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Trainer Andy Rickert notched career win No. 1,000 Tuesday (Jan. 26) at MGM Northfield Park when Keystone Chester scored in the sixth race with Ryan Stahl aboard. Rickert, whose first training win came in the year 2000, grew up in a harness racing family. Younger brother Kris is a trainer, as is their father, Hoye, who, along with his wife, Pauline, has owned scores of Standardbreds over the years. The family farm in Fredonia, Pa., boasts a beautiful half-mile track where the younger Rickerts cut their teeth. Andy Rickert’s horses have won nearly $8 million in purses. Still, it wasn’t a slam dunk that he would choose harness racing as a career. He earned a biology degree at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania and toyed with the idea of becoming a veterinarian. ....