Last call for Feb. 15 stakes payments
February 15, 2011,from harness publicists across North America
The Feb. 15 deadline is drawing near for many stakes payments. Below are a list of notices that have been submitted to the USTA Newsroom. Nominations due at Indiana Downs Shelbyville, IN — Nominations for the Monument Circle, Oliver Trotting Classic, Pride In Progress, Indiana Pacing Derby, Kentuckiana Stakes and Circle City for 3-year-olds are due Feb 15. Nomination forms can be found on the Indiana Downs website by clicking here. — Indiana Downs Series nomination payments due at Yonkers Yonkers, NY — Yonkers Raceway is reminding horsemen that a pair of series nomination deadlines are fast approaching, one faster than the other.
Nominations for both the Petticoat and Sagamore Hill Pacing Series close this Tuesday (Feb. 15), while nominations for Yonkers’ premier events for older horses, the Blue Chip Matchmaker and George Morton Levy Memorial Pacing Series, close Tuesday, March 1.
Forms continue to be available online (www.yonkersraceway.com), in the nightly racing program, in the race office and through various trade publications as well as their respective websites. Any questions, please contact the race office at 914.457.2627.
— Frank Drucker
Payments due in Delaware
Dover, DE — Payments are due to be postmarked by Tuesday, Feb. 15, for all the eligible 3-year-olds planning to participate in DSBF 2011 races. The amount due is $300. A March 15, 2010 payment of $100 must have previously been made.
Dover will be on a five day race schedule for these races so please contact the race office at 302.674.4600, ext. 3230, for the correct draw and scratch times.
Overnight events for these eligibles will be held two weeks prior to the first leg which is on March 30. Please check the track condition sheet.
Forms are available online at www.desbf.com.
— Judy Davis-Wilson
Smith stakes payments due Feb. 15
Manalapan, NJ — The first of two sustaining payments for the Charles I. Smith and Helen Smith Trots are due on Feb. 15.
The $200 fee should be forwarded by check or money order, payable to the SBOANJ, to the Standardbred Breeders & Owners Association of New Jersey, 64 Business Route 33, Manalapan, NJ 07726. The second payment of $300 is due on April 15.
The $80,000 (est.) Charles Smith and its filly companion race, the $70,000 (est.) Helen Smith will both be contested on Sept. 9 at Freehold Raceway. Eliminations are the prior week.
The Standardbred Breeders & Owners Association of New Jersey sponsors the two stakes which are restricted to New Jersey-sired 3-year-old trotters. For forms and details, visit www.sboanj.com.
— Carol Hodes
OSS 3-year-old payments due
Toronto, ON — The Ontario Sires Stakes administration would like to remind everyone that the deadline for OSS 3-year-old sustaining payments is fast approaching. The C$700 payment must be postmarked on or before Tuesday, Feb. 15.
All checks should be made payable and mailed (registered mail is recommended) to: Ontario Sires Stakes, 10 Carlson Court, Suite 400, Toronto, ON M9W 6L2.
The C$500 OSS sustaining fee for 2-year-olds is due March 15 and reminder notices are being mailed this week.
For more information please contact: Karen Hauver, OSS Administration Coordinator, at 519.369.3545.
— Karen Hauver
February payments for all Hambletonian Society-serviced stakes due
Cranbury, NJ — The initial payment deadline for eligibility to more than 120 stakes events, headlined by the $1.7 million Hambletonian at The Meadowlands and C$6 million Breeders Crown events at Woodbine Racetrack, is fast approaching.
Payments for all Hambletonian Society-serviced stakes must be postmarked by midnight on Wednesday, Feb. 16, per USTA rule 12, section 4.
The Hambletonian Society services 121 of harness racing’s richest and most prestigious events and provides one-stop shopping for your staking needs. Our website, www.Hambletonian.org contains all the tools and information necessary to stake your horse yourself. Race conditions, payment forms and much more information is now available online. For more information call the Society offices at 609.371.2211.
Races with Feb. 15 payments due are: Delvin Miller Adios (Adioo Volo filly division); Arden Downs Stakes; Earl Beal Jr. Memorial Trot for 3-year-olds; Breeders Crown; Cane Pace (Shady Daisy); Circle City for 3-year-olds; Cleveland Classic (Courageous Lady); Currier & Ives Trot (and Filly Trot); Dexter Cup (Lady Suffolk Trot); Hambletonian (Hambletonian Oaks); Max Hempt Memorial (James M. Lynch Filly Division); Historic Series (now raced at Tioga and Vernon Downs); Hoosier Cup; The Horseman; Indiana Pacing Derby for 3- and up Free For all Pacers; Keystone Classics for 3-year-olds; Landmark Stakes; Matron Stakes; Messenger Stake (Lady Maud); Monument Circle for 3-year-old colt and gelding pacers; Oliver Trotting Classic for 3-year old colt and gelding trotters; Pride in Progress for 3- and up Free For All Trotters; Progress Pace; W. N. Reynolds Memorial Stakes; Art Rooney Pace (Lismore Filly Division); John Simpson Memorial Colt and Filly Stakes; Tompkins-Geers Stakes; and Yonkers Trot.
— Moira Fanning
Western Fair stakes deadlines approaching
London, ON — Western Fair Raceway reminds all horse owners and trainers that the stakes deadline for its two signature events, the Molson Pace and the Forest City Pace, are due Tuesday, Feb. 15.
This year’s Molson Pace, an open pace which has C$225,000 added to the final purse, will go postward on Friday, May 20, for eliminations with the final the following week, May 27. A nomination fee of C$1,000 is due on Feb. 15 followed by a C$2,000 starting fee at time of entry.
The distaff companion event to the Molson Pace, the Forest City Pace for mares, anchors the track’s fall schedule. Eliminations are scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 19, with the C$150,000 (added) final on Nov. 26. A nomination fee of C$750 is due on Feb. 15 followed by a C$1,500 starting fee at time of entry.
Nomination fees should be sent to: Western Fair Raceway, Attn: Ian Fleming, P.O. Box 7550, London, Ontario, N5Y 5P8. All entries must be postmarked on or before Feb. 15, 2011. Registered mail is recommended. Late entries will not be accepted.
Further information, nomination forms and race conditions, are available on the Western Fair website through this link.
— Western Fair Media Relations
Nominations due for Meadowlands Pace and Early Closers
East Rutherford, NJ — Nominations for Meadowlands Racetrack’s early closing program and the $1 million Meadowlands Pace are due Tuesday, Feb. 15.
Stakes applications are available at MeadowlandsRacetrack.com.
Nominating and sustaining fees for the Meadowlands Pace, to be raced July 16, have been reduced 30 percent compared with the 2009 fees. The race also features a $100,000 guaranteed consolation to be raced Pace Night.
The early closing program consists of the Arthur J. Cutler, Stanley Dancer Memorial, Golden Girls, Graduate, Peter Haughton Memorial, William R. Haughton Memorial, Lady Liberty, Merrie Annabelle, Mistletoe Shalee, Del Miller Memorial, Sweetheart, Titan Cup, US Pacing Championship and Woodrow Wilson.
Mail-in nominations must be postmarked by Feb. 15. Horsemen with questions may contact the Meadowlands race office toll free at 877.782.2537 or e-mail Andrea Hanley at ahanley@njsea.com.
— Amy Silver
Champion of Champions nominations due Feb. 15
Toledo, OH — Nominations for the 2011 Champion of Champions at Raceway Park are due postmarked no later than Feb. 15.
Unlike years in the past, the Champion of Champions races are now open to all Ohio fair circuits. The races will be contested on Sunday, September 11. The purse of each event is estimated at $8,000.
Nomination forms are available by clicking this link.
— Anthony Clark
WEG stakes payment reminder
Toronto, ON — With the calender now turned to February, Woodbine Entertainment Group would like to remind all horse owners and trainers that nominations for its major stakes events, including the C$1,500,000 Pepsi North America Cup and the C$1,000,000 Canadian Trotting Classic close Tuesday, Feb. 15.
Also, sustaining payments are due for the 2011 Simcoe, Simcoe Filly and SBOA stakes events for 3-year-olds.
For more detailed information on all events that close Feb. 15, please click on this link.
Envelopes must be clearly postmarked no later than the said due date. Registered mail is recommended.
— Greg Gangle
Maryland staking and stallion info online
Union Bridge, MD — The 3-year-old payments (foals of 2008) are due to the Maryland Standardbred Fund and the Maryland Sire Stakes on Feb. 15.
All staking forms, race dates and stallion pedigrees are now available online. Please use our website for all your current MSRF info and any updates as they become available.
We recommend that all payments be sent by certified mail. Please remember to check and make sure you have the updated address for the Maryland Standardbred Race Fund: P.O. Box 540, Union Bridge, MD 21791.
Regulations can be found on our website at http://www.msrfonline.com/ or you may call 410.775.0152 (office) or my cell at 240.285.0326.
— Cheri Stambaugh
NYSS payments due Feb. 15
Albany, NY — The New York Sire Stakes officials remind horsemen that continuation payments are due Feb. 15. These payments are required to be eligible to race in the 2011 NYSS season.
Checks or money orders must be in US funds, postmarked by Feb. 15, and made payable to the Agriculture & New York State Horse Breeding Development Fund. Mail to 90 State Street, Suite 809, Albany, NY 12207. The NYSS Payment Form is available for download at http://www.nysirestakes.com/, on the “Forms and Downloads” page.
The NYSS 2011 February payments are per horse and are as follows:
2-Year-Old Payments
Sire Stakes: $200
State Fair: $100
County Fair: $25
3-Year-Old Payments
Sire Stakes: $250
State Fair: $100
County Fair: $25
The $200 2-year-old Sire Stakes payment must be paid for the horse to be eligible to stake to the Sire Stakes and Late Closers as a 3-year-old if your horse is not racing this year as a 2-year-old. Both of the Sire Stakes February and April payments must be paid prior to staking your horse to race in the NYSS Late Closers. This applies to both age groups.
For more information, visit http://www.nysirestakes.com/ or contact the Agriculture & New York State Horse Breeding Development Fund at 518.436.8713 or e-mail info@nysirestakes.com.
— Agriculture & New York State Horse Breeding Development Fund
Payments due Feb. 15 for 2011 NJSS races
Trenton, NJ — The Feb. 15 deadline for New Jersey Sire Stakes first sustaining payments is the last chance for owners of New Jersey sired 2- and 3-year-old pacers and trotters to be kept eligible to the 2011 Premier and Green Acres racing programs.
The NJSS Premier Division will be contested exclusively at the Meadowlands in 2011 starting in June. The Green Acres Division begins in September at Freehold.
One new NJSS rule this year is that horses that qualify for the Premier Division finals at the Meadowlands will not remain eligible to compete in the Green Acres series at Freehold Raceway.
The NJSS Premier Division’s first payment has been reduced this year to $300 for both 2- and 3-year-olds. The Green Acres Division payment remains $100 for both 2- and 3-year-olds.
Also on Feb. 15, a $650 supplemental 2010 yearling nomination (for foals of 2009) can be made for eligibility to the NJSS. That fee is in addition to the sustaining payments for 2-year-olds also due on Feb. 15.
The 2-year-old sustaining payment must be made in order to keep the horse eligible as a 3-year-old in 2011, even if the horse does not race in 2010 as a 2-year-old. Supplemental nominations are also due Feb. 15 for the NJSS-sponsored 2011 Lou Babic Open Pace ($400) and Babic Filly Pace ($300).
These payments must be in US funds. No late payments will be accepted and no billing notices will be mailed. Certified mail is strongly recommended to NJSS, P.O. Box 330, Trenton, NJ 08625.
— Leon Zimmerman
Payments due for Jug, Jugette
Delaware, OH — Sustaining payments for the 66th Little Brown Jug and the 41st Jugette are due Feb. 15. These are for foals of 2008. All payments must be made to Tom Wright, P.O. Box 1560, Powell, OH 43065.
Stakes payments:
Little Brown Jug No. 66 — $750
Open 3-Year-Old Pace
Jugette No. 41 — $500
Pace for 3-Year-Old Fillies
Old Oaken Bucket No. 44 — $500
Open 3-Year-Old Trot
Buckette No. 44 — $400
Trot for 3-Year-Old Fillies
A nomination fee of $500 is also due Feb. 15 for the $75,000 (est.) Winbak Farm Pace for 4-year-olds and up, to be raced Thursday, Sept. 22.
— Tom White
Balmoral, Maywood stakes payments due
Crete, IL–The initial nominating payments for Balmoral and Maywood Park’s biggest stakes events of the 2011 season are due by Feb. 15.
Stakes payments that are due by that date include Super Night events for 3-year-olds, American National Stakes for older horses and 3-year-olds and Hanover Stakes for 3-year-olds. Checks or money orders should be made payable to Balmoral Park and sent to: Balmoral Park, 26435 S. Dixie Hwy, Crete, IL 60417.
Nominating payments for Super Night’s 2-year-old events, the Lincoln Land and Lady Lincoln Land Stakes, American National and Hanover Stakes for 2-year-olds and the Illinois Southland Festival of Racing at Balmoral Park are due by March 15.
At Maywood Park nominating payments are due by Feb. 15 for the Windy City Pace, Cinderella Stakes, Maywood Pace and the Filly Maywood Pace.
Checks or money orders should be made payable to Maywood Park and sent to: Eliot Narotsky c/o Maywood Park, 8600 W. North Ave, Melrose Park, IL 60160. (Registered mail is recommended).
Payments for two other events at Maywood, the Abe Lincoln Stakes and the Galt Stakes are due by March 15.
All payment information and nomination forms are available on each tracks website under the Horsemen’s Information tab at www.balmoralpark.com and www.maywoodpark.com
Additional information can be obtained by calling the race office at each track. Balmoral Park’s phone number is (708) 672-1414 and Maywood Park’s phone number is (708) 343-4800.
–Tom Kelley