Kindergarten Classic

Hammering Hank Pounds Out Kindergarten Win

November 13, 2021

Thundering to the top approaching the half, Hammering Hank and driver Dexter Dunn won the $238,700 Kindergarten Classic Final for two-year-old pacing colts and geldings Saturday night (Nov. 13) at The...

Niki Hill Reigns In Kindergarten Classic

November 13, 2021

In the hangover from the star campaign of Party Girl Hill, the duo of owner Tom Hill and trainer Chris Ryder continue to ride their second wave of pacing filly power with the Always B Miki debutante N...

Kindergarten Classics Complete

November 13, 2021

Freshmen faced off on Saturday night (Nov. 13) in the Kindergarten Classics at The Meadowlands. A total of four finals — one for each division of two-year-old — pinned some of the division's top compe...

Fast As The Wind Breezes To Kindergarten Crown

November 13, 2021

Driver Dexter Dunn may have been locked for life with Fast As The Wind around the final turn, but just enough room opened at the pylons for the 3-2 favourite to skim through and nail the 3-2 second ch...

'Crown' Champ Niki Hill Back In Action

November 11, 2021

Niki Hill returns to action Saturday (Nov. 13) in the $220,110 Kindergarten Classic Series championship for two-year-old female pacers at The Meadowlands, two weeks after her dominant triumph under ad...

Freshmen Set For Seven-Figure Saturday

November 11, 2021

Longtime Meadowlands fans might be feeling a bit nostalgic this weekend about a time long ago when the track hosted a handful of stakes races for two-year-olds and called the event “Million-Dollar Bab...

Kindergarten Classic To Draw Tuesday

November 07, 2021

The Meadowlands is set for finals and consolations of the Kindergarten Classic after hosting the fifth and final preliminary and the series' standings solidifying.

Pelling Proteges Prolific In Kindergarten

November 07, 2021

Trainer Brett Pelling has a strong pair of two-year-olds heading into next week’s Kindergarten Classic Series Finals, as his Treacherous Dragon and Hammering Hank recorded easy victories Saturday nigh...

Niki Hill Stays Unbeaten In Kindergarten

September 11, 2021

On a night that saw seven divisions of the Kindergarten Series for two-year-olds, Niki Hill was the most impressive winner Friday at The Meadowlands, scoring in 1:51.1 in the second leg for two-year-o...

Kindergarten In Session At Big M

September 09, 2021

When racing resumes at The Meadowlands on Friday night at 6:20 p.m., bettors have much to look forward to as seven highly competitive $20,000 divisions of the Kindergarten Series for two-year-olds of ...

Meadowlands Adds Kindergarten Leg

September 02, 2021

Reacting to a very short box for the weekend of September 3 and 4, to the point where the Reynolds Memorial two-year-olds stakes were moved from Tioga Downs to The Meadowlands to avert the cancellatio...

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2021 Kindergarten Series Dates Set

January 20, 2021

The Meadowlands has scheduled the legs of the popular Kindergarten Series for trotting and pacing two-year-olds where it is hoped they will best serve those nominating horses for 2021.

Kindergarten Classics Complete

November 08, 2020

The Meadowlands Racetrack played host to four Kindergarten Classic Finals on its Saturday (Nov. 7) card, with many from each division of freshman standardbred readying for the Fall Final Four in two w...