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General Category => Harness Racing => Topic started by: Kirbys Ace on October 05, 2024, 09:51:36 PM
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Use to be the big race at Harrington for years with purse of over 200K and some of the best talent available at this time of year entering. Now the race is a 50K with no fan fare and fading away.
Shame.
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Closed to outsiders now and a lowered purse. Locals mad that much purse money was leaving the state. Used to have some big names show up. FOILED AGAIN, BETTERTHANCHEDDAR, AMERICAN HISTORY, BIT OF A LEGEND, and WON THE WEST have all won the Quillen in the past. FOILED AGAIN won a few times if I remember correctly.
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The last few years they had the race the purse was $150,000 and the year BetterthanCheddar won the race, Casie Coleman was actually there in person and in the winners circle, but you're right, the locals did complain, so a few years ago they changed it to (3) $50,000 purses, one for older males, one for aged mares, and one for aged trotters and entrees were based on earnings this year with a minimum of 3 starts at the current meet.
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It’s nice that the Delaware horsemen want to keep “their” money in Delaware but before slots they had no problem going to other states and racing for that states horsemen’s money. They became very provincial in their attitudes.
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When Luc Ouellette first came to Dover years ago and was winning tons of races, there was a movement started by Kathy Davis, wife of driver Eddie Davis to ban Canadian drivers. Of course that went nowhere. In recent years Ron Burke has run a few horses there, and about 8 to 10 years ago, Nick Surick had horses there for several years and was leading trainer one year. When presented his leading trainer award, he thanked management for allowing him to race there!
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When Luc Ouellette first came to Dover years ago and was winning tons of races there was a movement started by Kathy Davis, wife of driver Eddie Davis to ban Canadian drivers. Of course that went nowhere. In recent years Ron Burke has run a few horses there, and about 8 to 10 years ago, Nick Surick had horses there for several years and was leading trainer one year. When presented his leading trainer award, he thanked management for allowing him to race there!
She always was/is very vocal! Sometimes quite embarrassing
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The Dover and Harrington meets cater to the locally owned.
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The Dover and Harrington meets cater to the locally owned.
Dover welcomes all the out of town cheats in recent years. Not sure what you are talking about.
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Nick Surick had horses there for a few years around 2012-2014 and was leading trainer one year.
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Very few people in Delaware racing are from Delaware originally. They migrated to Delaware when slots came in 1996.
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Plenty of the current horsemen are from Delaware originally when they used to race for $500 purses at Georgetown Raceway, when the feature race purse at Dover and Harrington was only $2000. Some have migrated from the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Virginia and a few from New Jersey. When Illinois racing was failing, Tony Morgan was the first to come and a few years later Tetrick came along.
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Crissman-NY,Leblanc-PA,Hundertpfund-NJ,Josh Green-OHIO and the list goes on and onthey mostly stayed but TWTRIXK moved on...
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I'm not saying that nobody came from outside the area because obviously some did but there are plenty of horsemen who have been here their entire life. Bottom line is, if the purses are good, more trainers will come.
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Delaware owners also get 40%bonus on purses but that counts towards earnings. Maryland gives bonus money not counting towards horse's earnings
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It's difficult to make money in Maryland because there aren't that many race dates compared to Delaware plus the purses are much higher in Delaware. I know a few owner/trainers who lived just over the Delaware border in Maryland moved just over the Maryland border into Delaware so they could race as Delaware owned horses.
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Dover is about to open . Will be interesting if they cut the purses again. .
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Their purses have been pretty steady the last few years, with their high priced $40,000 to $50,000 claimers going for $20,000 and their weekly feature $27,500 and the Open going for $25,000. The track who continues to cut purses is Harrah's Philly. When they card a winners over which is rare, the purse is only $15,000.
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Delaware owners also get 40%bonus on purses but that counts towards earnings. Maryland gives bonus money not counting towards horse's earnings
I thought it was 20?
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Supposedly live in Delaware......fra ud written all over this
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One of them was Nick Callahan, always lived on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, then all of a sudden, his home address is listed as Greenwood, Delaware which is just across the Maryland/Delaware border.
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40%%
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They could have a field day if they really looked into the false addresses and beard owners! But that's a can they don't want to open! It would mean having to do some work and earn their high price salaries!
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Who........commis sion
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The Callahan and Milby families are related thru marriage, and the Milby's have always lived in Cordova, Maryland. the late N. Frank Milby owned top pacers like Miss Conna Adios and To Ri Boy.
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What does your post have to do with false addresses and beards
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Chalk it up as another Bob Hollywood Heyden history lesson!
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SO, Nick and Dolly do not live at the farm in Cordova?
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Nick and Dolly supposedly live in Greenwood, Delaware which is about 30 miles from Cordova.