Unbeaten two-year-old Every Way Out debuts for his new connections in one of four $100,000 New Jersey Sire Stakes (NJSS) freshman finals at The Meadowlands on Friday (July 15).

The pacing colts come up first in race two and the road to the title goes through Every Way Out. An easy winner in both preliminary legs including a sharp 1:55 effort in his last, Every Way Out faces just five rivals for new connections this week.

Previous owner Aaron Lambert sold the colt between starts to the partnership of Howard Taylor, Abe Basen, Ed Gold and Tom Lazzaro. Dylan Davis takes over the conditioning and Tim Tetrick is back in the bike from post six in the final.

The fourth race is composed of ten colt trotting prodigies seeking the state crown. Of the three prelim winners, both Hammer Time and Fly On paired a win with a third place finish for their dual efforts while New Jersey Viking had the week off after his leg one success.

Trainer/driver Ake Svanstedt had New Jersey Viking ready to win in the first leg off a single qualifier. After letting the dust settle around the first turn, Svanstedt moved his charge to the front on the backstretch and the colt responded with a 27.2 end to a 1:55.4 mile. With his final berth secure, the son of Muscle Hill from Hall Of Wishes was held out of leg two.

New Jersey Viking has drawn post three on Friday. He carries the hopes of Meadowlands Chairman Jeff Gural via his nom de course Little E, LLC and his partners Knutsson Racing, familiar as the owners of the great Sebastian K.

The trotting fillies are a dynamic group of ten that will settle the issue of who’s the fairest of them all, Garden State style, in the sixth race.

Checkmate Time is a slight favourite over Ariana G, based on her pair of leg wins over the latter’s single successful appearance in the stakes.

Checkmate Time has been impressive right from the start and showed some grit last week battling her way past a stubborn Waffle Cone to get the 1:55 win. She seems to do her best work following and Scott Zeron has been assigned to sort out a winning trip by trainer Dennis Laterza for owner/breeder Roy Dobbins.

Ariana G is also a homebred, racing for the interests of Marvin Katz and Al Libfeld. By Muscle Hill from Cantab It All, she’s a sister and barn mate in the Jimmy Takter stable to Hambletonian Oaks contender All The Time who won this race last year. Ariana G was rated kindly in her leg one win by Yannick Gingras before sprinting home in :28 for the 1:58.2 record.

Pacing fillies will wrap the NJSS races in the eleventh race where Livinginthedream will command respect from her eight female rivals. She won both legs at a jog, forwardly placed in each by driver Marcus Miller and has drawn the rail for Friday’s race. Trainer Erv Miller bred and owns the If I Can Dream lass with partner Ron Michelon.

To view the entries for Friday night's card, click the following link: Friday Entries - Meadowlands.

(with files from The Meadowlands)