Stay updated with breaking news from Vernon Downs. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
A single $20,000 elimination was necessary for both the Peter Haughton Memorial for two-year-old trotting colts and geldings and the Jim Doherty Memorial for freshman trotting fillies at The Meadowlands on Friday night (July 29), with one result predictable and the other not so much.
Driver Brian Sears and trainer Marcus Melander combined for four wins including two New York Sire Stakes (NYSS) races as Vernon Downs played host to New York Sire Stakes action for two-year-old trotting colts & geldings on Friday afternoon (July 22).
Max Contract entered Saturday’s (July 16) $150,000 Mistletoe Shalee at The Meadowlands with the least experience. But, despite making only her fifth start, the daughter of Huntsville flashed an incredible turn of speed in the homestretch and devoured pacesetter Boudoir Hanover on the line to capture the event for three-year-old pacing fillies in a stakes record-equaling 1:48.3.
Tioga Downs Casino Hotel President and CEO Jeff Gural was recently nominated by President Joseph Biden to serve as chair of a federal board.
President and CEO of Vernon Downs Casino Hotel and Tioga Downs Casino Resort, Jeff Gural, has been tapped by President Joe Biden for a post in his administration.