Handicapper Bob Pandolfo offers his selections for the full card at the Meadowlands on Friday (Jan. 9).
Author: by Bob Pandolfo
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.
Katie Hershberger, Parker Steck to receive 2025 OHHA Outstanding Groom Award
Katie Hershberger and Parker Steck have earned the Ohio Harness Horsemen’s Association’s Outstanding Groom Award for 2025.
Woodbine releases 2026 Standardbred stakes schedule
Woodbine Entertainment today released the schedule for its 2026 stakes season, featuring a trio of C$1-million-dollar races and 12 Grade 1 events.
Dexter Cup/Lady Suffolk late yearling payment update for foals of 2024
Due to the sudden relocation of the Dexter Cup and Lady Suffolk races to The Meadowlands Racetrack following the closure of Freehold Raceway in 2025, an accommodation has been approved for certain horses.
Gooden named a President’s Award recipient by USHWA
Documenting the Honor Walk for the late Hunter Myers was one of the most difficult moments of Meadows track photographer Chris Gooden’s career. While the task felt deeply painful, Gooden knew it was something the Myers family wanted and deserved.