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Unusual Clarity (Ron Harp) captured the $7,500 featured fillies & mares’ pace at Vernon Downs on Friday (Nov. 7).

Prince Hal Hanover and Twisted Destiny, two Pennsylvania-sired sophomore colts who have been racing against Louprint and the very best of the state’s pacing “glamour division” since May, are still going strong in November, winning divisions of their Liberty Bell Stakes on Friday afternoon (Nov. 7) at Harrah’s Philadelphia on a chilly day with a strong stretch headwind.

After following cover for the better part of the mile, the greatly overlooked Swifty Lazar got up in the shadow of the wire at 30-1 to score his fourth win of the year in the $14,000 Trackmaster featured pace at Plainridge Park on Friday (Nov. 7) afternoon.

This week was an abbreviated one with only three Matron stakes on Thursday, (Nov. 6) at Bally’s Dover Downs.

The Illinois Senate on Oct. 30 passed legislation that would authorize a new Standardbred racetrack and casino in the Decatur area and remove the 35-mile veto ability of Hawthorne Race Course for a racetrack casino license available to various communities in Cook County.

The Standardbred Owners Association of New York (”SOANY”) and MGM Yonkers, Inc. (“MGM Yonkers”), owner and operator of Empire City Casino and Yonkers Raceway, today reaffirmed their shared commitment to the future of harness racing at one of the nation’s most historic tracks, Yonkers Raceway.

Michael Carter will take the reins as director of racing at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows pending customary regulatory approvals.

The prestigious French race for 4- and 5-year-olds, the Prix Marcel Laurent at Vincennes, was won easily Thursday afternoon (Nov. 6) by Liza Josselyn with Jean Michel Bazire in the sulky.

The first of six Thursday race cards this year at The Meadowlands featured four divisions of the first leg of the Exit 16W Pop Up Series for both trotters and pacers, and Herecomesdajudge and Dismas were two good-looking winners.