On what was another difficult
evening weather-wise with the wind blowing a gale throughout, The Meadowlands
Saturday night card provided excitement, opportunity and value.
The excitement was provided by Easy Again who won the $30,000 Free
For All feature by leading all the way in 1:51.1. Sent out hard from the
outside post six after a pair of scratches by Yannick Gingras, Easy Again got
to the opening quarter in 27.4 and decided to duplicate those fractions for
each quarter thereafter, including ripping home in 27.4 into the teeth of a
fierce wind.
Trained by Ron Burke for Burke Racing, Weaver Bruscemi and
Panhellenic Stable who bought the Dragon Again horse for $100,000 at
Harrisburg. Easy Again has always been a high speed horse but plagued by issues
throughout his career. He certainly looks poised to be a force on the east
coast this summer.
So far as opportunity and value, the nightly Pick 5 got the ball
rolling with a payoff of $5,076, the early Pick 4 returned $1,341 and the late
Pick 4 a whopping $23,854 (all $1 increments).
Panesthetic and Dave Miller made it back to back impressive wins,
making a double jump in class, but going wire to wire again, winning the
$16,000 B-1 Pace in 1:52.2 for trainer Andrew Harris. Panesthetic is
owned by Arlene Shaw, Alice Bonenfant and P. Shaw.
In addition, Dinner At The Met will head into Saturday’s Buddy
Gilmour Pacing Series a perfect three for three following his 1:54.3 romp in
the nightcap, a non-winners of two pacing event. The three year old son
of Metropolitan is trained by Erv Miller, who co-owns the gelding with Bert
Hochsurung and has been guided to victory in all three of his starts by Marcus
Miller.
Despite the snow and extreme winds, it was another $3 Million
night in East Rutherford, New Jersey as total handle checked in at $3,064,833.
Racing returns Thursday, for the first round of the Charles Singer
Memorial Trotting Series with post time at 7:15 P.M. That program is the
identical program from February 13th that was forced to cancel due
to a winter storm. That entire 10-race program has been carried over to
this coming Thursday.
