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The $100,000 Delaware Standardbred Breeders' Fund (DSBF) final for three-year-old trotting males is shaping as a likely showdown between Blue Devil and Rhett as both geldings completed sweeps of their preliminary divisions on Tuesday (Dec. 7) at Dover Downs.
Nanticoke Racing's LGs Reed O Wen ($2.80, Jim Morand) won his second straight race in 2:02.1 on Wednesday (Sept. 15) at Harrington Raceway in preparation for upcoming two-year-old Delaware Standardbred Breeders Fund (DSBF) trotting stakes action.
The richest card of the season welcomed fair goers Thursday night at the annual Governor’s Day program at Harrington Raceway during the Delaware State Fair. Approximately $600,000 in purse money was at stake on the card, most of it in four $100,000 Delaware Standardbred Breeders Finals for three-year-olds. Long standing races for older horses were also contested such as the $50,000 Governor’s Cup, $35,000 Legislator’s Cup (In Memory of Thurman Adams, Jr.), $35,000 Charles Murphy, Jr. Memorial Trot and $25,000 President’s Cup. Memorial races were also held in memory of Walter Messick, ...
Several years ago, Chris Coyle was raising a young female trotter for Sarah and John Swart Jr. at his Olive Branch Farm. Coyle told them more than once they had a nice-looking filly and he had high hopes for her. John, who turned 96 in May, used to own Windswept Farm in Virginia, not far from where the couple resides across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., and “Windswept” is frequently included in the names of the couple’s horses. The nice-looking filly was christened Pride Of Windswept. It turned out to be an inspired choice. Pride Of Windswept, now three, has won 13 of 15 care...
When Eric Foster’s teenage daughter Emmy christened one of the family’s homebred filly trotters Emmys Mayflower, Foster was not a fan of the name. “I told her I wish she named her something besides that,” Foster said with a laugh. “I didn’t think that was a very good racehorse name, a winning name. I said, that’s not going to be a good horse. “She said, you just wait and see.” Emmys Mayflower, by Anders Bluestone out of Stirling Charisma, was born May 1, 2017. Emmy Foster’s 15th birthday was a day later. And in the ensuing time, the filly has rewarded Emmy’s convictions,...