Kindergarten Stakes

Be Perfect BG winning at Meadowlands Racetrack

Undefeated Be Perfect BG Wins New Jersey Sire Stakes Final

August 02, 2025

Canadian campaigned Be Perfect BG kept her undefeated record intact with a devastating 1:50.1 score over six rivals in the $246,575 New Jersey Sire Stakes final for two-year-old pacing fillies on Frid...

Legendary Hanover

Meadowlands Announces 2025 Stakes Schedule

January 04, 2025

The Meadowlands announced on Saturday, Jan. 4 that its 2025 stakes season will offer more than $18 million USD in purses to the connections of competing horses in both Grand Circuit and New Jersey res...

Papis Pistol winning at Meadowlands Racetrack

Papis Pistol Fires For DePinto

November 07, 2024

For much of this season, trainer Sam DePinto told people that his two-year-old male pacer Papis Pistol was going to put it all together one day and go a big mile.

Maryland and Dexter Dunn

Kindergarten Classic Finals Set For Saturday

November 07, 2024

While the Breeders Crown is now in the rearview mirror, the 2024 stakes action is anything but concluded at The Meadowlands, as just two weeks after hosting the 12 Crown events, The Big M is back this...

Reckless Abandon winning at The Meadowlands

Weather Wreaks Havoc At Meadowlands

August 03, 2024

A 40-minute delay before the start of the program due to intense thunderstorms, another 40-minute delay due to an inquiry involving several horses, and, finally, a power outage that knocked out a port...

Ascendance winning at The Meadowlands

Ascendance Repeats In Kindergarten Series

The term ‘ascendance’ is synonymous with dominance. It just so happens that trainer Linda Toscano has a two-year-old pacing filly by the same name who lived up to that synonym on Friday night, July 5 ...

Harness racing at Meadowlands Racetrack

Big M Back With Kindergarten Stakes

October 19, 2023

Live harness racing at The Meadowlands has been on hiatus for the last five weeks, but the action returns to the New Jersey oval on Friday, Oct. 20 and will continue every Friday and Saturday through ...

Kindergarten Showdown On The Horizon

October 26, 2019

Rocknificent and Hen Party won their respective divisions of the sixth and final leg of the Kindergarten Classic for two-year-olds Friday night at the Meadowlands, setting up what should be an interes...

'Jackpot' Players Cash Big At Big M

It was a night for the bettors at the Meadowlands on Friday (July 13), with big carryovers in the 50-cent Pick-5 and late 20-cent Jackpot Super High-Five, as well as a third straight 50-cent Pick-4 th...

Alagna Wins Four; Milestone For McCarthy

Trainer Tony Alagna is undoubtedly hoping he can carry his momentum from one night to the next.

Wildflower In 91-1 Kindergarten Upset

October 31, 2015

In addition to the annual Turn Back the Clock races and the Four One One for grey pacers, Vernon Downs hosted the finals of the Kindergarten Classic Series -- worth a combined $366,000 -- on Saturday ...

Kindergarten Finals Set For Saturday

October 29, 2015

The Kindergarten Trotting Classic series for freshman fillies and colts will come to a conclusion with finals on Halloween night (Saturday, October 31) at Vernon Downs.

Tetrick Doubles In Kindergarten Prelims

October 23, 2015

A quartet of $10,000 Kindergarten Classic preliminary events headlined Friday (October 23) evening's trotting program at Vernon Downs, and driver Tim Tetrick made the absolute best of both his drives ...