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Florida Trainer John Zimmerman Found Dead

Trainer John Charles Zimmerman died of a heart attack April 9 in his Aventura, Fla., home. He was 46.

 Sunday, April 09, 2006

Desert Boom Wears Claiming Crown Jewel

Robert Bone's Desert Boom, a grade III winner in his last start, broke on top and never looked back in capturing the $138,000 Claiming Crown Jewel, the central attraction of Saturday's annual series of races for Thoroughbred racing's blue collar workers at Canterbury Park.

 Saturday, July 16, 2005

Plenty of Fire in More Smoke's Lafayette Win

More Smoke popped the gate in a hurry from his inside post for jockey Clinton Potts and was never headed as he upset prohibitive favorite Razor and blazed to an eye-popping 14 1/2-length win in the $107,100 Lafayette (gr. III) for 3-year-old sprinters at Keeneland Sunday.

 Sunday, April 10, 2005

More Smoke Burns Foes; Friel's for Real Wins

More Smoke started the new year the way he ended the last one, winning this time against newly turned 3-year-olds in Saturday's $50,000 Dancing Count Stakes at Pimlico.

 Saturday, January 01, 2005

Smarty Victim Salty Punch Finally Has His Day

The last time Salty Punch saw Smarty Jones it was a very brief visit, about as long as it took for Smarty to blow by him shortly after the start of the Pennsylvania Nursery Stakes last November. Five defeats later, Salty finally has found the winner's circle again, winning the six-furlong Danzig Stakes at Penn National.

 Thursday, May 20, 2004