The
countdown is on for entries to the $5.8 million Breeders Crown Events, to be
raced Friday, Oct. 28 and Saturday, Oct. 29 at Meadowlands Racetrack, East
Rutherford, NJ.
Supplemental
entries for 3-year-old and open events are due and payable by 12:00 noon,
Monday, Oct. 17, in the race office [1-877-782-2537] at the Meadowlands
Racetrack. There are no supplements for the two-year-old races.
Foreign
invitees to the Crown Trot must also declare by noon on Monday, Oct. 17.
Regular
entries for all other horses kept eligible by the required sustaining payments
in 2016 are due Tuesday, Oct. 18, by 9:00 a.m. at the Meadowlands race office.
Supplemental
declaration amounts are listed below. Click here for more instructions on
supplementing: http://www.hambletonian.org/resources/AllSupps.pdf
|
Gtd. Purse
|
Event
|
Supplement
|
|
$500,000
|
3-Year-Old
Events
|
$62,500
|
|
$500,000
|
Open
Trot
|
$62,500
|
|
$400,000
|
Open
Pace
|
$50,000
|
|
$250,000
|
Mare
Pace
|
$31,250
|
|
$250,000
|
Mare
Trot
|
$31,250
|
The
starting fee is included in the supplemental amount. A minimum of half the
amount of the supplemental fee, minus the starting fee, will be added to the
purse. This one-time supplemental payment makes a horse eligible to all
subsequent years’ Breeders Crown events under the normal schedule of payments.
Eliminations,
if needed, will occur on Friday, Oct. 21 and Saturday, Oct. 22, both nights
starting at the regular post time of 7:15 p.m.
Two-year-old
elimination races, if necessary, will be raced for a minimum purse of $20,000
each. All other eliminations will race for a minimum of $25,000. If an
elimination is required because more than 11, but less than 14 horses are
entered, there will be a single elimination to “qualify” only enough horses
that can be accommodated by the number of positions in the front tier of the
starting gate.
If there
are eliminations, post positions in the Final will be determined by an open
draw with the exception that Elimination winners in an order determined by lot,
will draw for post positions number one (#1) through five (#5) in the final.
All other finalists, including foreign invitees, will be placed in an open draw
for the remaining post positions. Those horse(s) that receive a bye into the
Final will be in the open draw for post positions in the Final. All horses that
start in the Final receive money.
The four
Breeders Crown open events will be raced Friday, Oct. 28 with a post time of
7:15 p.m. The remaining eight Breeders Crown finals will be raced on Saturday,
Oct. 29, with an early post time of 6:35 pm.
For more
information, lists of eligibles and racing conditions visit www.Hambletonian.org,
playmeadowlands.com or call 609-371-2211.
