The start of Sunday racing and the first of 11 editions of the 2026 Meadowlands Monthly Handicapping Contest are the highlight happenings at The Big M this weekend.
Author: from Meadowlands Racetrack Media Relations
Drivers sought for MLK Remembrance Race at Meadowlands
The Meadowlands Racetrack will once again pay tribute to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Saturday, Jan. 17, with a race featuring African-American drivers.
Roger Huston receives Hagemeyer Significant Contribution Award from OHHA
The Ohio Harness Horsemen’s Association has awarded the prestigious Maynard and Stella Hagemeyer Significant Contribution Award to track announcer Roger Huston for 2025.
Jailhouse Pearl named Ohio 3-Year-Old Trotting Filly of the Year
Banking more than $300,000 in earnings, Jailhouse Pearl has been named the 2025 Ohio 3-Year-Old Trotting Filly of the Year.
Pandy’s Meadowlands selections for Jan. 9
Handicapper Bob Pandolfo offers his selections for the full card at the Meadowlands on Friday (Jan. 9).
Austin Hanners aims to keep improving as 2026 season begins
Austin Hanners can look back on his 2025 season and enjoy the fact he won the three biggest races of his career so far, including a Breeders Crown, but that will not change his focus going forward.
Team Miller hosts local 4-H group
Offshore Farm, owned and operated by Andy and Julie Miller, last week hosted 20 Monmouth County 4-H program students and parents at their newly built therapy and rehabilitation facility located in Cream Ridge, N.J.
Go Dog Go, Delaney Hanover to race in 2026
Four-year-olds Go Dog Go and Delaney Hanover, both among the sport’s fastest sophomore trotters last season, will return to the track in 2026.
IRB issues licenses; Hawthorne resumes operations
A story Tuesday on the Paulick Report says the Illinois Racing Board on Monday (Jan. 5) gave Hawthorne Race Course a green light to reopen its 11 off-track betting facilities and resume live racing three days after the state regulatory agency ordered the Stickney, Ill., track to cease operations because it had failed to meet unspecified requirements for a 2026 license.
Lt Loverboy named Ohio 3-Year-Old Trotting Colt of the Year
Repeat divisional award-winner Lt Loverboy won five of 11 starts on his way to being named Ohio’s 3-Year-Old Trotting Colt of the Year for 2025.