Meadowlands
Media Relations
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RUTHERFORD, N.J. – Meadowlands regulars – as well as those customers who tend
to come only on the big days – are in for a treat over the next two weekends,
as in addition to the recently resumed live harness action, the mile track will
be hosting the best and brightest in both harness and thoroughbred racing over its
extensive simulcast network.
Racing
fans will be able to watch and wager on the Breeders Crown Finals this Saturday
evening, Oct. 27. Next weekend, it’s the 14-race Breeders’ Cup World
Championships, which will be conducted over two race programs: Friday, Nov. 2
and Saturday, Nov. 3.
The
Breeders Crown, which will have all 12 of its championship events Saturday at
Pocono Downs, has a first-race post time of 5:30 p.m. for the 14-race program.
The Crown events will be conducted on races three through 14. The third race
has a post time of 6:10 p.m.
The
Breeders’ Cup will be held at Churchill Downs with five of the events to be
held on Nov. 2 during the course of a program that gets underway at 12:55 p.m.
On Nov. 3, post time will be 10:45 a.m. Among the nine races on the Nov. 3
agenda is the $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic (post time 5:44 p.m.), which
caps a spectacular weekend of racing at the home of the Kentucky Derby.
For
Big M fans who want to catch some “Cup Fever”, they can come for a special
$39.95 buffet in the track’s Pink Restaurant for the Nov. 3 program. The dining
room opens at 11 a.m. and the seating ends at 6 p.m. to make way for the
evening harness diners. Call 201-THE-BIGM to make reservations.
The
Big M’s live action kicks off this Friday night at 7:15 p.m. with eight
divisions of the sixth and final leg of the Kindergarten Classic for
2-year-olds while Saturday night’s 12-race card will offer plenty of
opportunities for players with full 10-horse fields being offered on each of
the final seven races on the card.
As
usual, the Big M will offer a low 15 percent takeout on its popular multi-race
wagers: the 50-Cent Pick-5 (which offers a guaranteed pool of $25,000) and the
50-Cent Pick-4 (which sports a $50,000 promise).
Last
weekend saw a mixture of well-known names, as well as some not-so-well-known do
good things at the Big M.
Over
the course of the two programs contested on Oct. 19-20, Tony Alagna led the
trainers with four wins, followed by Ron Burke and Andrew Harris, who had two
apiece.
Vincent
Ginsburg topped the driver colony with five winner’s circle visits, followed by
Dexter Dunn, Mitchell Cushing and Pat Berry, all of whom had three each.
