Stallion Eligibility

Harness racing at The Meadowlands

Meadowlands Releases 2024 Stallion Exclusion List

February 13, 2024

Meadowlands Racetrack, Tioga Downs and Vernon Downs has released an updated list of stallion offspring excluded from stakes events at racetracks owned by Jeff Gural in accordance with its Stallion Res...

Breeders Crown Introduces Foreign Stallion Fee

February 09, 2022

The Hambletonian Society, which owns and administers the $6.7 million Breeders Crown year-end championship series, has created a special stallion fee deadline that will provide eligibility to the Bree...

Off and trotting at The Meadowlands

'Gural Rule' Revised

February 07, 2022

Meadowlands officials have announced a revision to the Stallion Restriction Condition (SRC), also known as the "Gural Rule," effective immediately. From 2022 forward, horses four years of age and olde...

Gural On Stallion Rule, McKee

February 07, 2017

On Tuesday, February 7, racetrack operator Jeff Gural issued a clarification regarding the stallion restriction condition commonly known as the ‘Gural Rule,’ and commented on Sam McKee, the Meadowland...

Stakes Drop Gural's Stallion Rule

Trot Insider has learned that the two stakes administrators that required stallions to race at age four in order to have foals eligible to their stakes races have made decisions to drop the requiremen...

Rule Set For 4YO Stallion Eligibility

The official language designed to exclude the progeny of four-year-old stallions --- absent meeting one of the listed exemptions --- from stakes races at the new Meadowlands, Tioga and Vernon Downs ha...