The initial payment deadline for eligibility to more than 129 stakes events, headlined by the return of heat racing in the $1 million Hambletonian at the Meadowlands Racetrack and $6 million Breeders Crown events at Pocono Downs is fast approaching. The $500,000 Hambletonian Oaks will be raced with eliminations a week before the final.

New stakes that will be administered by the Hambletonian Society include the Fall Final Four, which consists of a quartet of races for two-year-olds: The Valley Victory, Goldsmith Maid, Three Diamonds and Governor's Cup. All four will be raced at the Meadowlands in November.

The Hambo Society will also service the Battle of Brandywine, the Colonial and the Valley Forge which will be raced in 2013 at Pocono Downs.

The Historic Stakes for two-year-olds are moving to Harrah's Philadelphia (formerly Chester). The Historic Stakes for three-year-olds will remain at Tioga Downs for 2013.

Payments for all Hambletonian-Society-serviced stakes must be postmarked by midnight on Saturday, February 16, per USTA rule 12, section 4.

The Hambletonian Society services 129 of harness racing’s richest and most prestigious events and provides one-stop shopping for your staking needs. Our website, hambletonian.org, contains all the tools and information necessary to stake your horse yourself.

Race conditions, payment forms and much more information is now available online. For more information call the society offices at 609-371-2211.

Races with February 15 payments due:

• Delvin Miller Adios & Adioo Volo Filly Division
• Arden Downs Stakes
• Battle of Brandywine
• Earl Beal Jr Memorial Trot for 3-year-olds
• Breeders Crown
• Cane Pace & Shady Daisy Filly
• Circle City for 3-year-olds
• Cleveland Classic & Courageous Lady Filly
• Colonial Trot
• Currier & Ives Colt & Filly Trot
• Dexter Cup & Lady Suffolk Filly Trot
• Goldsmith Maid
• Governor's Cup
• Hambletonian & Hambletonian Oaks Filly
• Max Hempt Memorial & James M. Lynch Filly
• Historic Series
• The Horseman
• Indiana Pacing Derby - 3 & up Free For all Pacers
• Kentuckiana Stallion Management Filly Trot & Pace
• Keystone Classics 3-year-olds
• Landmark Stakes
• Matron Stakes for three-year-olds
• Messenger Stake (Lady Maud)
• Monument Circle for 3-year-old Colt & Gelding Pacers
• Oliver Trotting Classic for 3-year-old Colt & Gelding Trotters
• Pride in Progress for 3 & up Free For All Trotters
• Progress Pace
• W. N. Reynolds Memorial Stakes
• Art Rooney & Lismore Filly Pace
• John Simpson Memorial Colt & Filly Stakes
• Three Diamonds
• Tompkins-Geers Memorial Stakes
• Valley Forge
• Valley Victory
• Yonkers Trot & Hudson Filly Trot

(Hambletonian Society)