10 different drivers won a race last Saturday,
February 28
EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ (March
3, 2015) – The names have changed
from O’Donnell, Manzi, and Lachance to Gingras, Tetrick, and Miller, but one
thing remains the same going back to the early days of the Big M – the driving
colony at the Meadowlands is still the most competitive in harness racing.
That fact was on full display
again this past Saturday night when ten different drivers won on the 13-race
program that included three stakes finals and two opening leg divisions of the
Buddy Gilmour Series.
The winning names of
Callahan, Campbell, Gingras, McCarthy, Pierce, Andy Miller, Brett Miller, David
Miller, Zeron, and Teague reads like a ‘who’s who’ of the sport’s leaders. That
list doesn’t even include Tim Tetrick, a fixture near the top of the
Meadowlands standings, who has been absent the past two weeks while
representing Team USA at the World Driving Championships in Australia.
“The Meadowlands is, and
always has been, the toughest place to win races,” said Corey Callahan, North
America’s leading money-winning driver so far in 2015. “It's the equivalent of
"the big leagues" in baseball. Every driver there has been a dominant
force in their respective areas of the country and they've migrated to the
Meadowlands to compete against the best North America has to offer.”
Four of the top five leading money-winning
drivers of 2014 are Meadowlands regulars, including Gingras, who led North
America in earnings with $17,295,456.
“Anytime you win a race at
the Meadowlands you know you have done something right,” said Gingras. “In any
10-horse field everybody gets quality a driver.”
Gingras is one of four
drivers in just the past 12 racing programs to have won at least four races on
a single card.
Further depth in the
Meadowlands driver colony comes courtesy of newcomer Brett Miller, second in
the standings in just his first full season competing at the Big M, and
breakout star Jim Marohn, Jr, a perennial leading driver at Tioga Downs and
Monticello, who is 10th in the Big M standings.
