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Hastings Season Completed

The weatherman cut us some slack. There was sunshine, the track dried out to a large extent and people showed up to close it down for another year. Four stakes races buttressed the card with a Marathon Series finale at a mile-and-a-half thrown in to provide some variety. Hopefully a good time was had by […]
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A Sparkling Weekend for Daz Lin Dawn in Emerald Downs Handicap

It seems appropriate that a jewel like Daz Lin Dawn ($2.20) would win the Emerald Downs Handicap at Hastings Racecourse, something she did by seven lengths when jockey Richard Hamel turned her loose after being last of four and wide around the first turn and for a good part of the jaunt down the backstretch. […]