JAMES CITY COUNTY — Ben Hipple, a 16-year-old dually enrolled at Warhill High School in James City County and New Horizons Butler Farms campus in Hampton…
Special Way was the Breeders Crown champion and voted the two-year-old trotting filly of the year in 2022, and she’s undefeated in three starts this year. And yet there is still a question if Special Way is even the best filly – in Åke Svanstedt’s barn.
Kyuquot, buried along the inside much of the way in the $40,000 Bobby Weiss Series Championship for three-year-old males Saturday afternoon at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono, was angled to the far outside the first part of the stretch by driver Tyler Buter, then got up on the line for a 70-1 upset in 1:52.2, while heavy favourite One Eight Hundred was trapped behind a horse and got shuffled out of contention.
One Eight Hundred was sent right to the lead and took the field to the quarter in :26.1; when parked challenger Straight Talk argued hard for the lead, One Eight Hundred elected to sit the pocket as Straight Talk went on to command and passed the half in :54.3. Trevors Ace went first-over to press the leader and then seized the lead at the 1:23 three-quarters, with the chalk stuck behind the faltering pacesetter. In the stretch it looked like Trevors Ace was going to take the big money, but Buter had his Sportswriter gelding in top gear the last sixteenth and posted a nose dec
Shorty’s Diner taking over former Metro Diner space near Willow Lawn
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Shorty’s Diner plans to open a new location in mid-February at 5625 W. Broad St., a space formerly occupied by Metro Diner. (
Jack Jacobs photo)
A diner that got its start near Virginia’s colonial-era capital is pulling up a chair closer to the state’s modern-day capital.
Shorty’s Diner plans to open a new location in mid-February at 5625 W. Broad St., a space formerly occupied by Metro Diner in the Libbie Place shopping center near Willow Lawn. It will be the restaurant’s second location, coming about 10 years after the first location opened just outside Williamsburg.