Officials with the New Jersey Sire Stakes have sent out a notice in regard to New Jersey Sire Stakes and New Jersey Standardbred Development Fund payments that are coming due on February 15.
The deadline for the New Jersey Sire Stakes and Standardbred Development Fund’s first sustaining payments is the last chance for owners of two-year-old and three-year-old pacers and trotters to be kept eligible to the 2018 Premier Division and Standardbred Development Fund racing programs.
The NJSS Premier Division will be contested exclusively again at the Meadowlands Racetrack in 2018 starting in May/early June for three-year-olds and in late June/July for two-year-olds.
In the fall the competition will switch to the New Jersey Standardbred Development Fund series of races. The SDF is open to all horses sired by a New Jersey-based stallion as well as the offspring of mares who have resided in New Jersey for a minimum of 150 days, regardless of where the sire stands. Previous registration of the mare while she was in foal and a yearling nomination are required to establish eligibility. The SDF races will be held beginning in September at Freehold Raceway, the location of all races in the series.
The NJSS Premier Division’s first sustaining payment remains $300 for both two-year-olds and three-year-olds. The initial Standardbred Development Fund sustaining payment for both two-year-olds and three-year-olds continues at $100.
Also on February 15, a $650 supplemental 2017 yearling nomination (for foals of 2016) can be made for eligibility to the New Jersey Sire Stakes Premier Division and the SDF. Those fees are in addition to the sustaining payments for two-year-olds also due on February 15. The supplemental fee for the New Jersey Sire Stakes Premier division is $850 if the foal was produced by an out-of-state breeding.
The first two-year-old sustaining payments must be made in order to keep the horse eligible as a three-year-old in 2019 to both the Premier Division and the Standardbred Development Fund, even if the horse does not race in 2018 as a two-year-old.
Horsepeople are also reminded of the upcoming nomination for the Renaissance Pace for two-year-old pacers — open and filly divisions. The Renaissance will be raced in September at Freehold Raceway and is open to all horses that have been nominated to the Standardbred Development Fund. Sustaining fees of $700 for the Open Division and $400 for the Filly Division are due March 15.
Sustaining payment and supplemental nomination forms, as well as race dates and other information, may be found on the NJSS website (newjerseysirestakes.com).
All payments must be in U. S. funds. No late payments will be accepted and no billing notices will be mailed. Certified mail is strongly recommended to NJSS, P.O. Box 330, Trenton, NJ 08625.
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