Overthemoonforyou, who has won 11 of her 13 starts at the meet, including a trio of Sire Stakes, has top billing in Friday night’s (April 11) distaff pacing feature at Cal Expo.
Month: April 2025
Big M to go national again on Fox
For a fifth consecutive year, the TV teams at the New York Racing Association (NYRA) and The Meadowlands will combine forces to bring high-caliber harness racing stakes events to a national television audience over the networks of Fox Sports as part of NYRA’s “America’s Day at the Races” telecasts.
One newcomer, one returnee, set to start Melander’s season
Marcus Melander will get his stable’s 2025 season underway Friday (April 11) at The Meadowlands, and he will do it with two horses that were competing overseas in recent years. Melander, who last year set career highs with 104 wins and $6.59 million in purses, will send out Aetos Kronos S and S I P in Friday’s featured $17,500 conditioned trot at The Big M.
Pandy’s Meadowlands selections for April 11
Handicapper Bob Pandolfo offers his selections for the full card at The Meadowlands on Friday night (April 11).
New episode of Creekside Chat REVAMPED
Creekside Chat REVAMPED has just dropped a brand new episode.
Strong cards for Cumberland opening weekend
This year’s first live pari-mutuel harness racing in the state of Maine kicks off this weekend at Cumberland Raceway, just north of Portland. The iconic Cumberland fairgrounds has hosted the Standardbred sport for over 150 years, and this year marks the fifth consecutive season that ‘First Tracks’ has held 50-plus day racing meets in the Pine Tree State.
College Tuition wires Rosecroft trotters
After five consecutive runner-up finishes, Eric Foster’s homebred College Tuition made every call a winning one in Wednesday’s (April 9) $12,000 Open Handicap Trot at Rosecroft Raceway, evading living legend JL Cruze by 6-3/4 lengths in a dominant pillar-to-post score.
Clean sweep for Gingras and Burke in John Brennan Trotting Series
Antognoni S, Blockchain and Busy Making Moni gave driver Yannick Gingras and trainer Ron Burke the victories in the trio of $30,000 divisions of the second leg of the John Brennan Trotting Series on Wednesday night (April 9) at MGM Yonkers Raceway.
Equine Affaire this weekend
Equine Affaire opens up Thursday (April 10) at the Ohio Expo Center in Columbus, Ohio, and runs through Sunday (April 13). The USTA and Ohio Harness Horsemen’s Association have once again teamed up to promote the excitement of harness racing and programs like the Standardbred Incentive Program for retired racehorses.
USHWA Ohio Chapter offering Hirt scholarship
The Ohio Chapter of the United States Harness Writers Association (USHWA) is offering one Ohio-based journalism student the opportunity to participate in the Clyde Hirt Journalism Workshop from July 30-Aug. 2 in East Rutherford, N.J.