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07/11/2025

Previews for Meadowlands Pace night from this week's Harness Digest:

-Jay Bergman with veteran trainers Bruce Saunders, Dr. Ian Moore & Sam De Pinto on their Pace finalists: https://drf.com/news/meadowlands-pace-success-blind-age

-Derick Giwner's profile of Madden Oaks' trainer Cam Capone: https://drf.com/news/harness-profile-trainer-cam-capone

-Jay Bergman with Ron Burke on his undercard stakes contenders: https://drf.com/news/meadowlands-despite-louprints-pace-absence-burke-positive-about-undercard-chances

07/06/2025

Sabonis strutted his stuff in the Stan Bergstein Graduate Series final for 4-year-old pacing males on Saturday night at Meadowlands Racetrack.

Ssbonis, with Dexter Dunn in the sulky, employed new tactics, moving to the front-end in the early stages of Saturday's $230,000 Stan Bergstein Graduate Series final for 4-year-old pacers and scoring a mild upset in a career-best 1:47 3/5 in the Meadowlands co-feature.

07/06/2025

The mares led the way in the $230K Stan Bergstein Graduate Series final for 4-year-old trotters at Meadowlands Racetrack on Saturday, with Warrawee Michelle and Elista Hanover finishing 1-2.

The mares drew outside and the favored stallions and geldings were expected to dominate the $230,000 Stan Bergstein Graduate Series final for 4-year-old trotters, but Warrawee Michelle and Elista Hanover finished one-two in the contest, overcoming male competition, as well as posts eight and 10, res...

07/05/2025

In this week's edition of Harness Digest, our Hall of Famer Jay Bergman wrote about this year's class that will be inducted on Sunday in Goshen, New York.

The next generation of honorees will be firmly inducted into the Harness Racing's Hall of Fame this weekend (Sunday, July 6) in Goshen, New York. It's a solid class anchored by individuals that excelled both on and off the racetrack. As countless have found out, the path to Goshen is much like the p...

07/04/2025

Emoticon Legacy improved to three-for-three in 2025 after he won Thursday's Grade 2 $320K Dr. Harry M. Zweig Memorial for 3YO male trotters at Vernon Downs. (photo by Fotowon)

https://www.drf.com/news/vernon-emoticon-legacy-tallies-zweig-memorial-boys

07/04/2025

Torrisi fought back determinedly after being passed by What A Bid Hanover and won Thursday's Grade 2 Dr. Harry M. Zweig Memorial for 3-year-old filly trotters at Vernon Downs. (photo by Fotowon)

https://www.drf.com/news/vernon-torrisi-toughs-it-out-zweig-memorial-fillies

07/04/2025

Weekend previews from Harness Digest -

Jay Bergman with Nancy Takter & Brett Pelling on their Stan Bergstein Graduate Series finalists Saturday at Meadowlands Racetrack: https://drf.com/news/meadowlands-takter-pelling-send-out-pair-each-saturdays-graduate

Derick Giwner with Anthony MacDonald on his trio of Next Generation starters on Saturday at Scioto: https://drf.com/news/scioto-macdonald-trio-set-saturdays-next-generation

Ohio-sired 2-year-olds get their

06/29/2025

Sylvia Hanover defeated 2024 Horse of the Year Twin B Joe Fresh with a rallying victory in the Grade 3 Perfect Sting for pacing mares on Saturday night at Meadowlands Racetrack.

The darling of her class as a 2- and 3-year-old, Sylvia Hanover endured many defeats as Twin B Joe Fresh claimed the crown in the 4-year-old campaign in progress to a Horse of the Year title. But Sylvia Hanover returned in the fourth start of her 5-year-old season and landed a serious wallop on 1-9....

06/29/2025

Periculum worked out a second-over trip and then rallied powerfully to win Saturday's Grade 3 Crawford Farms Open Trot at Meadowlands Racetrack.

Periculum has only made two starts so far in 2025, but he's made them count, as this year's Arthur J. Cutler Memorial winner added a career-best 1:50 victory in the Grade 3 $164,000 Crawford Farms Open Trot on Saturday night at the Meadowlands.

06/29/2025

A pair of Dave Brower Memorial divisions for older male pacers on Saturday night at Meadowlands Racetrack were won by Coach Stefanos and Ken Hanover.

Saturday (June 28) saw speedy returning victories by Ken Hanover, a winner once last year from 12 starts in a lifetime-best mile over this track, and 2024 Breeders Crown Open Pace champion Coach Stefanos in their respective $86,500 divisions of the Dave Brower Memorial at the Meadowlands.

06/29/2025

A big Saturday night of stakes racing at Meadowlands Racetrack began with Call Me Goo winning the Grade 3 $114,500 Six Pack for older trotting mares.

Trainer Ake Svanstedt sent out four of the seven entrants in Saturday's Grade 3 $114,500 Six Pack for older trotting mares at the Meadowlands and won with Call Me Goo, the one he was driving, in 1:51 2/5. The winner's share of the purse made Call Me Goo harness racing's newest millionaire.