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The Meadowlands' Championship Meet escalates quickly with several important stakes this weekend. Friday features the first leg of the New Jersey Sires Stakes (NJSS) for the sophomore set. The first of three eight horse $25,000 divisions for colts and geldings kicks off the card and will serve as the stage for the Meadowlands debut of the intriguing Trixton colt Cuatro De Julio. A homebred, owned by legendary French horseman Jean Pierre Dubois as D Farm, LLC, Cuatro De Julio comes from humble beginnings. He began his career on the dusty Kentucky fair circuit where local horseman Al Efferstein...

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 didn't make any starts at two, but the $270,000 yearling started on the path to justifying that price tag with a first-over g...

Article content Paul Fitzpatrick, broker of record at Home Group Realty Inc., has noticed a change in the types of buyers making inquiries at his Guelph, Ontario–based offices. A lot more of them are coming from the Toronto area, and many are interested in a very particular type of product: a newly built detached home. “Two years ago, they would not have considered moving this kind of distance from the GTA,” Fitzpatrick says, referring to the Greater Toronto Area. But now, with interest rates near record lows and work-from-home arrangements more available than ever before, something has...