Former World Heavyweight Boxing and Olympic champion George Foreman came out a winner in his first effort

of the year. It was not in a square ring but on a harness racing oval. Major Duke, a well-bred four-year-old pacer that Foreman owns scored a convincing victory, a veritable knockout, at Dover Downs in Dover, Delaware in the rain on Wednesday, January 7.

Conditioned by George Teague, one of the sport's most successful trainers, Major Duke led from the start to finish to win an $11,500 4&5-Year-Old pace in the winning time of 1:56 for the mile distance.

So far during the current 2008-09 Dover Downs season, Major Duke has one win, a second, two thirds and two fifths in his six races. Now in his third year of racing, the pacer has won $65,477 in purses.

Foreman is one of several well-known athletes to have horses in the George Teague Stable. Teague is the standardbred sport's leading and most successful Afro-American trainer. Over the last few seasons, Teague has also trained young horses for Atlanta Falcon's linebacker, Demorrio Williams, and former New York Jets receiver, Wayne Chrebet.

(Dover Downs)