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| | Augusta Georgia: sports@ugusta: Cane Pace to leave Yonkers after 43 years 8/19/97 |
 | | YONKERS, N.Y. (AP) - The Cane Pace, opening leg of the Triple Crown for 3-year-old pacing colts, will be looking for a new track after Friday night's 43rd annual race is staged at Yonkers Raceway, the only home for the classic. |
 | | ``With regret, this will be the last Cane Pace at our track,'' Robert Galterio, general manager of the raceway, said Tuesday at a press conference. |
 | | In 19 races this year, Western Dreamer, sired by Western Hanover, the 1992 Cane winner, has earned $567,510 and went wire-to-wire in 1:54 1-5 in last week's first elimination heat. |
| www.augustachronicle.com /stories/082097/spo_canepace.html (322 words) |
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