from the Meadowlands Media Relations Department

East Rutherford, NJ — The 2015 Grand Circuit racing season at The Meadowlands begins on Saturday night (April 25) with the $47,306 Tar Heel, the 3-year-old pacing colt division of the W.N. Reynolds Memorial stake.

Trainer John Butenschoen holds a strong hand in the Tar Heel with a pair of multiple PA Sires Stakes winners in Tomy Terror and Dragon Eddy.

Tomy Terror was precocious right from the start as a freshman, finishing no worse than second in each of his first ten outings. He fell but a nose short of being the PASS champ for his division, dropping the photo in a snappy 1:50.3 at Pocono last September.

At season’s end, Tomy Terror had banked in excess of $200,000 and lowered the Vernon Downs track record for 2-year-gelding pacers to 1:50.2 in the John F. Simpson Memorial stake. He is owned by the partnership of William Wiswell, Jean Goehlen, Eugene Shick and The VIP Internet Stable, LLC.

Dragon Eddy was also a model of consistency for Butenschoen last season, boasting five wins among eight on-the-board finishes in nine starts at two. He rattled off three state restricted stakes wins at the start and also made the PASS final, finishing fourth. Among his wins was a score at Tioga in a freshman division of the Reynolds. His earnings at year end stood at $143,607 for the same ownership group.

Both are making their seasonal bow in the Reynolds stake, which opens the card as the first half of the Daily Double at 7:15 p.m.

Later in the evening the second leg of the Whata Baron series offers a very competitive, bulky field of 12 in a single division contested at the distance of a mile and one eighth. Leg one winners Bettorever and Rediscovery return with the latter faced with a second tier start from post 12.

Also on Saturday are three Spring Preview events which are filled with sophomore pacers embarking on their promise-filled seasons and a solid 4- and 5-year-old Open Pace.

The $50,000 World Harness Handicapping Contest will take place at The Meadowlands on Saturday and there is still time to enter this lucrative test of skill. The fun starts at 7:15, don’t miss it!