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Tom Merton

So Diva brushes in backstretch to victory

By Harnesslink · 8 July 2023

So Diva (So Surreal) and harness racing driver Tom Merton won the $10,500 featured Fillies & Mares Open 2 Handicap Pace at Tioga Downs on Friday (July 7). Elegant Noelle (Aaron Byron) led to the quarter in :26.0. She used a :29.0 second quarter to be first to the half in :55.0. So Diva ($4.80) made her […]

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Retiring racehorses went out winners

By Harnesslink · 14 January 2023

Soon after New Jersey-based trainer Bruce Lauer moved his harness racing stable to New York’s Vernon Downs for the summer of 2021, he found himself looking for horses to add to his group. He bought a 13-year-old named Peter Pumpkineater (Camluck-Disney Dawn) with the intention of racing the pacer for the remainder of the meet […]

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