Category: Track News

Rosecroft Raceway will be celebrating 75 years of harness racing this fall with 26 days of racing starting Monday (Sept. 16), continuing through Dec. 18.

The Breeders Crown Charity Challenge, the brainchild of prominent owner Marvin Katz, is back for a sixth year.

It might not be easy building to a crescendo when you have a meeting that is a mere four cards in duration, but that’s exactly what’s happening at The Meadowlands this weekend when Friday’s (Sept. 6) card features eight New Jersey Classic finals for 2- and 3-year-olds of each sex and gait for purses totaling $1.6 million.

When live racing resumes on Saturday night (Sept. 7) at MGM Northfield Park, fans will be treated to a nice surprise in the early Pick-4. On Wednesday evening (Sept. 4) the late Pick-4 was puzzling, and it spiraled a near five figure carryover of $9,267 over to the Saturday program.

For the second time this week there will be a Pick-5 carryover at MGM Yonkers Raceway as no tickets had five-of-five in the wager on Tuesday’s (Sept. 3) program, leading to $4,525.33 going into the pot for Wednesday’s (Sept. 4) card. The pool will be guaranteed at $15,000.

Here is this week’s Meadows Monday Memo.

Monday night’s (September 2) program at MGM Yonkers Raceway will have a $3,085.64 carryover in the Pick 5 after nobody had five-of-five in the wager on Saturday night (August 31). The guaranteed pool for the sequence will be $10,000.

Due to concern about the number races and trying to get everyone out a little earlier, the upcoming Tuesday (Sept. 3) card at the Red Mile has been reduced down from 20 betting races to 17. In order to do accommodate this, 3 races were moved from the normal betting card to early non betting races.