Peter Haughton Memorial

Eliminations for the pair of signature freshman races at the Meadowlands, the Peter Haughton and Jim Doherty Memorials, were contested on Friday night at the Big M and Jimmy Takter was the human star.

The 2016 Hambletonian Day card at The Meadowlands Racetrack in East Rutherford. N.J., loaded with a number of major stakes and high-profile competitors, is now in the books.

Jimmy Takter-trained two-year-old trotters dominated Friday night's (July 29) eliminations for the Peter Haughton Memorial and Jim Doherty Memorial at Meadowlands Racetrack.

The 2015 Hambletonian Day card is complete at The Meadowlands Racetrack in East Rutherford. N.J., and Trot Insider provided live recaps throughout the stakes-packed card.

The freshman trotters geared up for the first round of their major stakes on Friday night at The Meadowlands. Twenty-four fillies went behind the gate in three eliminations of the Jim Doherty Memoria...

“I think great horses put off a little bit of an aura. I think this horse had that kind of presence about him when we looked at him.”

Hambletonian Day has concluded with harness racing's brightest stars competing on a stellar stakes-packed program at Meadowlands Racetrack in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

“This is four weeks [of racing] in a row and he’s never done that before. It’s very different for him. But I’m not worried because he felt so good in the last race.”

“I’m very excited. She’s a really nice filly. She’s the kind of filly that if things work out, she’s got the talent to get there.”

Peter Haughton Memorial and Merrie Annabelle hopefuls invaded Meadowlands Racetrack on Friday evening to compete in eliminations for the Hambletonian Day stakes, with one two-year-old setting a new tr...