Trainers should note
that the entire Saturday, December 26 card will be comprised of races that
usually populate the Friday cards, consisting primarily of trots and pacing
mare races.
The next week on
Saturday, January 2 the card will mirror the usual Saturday fare of overnight
pacing races.
Both weeks first post
will be at 6:35 p.m. and the program will be expanded to 15 races with eleven
horse fields drawn in several of those races. Any eleven horse field
will result in 3% of the purse being paid to the sixth place finisher.
Preference will be given
during this period to those horses that have made two starts at The Meadowlands
since the 2015 fall meet began on November 13.
"We arrived at
these decisions after discussions with the NJ SBOA yesterday and we very
much appreciate their cooperation in working with us to accomplish this
task," said Meadowlands GM & CEO Jason Settlemoir. "Our intent is
to inform the horsemen of what classes will race when so they can prepare
appropriately. We're trying to get as many horses raced as possible with so few
tracks operating through the holidays and it should prove to be good for the
horsemen and our business as well."
Post time will go back
to 7:00 p.m. when The Meadowlands returns to the normal Friday - Saturday
schedule on January 8 - 9.
