamboro Downs. READ MORE...

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