Category: Track News

It is with great excitement that Grand River Raceway, with support from Ontario Racing, announces they are proceeding with the construction of a five-eighths-mile track. Work will begin mid-August 2023 and is set to be completed by the end of April 2024.

he Meadowlands management is pleased and excited to again showcase harness racing’s greatest horses and events on the Fox Sports network via the popular television series America’s Day at the Races this season. The opportunity to join this initiative comes via an association with the New York Racing Association (NYRA). The first of eight broadcasts will take place this Saturday (April 29) with the entire card televised alongside the opening night of Thoroughbred racing for the spring meet at Churchill Downs.

MGM Yonkers Raceway has created a new pop-up series to test the versatility of claiming fillies and mares.

Here is this week’s Meadows Monday Memo.

The Meadowlands Racetrack and the SBOA of NJ will again cooperate to provide access to the racetrack for those horsemen wishing to train their young horses over the oval during the month of May, beginning on Thursday (May 4).

Attention horsemen: If you are bringing horses onto the Oak Grove property, it is required by the state of Kentucky that they have a current EIA (Coggins) test dated within the last 12 months and a health paper for each animal entering.

When a ferocious thunderstorm descended on The Meadowlands Saturday (April 15) just after the first race, things looked gloomy for the track’s streak of consecutive nights where handle exceeded $3 million.

Condition sheets are now available for the first two qualifying dates and the opening weekend of Eldorado Scioto Downs’ 2023 racing season.