EEast Rutherford, NJ – Live harness racing
returns to The Meadowlands on Friday, November 13 with eliminations and
preliminary events for several important stakes on the menu.
The $1.2 million TVG finals for the older
horses are scheduled for next weekend, so preliminary TVG open events for those
horses are on the opening weekend card.
The $25,000 mare opens each drew fields of
six with names like Bee A Magician, Shake It Cerry, Classic Martine heading up
the trot and point leader Venus Delight and Sandbetweenurtoes in the pace. The
$200,000g TVG finals for mares will be raced on Friday, November 20.
Six pacing horses were entered in that
division, among them JK Endofandera who currently resides at the top of that
list, Doo Wop Hanover, Mach It So and new shooter Arthur Blue Chip.
Seven trotters declared with
Obrigado, Melady’s Monet, Master Of Law, Natural Herbie, Resolve and DW’s NY
Yank to be joined by EL Titan who is making his first start in the series. Each
of these opens carry a purse of $50,000 and the $400,000g TVG Open finals are
scheduled for Saturday, November 21.
Eliminations for the $1.5
million Fall Final Four freshman stakes are also set for opening weekend.
The Three Diamonds drew eight pacing
fillies thus needing no elimination and going right through to the $385,250e
November 20 final. The eight declared are; Blue Moon Stride, Call Me Queen, I
Said Please, JK Fannie, Penpal, Shezarealdeal, Skinny Dipper and Yankee
Moonshine.
The Goldsmith Maid filly declarations
numbered eleven. A bye was accepted by the connections of Kathy Parker and the
remaining ten will race to eliminate one and join her in the $409,950e November
20 final.
The Governor’s Cup box contained sixteen,
which split neatly into a pair of eight colt pacer eliminations on Saturday
night. The top five from each will return, with elim winners drawing from posts
1 through six, for the final on $413,000e Saturday, November 21.
Nineteen trotting colts entered for the
Valley Victory so the eliminations this Saturday will be a ten and a nine with
the same result as the pacers determining which colts will compete in
the $489,400e final next Saturday.
Find the complete fields once the races
have been drawn and further information on all things Meadowlands by visiting
the track website.
Post time for the Fall Meet at The
Meadowlands will be 7:00pm.
