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Dave Miller and Dexter Dunn have both been on a roll of late, so it came as a surprise to no one when the dynamic driving duo had the hot hands on the Friday, Feb. 23 card at The Meadowlands.

When you’re one of the top harness racing tracks on the planet, you figure to have your share of good things happen during the course of 12 months.

It wasn’t the North America Cup, Hambletonian or Kentucky Futurity, but Scott Zeron proved on Friday night at The Meadowlands that it doesn’t necessarily take a major stakes event to find him in the winner’s circle, as the 34-year-old, known as “The Money Man,” guided five winners on the card.

Live video is available for the star-studded 2023 Hambletonian Day card of harness racing set to take place on Saturday, August 5 at The Meadowlands in East Rutherford, N.J.

3-year-old filly trotter Walner Payton will aim to score a touchdown of her own this Saturday in the $500,000 Hambletonian Oaks.

The Nancy Takter barn has been on a roll all year long at The Meadowlands, with 25 winners from just 69 starters coming into the weekend, and that outfit stayed hot on Friday night (July 14), winning four of the 12 leg one $30,000 divisions of the New Jersey Sire Stakes for two-year-olds.

"I pinch myself a little bit. It's really an honour to be honest and I've just been lucky. I've driven some amazing horses over the time since I've been here and I've just got to try to keep that rolling now."

Freshmen Standardbreds of each gait and sex competed in their final Grand Circuit contest of the season with the Fall Final Four — composed of the Goldsmith Maid, Valley Victory, Three Diamonds and Governor's Cup — on Saturday night (Nov. 26) at The Meadowlands.

It was three weeks ago on Hambletonian Day that Instagram Model came from off the pace to take the $355,000 Jim Doherty Memorial in a lifetime-best 1:53, so it came as no surprise when the daughter of Chapter Seven-Check Out Trixie won a $20,000 division of the Kindergarten Series for two-year-old trotting fillies at The Meadowlands Thursday night (Sept. 1) as the mile oval kicked off an eight-card September “mini meet”.