Trainer's Aiken Trials win comes in last race
Web-posted 3/13/2004
AIKEN - Transplanted Northerners and outsiders have long dominated the winter racing scene in Aiken.

Trials triumph
Web-posted 3/13/2004
James "Bo" Burns leaps off Cordon Rouge after finishing first in The City of Aiken Trophy race at the Aiken Track Trials. Pictured at bottom right is trainer Bruce Snipes.

Triple Crown signals horse revelry
Web-posted 3/7/2004
AIKEN - Horses and high times. Welcome to the month of March in Aiken, when three consecutive weekends of horse revelry known as the Triple Crown takes the city from partially horse-crazed to fully gone.

Bring 'hattitude' to races
Web-posted 3/7/2004
AIKEN - Before you're off to the Triple Crown events, ladies, don't forget your hat.

Triple Crown drops harness racing
Web-posted 3/7/2004
AIKEN - Organizers of the third leg of the Triple Crown have a message for spectators: polo is a rough-and-tumble, action-packed sport.

Local trainer hopes to make her mark
Web-posted 3/7/2004
AIKEN - As the horses thunder across the turf of Ford Conger Field during the Aiken Steeplechase, Mimie Percival will be watching with the anxious eye of a professional focused on her own horses as they gallop for the title and a share of the purse money.

Inexperienced horses race for bragging rights
Web-posted 3/7/2004
AIKEN - When her horse trots to the post at the Aiken Trials, the opening event of the Aiken Triple Crown, trainer Anne Mitchell will begin to get an idea of how the 3-year-old filly will react in the officially sanctioned races that will likely follow.

Triple Crown is vital to Aiken economy
Web-posted 3/7/2004
AIKEN - As horses race into town for the Aiken Triple Crown, so will dollars and spectators, bringing money into local stores, restaurants and hotels.

Triple Crown Terms
Web-posted 3/7/2004
Here are some race terms that fans can expect to hear during the three-week run of the Aiken Triple Crown.