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Friday, April 15, 2016

Saturday Night at The Meadowlands

East Rutherford, NJ – On Saturday night The Meadowlands presents a dozen live races with the focus on the featured seventh race, a conditioned pace for a purse of $17,000.

The entrants in this contest are a diverse group with a pair of defectors from the Levy series getting the nod from the morning line maker as prospective favorites.

Always At My Place (post two) dropped out of the Levy after two lackluster performances. He’s a talented Indiana bred who looked like the next big thing for the same connections that owned the great Sweet Lou when he put together a couple of dominant performances against good horses at Pocono late last summer. After a successful return to Hoosier in the fall, trainer Ron Burke put Always At My Place away for the winter in anticipation of the 2016 stakes season.

Owners Burke Racing, Weaver Bruscemi, Larry Karr and Phil Collura will give Always At My Place the chance to be the best he can be, perhaps the mile track and the services of Hall of Fame driver Dave Miller will be the catalyst to success on Saturday.

The accomplished Michael’s Power is the other Levy defector and there is no questioning the depth of his résumé. He won the 2012 Little Brown Jug against a very good crop on his way to a $1.4 million season at three. Now seven years old, with career earnings in excess of $1.8 million, Michael’s Power has raced at The Meadowlands only a handful of times and has never won there. He is a homebred racing for the interests of Jeffrey and Michael Snyder, trained now by Mark Silva and driven by Corey Callahan.

For those interested in playing the horses, all horizontal wager guarantees remain at the expected level and the last race Jackpot Super Hi-5 carryover stands at $174,174 entering the weekend. Past performance for the Late Pick 4 are just a click of the mouse away for each night’s card, courtesy of Trackmaster.

Registration is now open for the "Championship Meet Survivor Challenge". Top prize is $2,000 and a seat in the 2017 World Harness Handicapping Challenge. Contest entry is free.

The possibility of winning a trip to the Kentucky Derby continues with entry accepted via a form in the program or on social media through April 23.



Post time is 7:15 p.m.