The W.N. Reynolds
Memorial Stake, Landmark Stakes and Tompkins-Geers Stakes will all transition
to early-closing events beginning with the 2-year-old crop of 2017.
No yearling payments
will be taken on these three races in 2016.
Beginning in 2017,
payments in the year of the race will be accepted for these events, all
with eight races for two and three-year-olds of each gender.
All three events will
remain important stops on the traditional Grand Circuit calendar.
The Landmark, which is
owned by Historic Track, will remain at that traditional half-mile track in
Goshen, New York.
The Tompkins-Geers and
Reynolds will be raced at Tioga Downs and the Meadowlands Racetrack. Specific dates and venues will be announced
in the year of the races.
For more information, or
if you have any questions, please contact Callie Davies-Gooch, Stakes
Manager at the Hambletonian Society, which administers these and many of
harness racing’s premier events.
