Last season’s Breeders Crown divisional champion Warrawee Michelle made swift amends from a tepid beginning to her sophomore season to, in her fourth start of the year, bag gold in the $525,000 Hambletonian Oaks final on Saturday (Aug. 3) at the Meadowlands.
Nordic Catcher S, Champagne Problems easily win NJSS finals
Nordic Catcher S and Champagne Problems dominated in their respective $240,000 New Jersey Sire Stakes finals for 2-year-old trotters at the Meadowlands on Saturday (Aug. 3).
Karl rallies, Takter repeats in Hambletonian
Karl won the $1,050,000 Hambletonian on Saturday (Aug. 3) at the Meadowlands as trainer Nancy Takter continued a family tradition and Hall of Fame driver Yannick Gingras scored his first win in the trotting classic.
Jiggy Jog S sails into record books with Cashman win
Åke Svanstedt’s generational trotting mare Jiggy Jog S took her shot in the $282,000 John Cashman Memorial and stood to the task to not only beat male competition through a sudden downpour, but to also trounce the stakes and divisional track records at the Meadowlands on Saturday (Aug. 3).
M-M’s Dream collars Special Way in Steele Memorial
M-M’s Dream rallied on the outside in deep stretch to win Saturday’s (Aug. 3) $160,000 Dr. John R. Steele Memorial, for older female trotters, by 2-1/2 lengths over Special Way in 1:50.4 at the Meadowlands. Pioneer As was third.
Rocknroll Runa A stuns at 68-1 in Sam McKee Memorial
“The Bomber” struck for a colossal upset when 68-1 shot Rocknroll Runa A emerged victorious in the $220,000 Sam McKee Memorial, for open pacers, on Saturday’s (Aug. 3) Hambletonian Day undercard at the Meadowlands.
Hambletonian Day News Center
Hambletonian Day is underway at the Meadowlands! Visit our Hambletonian Day News Center for updates throughout the 16-race card worth over $3.4 million in purses.
Legendary Hanover dominates in Cane; Rocket Deo holds sway in Shady Daisy
Legendary Hanover kicked off a huge day of stakes action on Saturday (Aug. 3) at the Meadowlands with a track- and stakes-record 1:46.2 performance in the $248,000 Cane Pace, for sophomores. James MacDonald guided the son of Huntsville from the Well Said mare Lillian Hanover to his second straight stakes-winning performance, following a blowout 2-1/2-length victory in the Meadowlands Pace.
Sophomores look to Ohio State Fair Stakes
Sophomores head to Eldorado Scioto Downs to take on the final day of Ohio State Fair Stakes on Saturday (Aug. 3). Pacing colts and fillies as well as trotting colts will highlight the card.
Russell Hundley, 67, dies
Russell Bennett Hundley, 67, died July 31, 2024.