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Tim Tetrick was on his game Saturday night (May 8) at The Meadowlands, as the 39-year-old Hall of Fame driver won both $30,000 divisions of the first leg of the Miss Versatility Series for open mares on the trot. Off a superb seasonal debut where she closed in :26.4 to just miss, Next Level Stuff was predictably sent to the gate as the 3-5 public choice in division one, and while she did not disappoint, she needed every inch of the stretch to record a neck victory in 1:52.2. “She raced agains...

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...

A number of high-profile Standardbreds made solid strides toward a return to the races during the Saturday (April 24) session of qualifiers at The Meadowlands. Calle Palema (Ake Svanstedt) was a wire-to-wire winner in 1:56.1 over 2020 freshman standouts Zenith Stride (Brian Sears) and In Range (Tim Tetrick). The gelded son of Muscle Hill - Fillyanthropy, a three-time winner as a rookie, took a new lifetime mark for owner Bender Sweden Inc. of Vero Beach, Fl. Balenciaga didnt make any starts at ...

The Meadowlands will again host some of the sport’s top prospects, but this time with an expanded roster of stakes talent hitting the track. A 16-qualifier session on Saturday morning (April 24) begins with three-year-old trotting fillies, with $400,000 yearling and full-sister to The Ice Dutchess, The Ice Countess ($2,500, 1:56.3M), going to post. Todd McCarthy will steer the Tony Alagna trainee as she makes just the fourth start of her career. She’ll be followed in the next qualifier by s...

It’s not very often, if not unprecedented, that a track’s “Late Double” in Tuesday morning qualifiers is won by a pair of Breeders Crown champions, much less Crown champion stablemates, but such was the case with four-year-olds Sandbetweenmytoes and Next Level Stuff for trainer Jim Campbell at Harrah’s Philadelphia. The Somebeachsomewhere - Galleria gelding Sandbetweenmytoes, last seen at the pari-mutuels beating U.S. Horse of the Year Tall Dark Stranger while paying $409.80 to win in...