Category: Track News

Live harness racing at The Meadowlands has been on hiatus for the last five weeks, but the No. 1 track in the sport is back on Friday (Oct. 20) and will race every Friday and Saturday through the end of 2023 with a first-race post time of 6:20 p.m.

On Saturday (Nov. 11), the Meadowlands Amateur Driving Club will honor five chosen charity recipients with $10,000 donations.

The box for Tuesday (Oct. 24) at Cumberland Run will close on Thursday (Oct. 19) at 9 a.m.

The Bally’s Dover live harness racing season opens Oct. 30 and runs through March 28, 2024, an 83-day meet.

A one-for-nine Monday night (Oct. 16) for favorites at MGM Yonkers Raceway included upsets of 35-1 by American Mercury in the $36,000 Open Pace and 10-1 by Fulsome, leading to the Pick-5 going unsolved for the second straight program. As a result, there will be a $40,508.31 carryover and a $100,000 guaranteed pool in the sequence on Tuesday night (Oct. 17).

The Meadowlands will resume live racing on Friday (Oct. 20) featuring the fourth leg of the Kindergarten Series and a few TrackMaster overnight series to fill out the weekend.

Two upsets during Friday night’s Pick-5 at MGM Yonkers Raceway resulted in a $6,650.57 carryover and a $20,000 guaranteed pool in the wager when racing resumes on Monday night.

Woodbine Entertainment and Standardbred Canada have announced that purse payments for all Ontario racetracks will be distributed exclusively to Canadian residents through Electronic Fund Transfer (direct deposit), as of April 1, 2024.

Saturday’s stakes action was tricky for Pick-5 bettors as the sequence went unsolved, setting up an opportunity for a sizeable pool on Sunday.