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Pretender and Fashion Schooner were the winners in the first edition $275,000 finals of the New Jersey Classic for “A” level New Jersey-sired trotters on Friday night (Sept. 9) at The Meadowlands.

Bella Bellini and driver Dexter Dunn rallied in the stretch to overtake When Dovescry and win Saturday’s (July 2) $131,250 Six Pack Mares Open Trot by one length in a career-best 1:50.1 at The Meadowlands. 

On a perfect Memorial Day Weekend Saturday night (May 28) that featured great weather and great racing, wagering went past the $3-million mark at The Meadowlands for the 12th time in 2022 from 39 total racing programs.

In the first leg of the Miss Versatility Series on a rain-soaked Friday night at The Meadowlands, the first $30,000 division went as expected while the other did not.

Trainers always say that a horse’s four-year-old season is one of transition, and that when they turn five, that’s the year the good ones really blossom.

Jim Campbell will send two Breeders Crown champions and one Breeders Crown runner-up into action Saturday night (May 1) at The Meadowlands. Sandbetweenmytoes, who recorded the biggest upset in Breeders Crown history when he captured last year’s final for three-year-old male pacers at odds of nearly 204-1, is among 16 horses entered in the first round of the Graduate Series for four-year-old pacers. The group was divided into two eight-horse divisions, with Sandbetweenmytoes in the second. The...

Ontario-sired pacing colt Tall Dark Stranger was named the 2020 U.S. Horse of the Year as part of the Dan Patch Annual Awards Banquet held virtually on Saturday (Jan. 16). The United States Harness Writers Association (USHWA), the leading media organization in North American harness racing, has announced the winners of its Dan Patch Awards balloting for excellence exhibited among both equines and humans. The “best of the best” are normally honoured at the writers’ Dan Patch Annual Awards ...