Trot Insider has compiled all of the February 15 stakes payment reminders that have been sent to Standardbred Canada from the industry.
The contents of Standardbred Canada’s own February 15 stakes payment reminder appear below. Also, please be aware that SC has issued a stakes notice pertaining to four Alberta stakes that have had their payment deadlines extended to March 15.
Additionally, please be aware that owners of three-year-old horses eligible to be sustained to the Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) have been given a payment extension until March 15.
Also, the Woodbine Entertainment Group announced earlier this year that, beginning in 2017, all nominations to WEG Stakes will now close on February 15.
Please be aware that additional stakes payment reminders will be listed at the bottom of this notice when they are received.
To consult SC Stakes Online, please click here.
SC’s February 15 Stakes Payment Notice
Standardbred Canada would like to remind owners and trainers that stakes payments are due February 15.
Payment information and stake conditions can be viewed on the Online Stakes Guide by clicking here.
A generic stakes form can be used to submit payments by mail. It can be located by clicking here.
Also, please be aware that SC has issued a stakes notice pertaining to four Alberta stakes that have had their payment deadlines extended to March 15.
Maritime Three-Year-Old Sustaining Payments
• Atlantic Sires Stakes - $100
• Bill Quigg - $100
• Carl & Marg Mackenzie - $100
• Donnie & George Turner - $100
• Frank & Beth Stanfield - $275
• Island Breeders Series - $300
• Joe O'Brien Memorial - $150
• Lady Slipper Series - $150
• Maritime Breeders Futurity - $300
• Maritimer - $125
• Nova Scotia Stake - $150
Horsepeople paying the Atlantic Sires Stakes sustaining payment must also pay the Atlantic Standardbred Breeders Association membership fee of $50 per-owner per-year. If you have not already paid this fee in 2017, please remit it with your February 15 stakes payments.
If not paying by Interac (debit) or with a credit card via SC Stakes Online, please mail and make cheques payable to:
Standardbred Canada - Stakes Department
2150 Meadowvale Blvd.
Mississauga, ON
L5N 6R6
If paying by cheque or money order, envelopes must be clearly post-marked on or before Wednesday, February 15 to be accepted, despite inadequacies of the postal system.
For more information, contact the Standardbred Canada stakes department at 905-858-3060 (Ext. 247) or [email protected].
The Woodbine Entertainment Group’s February 15 Stakes Payment Reminder
The deadline to nominate your horse to the Woodbine Entertainment Group’s (WEG) lucrative stakes program in 2017 is quickly approaching.
New in 2017, the closing date for nominations to all WEG and Alliance Stakes is February 15. In past years, nomination deadlines varied from event to event, but in an effort to make the process more convenient, WEG has implemented an across the board due date for all stakes.
Under the new format, the following stakes now require nominations by February 15.
Canadian Pacing Derby (Pace: three-year-olds and up)
Maple Leaf Trot (Trot: three-year-olds and up)
Metro Pace (Pace: two-year-olds)
Shes A Great Lady (Pace: two-year-old fillies)
William Wellwood Memorial (Trot: two-year-olds)
Peaceful Way (Trot: two-year-old fillies)
Nassagaweya (Pace: two-year-olds)
Eternal Camnation (Pace: two-year-old fillies)
Roses Are Red (Pace: Mares)
Milton Stakes (Pace: Mares)
Armbro Flight (Trot: Mares)
Nominations are also due on February 15 for the $1 million Pepsi North America Cup for three-year-old pacers. North America’s richest race for pacers will take place on Saturday, June 17 at Mohawk Racetrack.
Other events to require nominations by February 15 include the $650,000 Canadian Trotting Classic (three-year-olds), $400,000 Elegantimage (three-year-old trotting fillies), $400,000 Fan Hanover (three-year-old pacing fillies), $265,000 Goodtimes (three-year-old trotters), $160,000 Casual Breeze (three-year-old trotting fillies) and the $130,000 Somebeachsomewhere (three-year-old pacers).
Similar to recent years, WEG continues to handle all administration duties for Alliance racetrack stakes.
Nominations are due on February 15 for Grand Rivers Raceway’s Battle of Waterloo and Battle of the Belles (Ontario-sired two-year-old pacers), Flamboro Downs’ Confederation Cup (four-year-old pacers), Clinton Raceway’s Kin Pace (Ontario-sired three-year-old pacing fillies) and Hanover Raceway’s Dream of Glory (Ontario-sired three-year-old trotters) and Balanced Image (Ontario-sired two-year-old trotters).
The nomination form for the events closing on February 15 can be viewed by clicking here.
Nomination fees for all events can be paid online by clicking here
If sending nominations by mail, envelopes must be clearly post-marked no later than February 15, 2017 or payment will not be accepted. Registered mail is recommended.
All inquires regarding the February 15 closing date can be directed to the Mohawk Racetrack race office, 905-854-7805.
(WEG)
OSS Payment Deadline Extended
Owners of three-year-old horses eligible to be sustained to the Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) are being given an extension.
Ontario Racing has extended the payment deadline from February 15 to March 15, 2017.
The Board of Directors at Ontario Racing, based on recommendations from the Standardbred Advisory Group, will be approving the 2017 OSS and Standardbred Improvement Program.
It is expected that the OSS Program format and schedule will be released before February 15. However, owners are being given an extension to make their payments as the reminder notices have not yet been mailed.
Further information will be posted on the OSS website (ontariosiresstakes.com), the Ontario Racing website (ontarioracing.com) and other industry sites as it becomes available.
(OSS)
Meadows Offering Eight Spring Series
In March and April the Meadows will offer eight early and late-closing series, including a quartet for three and four-year-olds and another quartet exclusively for sophomores.
The events for three and four-year-olds, which are limited to Pennsylvania-owned or sired horses, will each feature two preliminary legs plus a championship with an estimated $20,000 purse. The series for three-year-olds, restricted to Pennsylvania-sired horses, include two preliminary legs and a final worth an estimated $25,000.
Entry fee for each series is $300. The series are listed below.
• The Donna Dunn Memorial Pace – three and four-year-old filly and mare pacers – first leg March 6
• The Ken Weaver Memorial Trot – three and four-year-old colt and gelding trotters – first leg March 7
• The Mary Wohlmuth Memorial Trot – three and four-year-old filly and mare trotters – first leg March 8
• The Walter Russell Memorial Pace – three and four-year-old colt and gelding pacers – first leg March11
• The Medusa Pace – three-year-old filly pacers – first leg April 3
• The Tamarind Trot – three-year-old colt and gelding trotters – first leg April 4
• The Princess Pablano Trot – three-year-old filly trotters – first leg April 5
• The Unlocked Pace – three-year-old colt and gelding pacers – first leg April 8
Nominations close February 15 for the three and four-year-old events, and March 15 for the sophomore series.
For nomination forms or more information, contact the Meadows race office at 724-225-9897 or visit the track’s website (meadowsgaming.com).
(Meadows)
Stakes Payments Due In Florida On February 15
The FSBOA three-year-old (foals of 2014) colt/filly, trotters/pacers stakes payments are due by February 15.
You can pay online on floridaharnessracing.com or mail a payment in at FSBOA, 1800 SW 3rd St., Pompano Beach, FL 33069.
If you have any questions, call Rosie at 954-972-5400.
The payments are as follows:
Florida Breeders Stake - $100
Sunshine State Stake - $100
Stallion Stake - $100
(Rosie Huff)
Meadowlands Stakes Nomination Information
The Meadowlands Racetrack wishes to remind owners and trainers of the impending close of nominations to its Grand Circuit stakes.
All Meadowlands 2017 stakes have a nomination deadline of (postmarked by) February 15. The race office can be reached at 201-842-5130.
All of the forms and details are available by clicking the appropriate link that appears below.
• Nomination Forms/Payment Info
• Live Racing & Stakes Calendar
• Chronological List of Stakes
(Meadowlands Racetrack)
ICF STAKE PAYMENTS DUE FEB. 15 FOR THREE-YEAR-OLDS
Racing Secretary Robin Schadt would like to remind all horsepeople wishing to enter three-year-olds for this year’s Illinois Conceived and Foaled stakes program, that nomination payments must be postmarked no later than Wednesday, Feb. 15. The fee for this season’s sophomore events is $1,750.
Payments for this season’s Illinois Conceived and Foaled 2 year-old stakes ($1,250) are due by April 15.
Horsepeople are also reminded that an intensive Late Closing Series will also be offered to kick off this summer’s meet at Hawthorne. Nominating payments ($300) for those events are due by April 1st.
Entry forms and schedules for all stakes and late closers can be found at hawthorneracecourse.com.
All payments should be made payable to Suburban Downs and sent to:
Hawthorne Race Course
Att. Bookeeper
3501 S. Laramie Avenue
Cicero, IL 60804
708-780-3700
(Hawthorne Race Course)
PAYMENTS DUE FEBRUARY 15 FOR 2017 NJSS PREMIER DIVISION AND STANDARDBRED DEVELOPMENT FUND
The deadline for the New Jersey Sire Stakes and Standardbred Development Fund’s first sustaining payments is the last chance for owners of two-year-old and three-year-old pacers and trotters to be kept eligible to the 2017 Premier Division and Standardbred Development Fund racing programs.
The NJSS Premier Division will be contested exclusively again at the Meadowlands Racetrack in 2016 starting in May/early June for three-year-olds and in late June/July for two-year-olds.
In 2017 the Green Acres Division has been completely replaced by the New Jersey Standardbred Development Fund series of races. The SDF is open to all horses sired by a New Jersey-based stallion as well as the offspring of mares who have resided in New Jersey for a minimum of 150 days, regardless of where the sire stands. Previous registration of the mare while she was in foal and a yearling nomination are required to establish eligibility. The SDF races will be held beginning in September at Freehold Raceway, the location of all races in the series.
The NJSS Premier Division’s first sustaining payment remains $300 for both two-year-olds and three-year-olds. The initial Standardbred Development Fund sustaining payment for both two-year-olds and three-year-olds remains $100.
Also on February 15, a $650 supplemental 2016 yearling nomination (for foals of 2015) can be made for eligibility to the New Jersey Sire Stakes Premier Division and the SDF. Those fees are in addition to the sustaining payments for two-year-olds also due on February 15. The supplemental fee for the sire stakes premier division is $850 if the foal was produced by an out-of-state breeding.
The first two-year-old sustaining payments must be made in order to keep the horse eligible as a three-year-old in 2018 to both the Premier Division and the Standardbred Development Fund, even if the horse does not race in 2017 as a two-year-old.
Horsemen are also reminded of the upcoming nomination for the inaugural Renaissance Pace for two year-old pacers — open and filly divisions. The Renaissance will be run as an early closer in 2017 with nominating fees of $700 for the Open Division and $400 for the Filly Division due March 15.
Sustaining payment and supplemental nomination forms, as well as race dates and other information, may be found on the NJSS website at newjerseysirestakes.com.
All payments must be in U.S. 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.
(New Jersey Sire Stakes)
February Payments for all Hambletonian Society-serviced Stakes Due
The initial payment deadline for 2017 eligibility to more than 130 stakes events at 13 different tracks, headlined by the $1 million Hambletonian heats at the Meadowlands Racetrack on Saturday, August 5 and the $5.8 million Breeders Crown finals at Hoosier Park in Anderson, Indiana on October 27 and 28, is just five days away.
All payments for all Hambletonian Society-serviced stakes are due Wednesday, February 15 and must be postmarked by midnight on Thursday, February 16, per USTA Rule 12.02.
Changes to the stakes landscape in 2017 include:
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The addition of the Pegasus Series for three-year-old pacers and trotters to be raced at Hoosier Park as an undercard event to accompany the Breeders Crown weekend.
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The Tompkins-Geers Stake No. 83 for three-year-old colt and filly trotters has moved from Tioga Downs to the Meadowlands in 2017. The Tompkins-Geers will join the Reynolds Stakes and the Stanley Dancer and Del Miller Memorials in forming a three-race lead-up to the 92nd Hambletonian.
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The Hambletonian Society handles the payments for the Tompkins-Geers and Reynolds as well as the Hambletonian itself. The Dancer and Miller are Meadowlands administered stakes.
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In 2017, The Landmark, W.N. Reynolds Memorial, and the Tompkins-Geers races for two-year-olds will be restructured as early closers that race in the year payments are collected. There will now be a single nomination fee per colt or filly due March 15, 2017 and a single sustaining fee due May 15 2017, payable to the Hambletonian Society should you wish to participate in the race(s). The entrance fee to start in any division of the races will apply.
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The W. N. Reynolds No. 63 for three-year-old colts and geldings and filly pacers has been cancelled for 2017.
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The Meadows Maturity Trot at the Meadows Racetrack and Casino has also been cancelled.
Click here for the stakes calendar.
All the forms for the stakes listed below can be found by clicking this link.
The Hambletonian Society services more than a hundred of harness racing’s richest and most prestigious events and provides one-stop shopping for your staking needs. The website contains all the tools and information necessary to stake your horse yourself. All information pertaining to these races – racing conditions, payment forms and much more information – is now available online at hambletonian.com or by calling the society offices at 609-371-2211.
In all cases only ONE cheque (U.S. FUNDS) is ever necessary for each of the four payments periods (i.e.: February 15, March 15, April 15 or May 15).
All races with February 15 payments due:
Delvin Miller Adios (and Adioo Volo Filly Division)
Arden Downs Stakes
Battle of Lake Erie
Breeders Crown
Cane Pace (and Shady Daisy)
The Carl Erskine
Centaur Stakes
Circle City
Cleveland Trotting Classic
Courageous Lady Filly Pace
Currier & Ives Trot (and Filly Trot)
Dan Patch
Dayton Pacing & Trotting Derbies
Dexter Cup (and Lady Suffolk Trot)
Hambletonian (and Hambletonian Oaks)
Hambletonian Maturity (four-year-old trotters)
Hoosier Park Pacing Derby
The Horseman
Jennas Beach Boy
Kentuckiana Stallion Mgt. Filly Pace & Trot (two-year-old fillies)
Keystone Classics three-year-olds
Landmark Stakes three-year-olds
Liberty Bell Early Closer three-year-olds
Matron Series
Messenger Stakes (and Lady Maud)
Miami Valley Distaff
Monument Circle
Pegasus Series (new for three-year-old trotters and pacers)
Progress Pace
W. N. Reynolds Memorial
Art Rooney Pace (and Lismore Filly Division)
John Simpson Memorial
The Crossroads of America (three-year-old filly trotters)
The USS Indianapolis Memorial (three-year-old filly pacers)
Tompkins Memorial & Geers
Yonkers Trot
Northfield Park Reminds Horsemen of February 15 Nominations
A reminder to horsemen that nominations are due by February 15 (postmarked) for Northfield Park’s three major stakes events:
- The $200,000 (Guaranteed) Battle of Lake Erie (Open Pace), to be raced Saturday, June 3;
- The $175,000 (est.) Cleveland Trotting Classic (Open Trot), to be raced Saturday, July 1; and
- The $125,000 (est.) Courageous Lady (3YO Filly Pace), to be raced Saturday, October 14.
The Hambletonian Society will handle the nominations for all three of these events. More information is available at hambletonian.org.
Also, note that Northfield’s premier event, the $300,000 (Guaranteed) Carl Milstein Memorial (3YO Open Pace), to be raced Saturday, Aug. 12, will be an Invitational – no payments are needed. Owners and trainers of top three-year-old pacers who wish to race in the Carl Milstein Memorial are urged to contact Northfield’s Exec. V.P. of Racing & Simulcasting Dave Bianconi at [email protected] as the 2017 season progresses.
(Northfield Park)
Delaware (OH) Grand Circuit Sustaining Payments Due
Sustaining payments for the sophomore classics Little Brown Jug (three-year-old colt pace), Jugette (three-year-old filly pace), Old Oaken Bucket (three-year-old open trot) and the Buckette (three-year-old filly trot) are due February 15. These payments are for foals of 2014.
The Little Brown Jug and Old Oaken Bucket will be raced Thursday, Sept. 21 and the Jugette and Buckette on Wednesday, Sept. 20.
The 2016 Little Brown Jug attracted 11 entries and went for a record purse of $577,000, making the 71st edition of the pacing classic the third richest sophomore colt pace last year. The 2016 purse was boosted thanks to an allocation from the Ohio Harness Horsemen’s Association’s portion of the video lottery terminal revenue. The eventual Canadian Horse of the Year, Betting Line, captured the 71st Jug in dominating fashion with miles of 1:50.4 and a world record 1:49.
The 2016 edition of the $239,400 Jugette featured L A Delight, who defeated eight rivals. Last year’s Old Oaken Bucket and Buckette were contested for $122,500 and $86,200, respectively.
The 2017 Delaware Grand Circuit meet will continue to feature five days of racing (Sunday, Sept. 17 through Thursday, Sept. 21). Monday’s card will have a special 3 p.m. post. Sunday and Tuesday will go postward at 1 p.m. The Jugette and Jug cards will retain their traditional 11 a.m. start time.
For more information, please click here.
Make cheques payable and send all entries to: The Delaware County Fair, Tom Wright, P.O. Box 1560, Powell, OH 43065.
(Little Brown Jug)