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Tag: MARCUS MELANDER

MELANDER’S HEAVENLY FILLY

By Ken Weingartner, USTA — It took several days for Marcus Melander to fully appreciate Heaven Hanover’s win in the Hambletonian Oaks two weeks ago,

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MELANDER FUTURITY READY

By Ken Weingartner, USTA Media Marcus Melander will send out the morning-line favorites in both the $430,000 Kentucky Futurity for 3-year-old trotters and $276,000 Kentucky

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HAMBO, OAKS ELIMINATIONS

By Ken Weingartner, for Hambletonian Society — Joviality S, who earlier this month became the first female to beat the boys in the Yonkers Trot

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YONKERS, NY-NY TROT NEWS

By Ken Weingartner, USTA Media –If either of last week’s MGM Yonkers Trot elimination winners, the filly Joviality S or the colt Justice, is going

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EMPEROR, GIMPANZEE WIN

By Ken Weingartner — Hurrikane Emperor provided an upset in the $250,000 Graduate Series final for 4-year-old pacers while 1-5 favorite Gimpanzee took care of

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GIMPANZEE ‘GRADUATES’?

By Ken Weingartner Gimpanzee was in the shadow of stablemate Greenshoe much of last season, with the latter being named the sport’s best 3-year-old male trotter as

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WILL B CROWN CHAMPS WIN?

All four 3-year-old Breeders Crown champions — Dancin Lou, Gimpanzee, Warrawee Ubeaut, and Winndevie — return to action for the first time since their Crown

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TROTTING TRIPLE CROWN

By Ken Weingartner — Greenshoe, Gimpanzee, and Green Manalishi S see plenty of each other on a regular basis but have not seen much of

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OVERCOMING OUTSIDE POSTS

By Ken Weingartner After watching his two Hambletonian Oaks finalists on Tuesday draw posts eight and nine in the $500,000 event’s 10-horse field, trainer Lucas

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HAMBLETONIAN FIELDS + ODDS

By Ken Weingartner East Rutherford, NJ, July 31, 2019—Sixteen 3-year-old trotters entered Saturday’s 94th Hambletonian Stakes at The Meadowlands, requiring two eight-horse eliminations to reduce

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