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The second leg of the Graduate Series for our-year-olds of each gait will be contested Friday night, June 14 at The Meadowlands, and despite the lack of a fireworks show (that comes on July 6), there will be plenty of firepower getting behind the starter car.

This Saturday, May 18 will mark the first time this year that stakes racing from The Meadowlands will be shown to a national television audience as FOX Sports will broadcast live The Big M's first major event of the season, the $145,150 USD Arthur J. Cutler Memorial for open trotters.

Things are starting to heat up at The Meadowlands, and what better way to kick off the 14-week Championship Meet this weekend than with the top simulcast event in all of horse racing serving as a prelude to the beginning of the harness stakes season with the opening leg of New Jersey Sire Stakes action on Saturday, May 4.

Meadowlands Racetrack management is never afraid to make changes when they think they’re warranted. With the 20-cent Pick-8 not quite creating the level of expected excitement since its inception seven months ago, The Big M has decided to discontinue the wager while adding a second 20-cent Pick-5 to its popular low-takeout laundry list of multi-leg puzzles.

Racing Secretary Jason Bluhm has a problem, but as he says, “it’s a good one to have.” The 42-year-old lifelong harness racing enthusiast has taken over the helm at both of Ohio’s southwestern harness tracks, with terrific results. This past December, Dayton Raceway’s handle scored a single night record of $1.286 million on Dec. 28, and

It was September of 1976 when The Meadowlands opened, and it was then that the sport of harness racing changed forever.

The 2023 Horse of the Year will be announced Sunday night, Feb. 25, at the annual U.S. Harness Writers Association’s (USHWA) Dan Patch Awards dinner, presented by Caesars Entertainment, at Rosen Centre in Orlando, Fla. But even if you aren’t among the attendees, you will be able to watch the harness racing announcement live via

The 2023 U.S. Horse of the Year will be announced on Sunday, Feb. 25 at the annual United States Harness Writers Association’s (USHWA) Dan Patch Awards dinner, presented by Caesars Entertainment, at Rosen Centre in Orlando, Florida. But even if you aren’t among the attendees, you will be able to watch the announcement live.

The extraordinary has now become commonplace at The Meadowlands, as once again, Saturday night business last week at The Big M was over the top, leaving no reason to believe that the string of super Saturdays won’t continue this weekend, when racing is conducted on the usual Friday-Saturday (Feb. 16-17) schedule with a first-race post time of 6:20 p.m.

The Meadowlands is always the place to play because of the many action options offered at the multi-faceted facility that offers sports betting, horse race simulcasting and, of course, live world-class harness racing.