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EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ – For the sixth time in the last seven years, all-source handle on the Hambletonian Day harness racing program at The Meadowlands topped $7 million, with the 2020 COVID-19 card the only one to fail to reach that plateau. Despite several downpours during the course of the day, a total of $7,427,223 […]
Undoubtedly, the harness racing trotting gait takes center stage on Hambletonian Day, with ten races for those Standardbreds who travel in a diagonal fashion. On tomorrow’s 16-race card there are also six races devoted to the pacing genre, featuring a total of $783,000 in purses. Overall and to no surprise, it is the stallion Captaintreacherous, […]
Let’s face it. The Meadowland’s Saturday line-up features a compilation of the best harness racing trotting events of the year. Ten of the 16 contests on the August 3 Big M card are for the trotting genre and will offer the public a glimpse at some of the finest diagonally gaited youngsters and aged horses […]
One of the biggest days of the year in American harness racing is this Saturday (Aug. 3) at the Meadowlands. The Big M is set to host a 16-dash card that is headlined by the $1,050,000 Hambletonian Finals. Other stakes like the Hambletonian Oaks, Cane Pace, and Lady Liberty are featured throughout the card. The […]
EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ – The Meadowlands has hosted many great events for almost a half-century, and this Saturday (Aug. 3) will be no exception, as an international television audience will see an extraordinary Hambletonian program, telecast along with the prestigious Whitney card from historic Saratoga Race Course live on FOX Sports (3-6 p.m.; locally on FOX […]
As some of you know, I, too, was a harness racing handicapper of sorts—not nearly in the class of Pandy or Gabe or Dave, Garnet or Gil, among others—but I held my own when I had that responsibility at Balmoral Park (way back when) and, more recently, at Pompano Park, where I was also responsible […]
