Trot Insider has consolidated all of the press releases from the North American harness racing industry pertaining to stakes and nomination payments which are due on or around February 15, 2012
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Additional notices and releases will be added to this notice once they are received.
The reminders and links to all of the releases appear below.
Standardbred Canada would like to remind owners and trainers that stakes payments are due on or before Wednesday, February 15, 2012.
Stakes payments can be paid with a credit card using SC Stakes Online.
Payment information and stake conditions can be viewed on the Online Stakes Guide by clicking here.
A generic stakes form can be used to submit payments by mail. It can be located by clicking here.
Click here to view the SC stakes payment notice in its entirety.
(Please note that SC Field reps are not allowed to accept stakes payments, as they must be either mailed to SC or dropped off in person.)
The Ontario Sires Stakes Administration would like to remind horsepeople that the deadline for OSS three-year-old sustaining payments is fast approaching.
Click here to view the OSS release.
Closing February 15 nomination payments for the Woodbine Entertainment Group’s major 2012 standardbred stakes events, which include the $1.5-million Pepsi North America Cup and the $1-million Canadian Trotting Classic, as well as the sustaining payments for the 2012 Simcoe, Simcoe Filly and SBOA stakes events for three-year-olds, are coming due.
Click here to view the WEG release.
The Raceway at The Western Fair District wishes to remind horsepeople that an important deadline is fast approaching for nominations to the track’s two signature events.
Click here to view the release.
Nominations for Kawartha Downs' first added money event of 2012 are coming due.
Click here to view the release.
The race office at Rideau Carleton Raceway has announced that the deadline for nomination payments to the Frank Ryan Memorial Trot and the Des Smith Classic Pace are due Wednesday, February 15, 2012.
The initial payment deadline for eligibility to more than 119 stakes events, headlined by the $1.7-million Hambletonian at the Meadowlands Racetrack and the $6-million Breeders Crown events at Woodbine Racetrack is fast approaching.
Payments for all Hambletonian-Society serviced stakes must be postmarked by midnight on Thursday, February 16 per USTA rule 12, section 4.
Click here to view the release.
Sustaining payments for the 67th Little Brown Jug and the 42nd Jugette are due February 15. These payments are for foals of 2009.
Sustaining payments are also due February 15 for the Old Oaken Bucket Three-Year-Old Open Trot and the Buckette Three-Year-old Filly Trot. Also, nominations for the Winbak Farm Pace for four-year-olds and up, Delaware Open Series and the Ohio Breeders Championships are due February 15.
Click here to view the release.
The February 15 deadline for New Jersey Sire Stakes first sustaining payments is the last chance for owners of New Jersey-sired two-year-old and three-year-old pacers and trotters to be kept eligible to the 2012 Premier and Green Acres racing programs.
Click here to view the release.
The Meadowlands Racetrack would like to remind horsemen that nominations are due February 15 for the 2012 Early Closing program and the Meadowlands Pace.
Click here to view the release.
Sustaining payments for the Charles I. and Helen Smith Trotting Classics are due on February 15, 2012.
Click here to view the release.
The Pennsylvania Harness Racing Commission has announced that the deadline for registering mares due to foal in 2012 and qualifying for the 'PA-sired' and PA–bred' category in the PA Breeders Award program has been extended until February 15, for this one year only.
Click here to view the release.
Nomination fees for the Battle of the Brandywine, the Colonial, and the Valley Forge are due at the Harrah’s Chester race office by February 15.
Click here to view the release.
Balmoral and Maywood Park would like to remind horsemen that nomination payments are due on February 15 for several big three-year-old stakes events and the American National aged stakes.
Click here to read the Balmoral/Maywood release in its entirety.