The Meadowlands will be buzzing on Thursday morning as the New Jersey oval hosts 17 qualifiers

. With many of the big money races just around the corner, it comes as no surprise to see a wave of last year’s stars resurfacing.

Honorable Daughter, who capped off a brilliant season in the two-year-old trotting filly ranks for trainer Larry Remmen, will make her first start of the season in tomorrow’s fifth qualifier. The Malabar Man miss assembled a 9-1-0 record in her 11 starts as a freshman, banking more than $835,000 in the process.

Twist N Clout, who captured last year’s $175,000 NJSS final for two-year-old pacing fillies, makes her second appearance of the season in tomorrow’s ninth qualifier. Joe Holloway campaigned the Western Ideal filly to a 5-1-1 record last year. She stuffed away more than $506,000 in earnings, thanks in part to her second-place finish in the $700,000 final of the Breeders Crown.

Hawaiian Drink, who notched her richest payday following a 1:53.2 victory in last year’s $585,000 final of the Three Diamonds at Woodbine Racetrack, will earn her first charted line of the season in tomorrow’s tenth qualifier. The daughter of I Am A Fool, who now hangs her harness bag in the barn of trainer Joe Anderson, went 8-for-13 last year.

Straight Shooting and Schoolkids, who both remain eligible to this year’s Pepsi North America Cup, will face the starting gate in tomorrow morning’s twelfth qualifier.

Straight Shooting, a Casie Coleman-trained son of Western Terror, went 3-for-8 last year while banking in excess of $222,000. In his rookie season he captured the $100,000 Metro Pace consolation and the $193,000 Nassagaweya Stakes at Mohawk Racetrack.

Schoolkids went 7-for-14 as a juvenile thanks in part to his second-place finish in the final of last year’s $170,000 American-National. He also nabbed a third-place cheque in the final of last year’s $257,850 Matron Stakes.

Southwestern Dream will headline the fifteenth qualifier for trainer Bruce Saunders, who has already watched the four-year-old son of Cambest score upset wins in the finals of this year’s $84,000 Aquarius Series and the $132,000 Four Leaf Clover Series at The Meadowlands.

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