With most divisional titles still in play as the Grand Circuit heads towards the Matron Stakes at Dover Downs, the spotlight turns shortly to the Meadowlands Racetrack and the $5.4 million 12-race Breeders Crown series.
It’s final decision time for foreign invitees, supplementals and entries for the Crown finals slated for Friday. Nov. 21 and Saturday, Nov. 22 in East Rutherford, NJ.
Invited foreign horses must declare by noon on Friday, Nov. 7.
Supplemental declarations for the three-year-old and open events are due and payable on Monday, Nov. 10, 2014 by 12:00 noon in the racing secretary's office [1-877-782-2537] at The Meadowlands. All amounts below are listed in U.S. dollars and payable as such. Click here for more instructions on supplementing:
Guaranteed Purse - Event - Supplement
$500,000 - 3-Year-Old Events - $62,500
$500,000 - Open Trot - $62,500
$400,000 - Open Pace - $50,000
$250,000 - Mare Pace - $31,250
$250,000 - Mare Trot - $31,250
There are no supplements for the two-year-old races. The starting fee is included in the supplemental amount.
A one-time supplemental payment makes a horse eligible to all subsequent years’ Breeders Crown events under the normal schedule of payments.
Horses eligible to the Breeders Crown events must enter by 9:00 a.m., Tuesday, Nov. 11, also at the Meadowlands race office. Eliminations, if needed, will occur on Friday, Nov. 14 and Saturday, Nov. 15, both nights starting at the regular post time of 7:15 p.m.
Elimination races, if necessary, will be raced for a minimum purse of $25,000 each on Friday, Nov. 14 and Saturday. Nov. 15. If an elimination is required because more than 11, but less than 14 horses are entered, there will be a single elimination to “qualify” only enough horses that can be accommodated by the number of positions in the front tier of the starting gate.
If there are eliminations, post positions in the Final will be determined by an open draw with the exception that Elimination winners in an order determined by lot, will draw for post positions number one (#1) through five (#5) in the final. All other finalists, including foreign invitees, will be placed in an open draw for the remaining post positions. Those horse(s) that receive a bye into the Final will be in the open draw for post positions in the Final.
Four Breeders Crown distaff events will be raced Friday, Nov. 21, and the remaining eight Breeders Crown finals will be raced on Saturday, Nov. 22. Both nights have a regular Meadowlands post time of 7:15 p.m. [EDT].
For more information and racing conditions visit www.Hambletonian.org, playmeadowlands.com or call 609-371-2211.
(Hambletonian Society/Breeders Crown)