A number of talented performers peppered the Friday (May 5) qualifying session at The Meadowlands, with both returning stars from 2022 and potential emerging stars for 2023 making waves with their efforts.
Trainer Annie Stoebe had never even heard of harness racing eight years ago she was a rodeo competitor from Montana (think Yellowstone). Owner Lynn Curry groomed Standardbreds at The Meadows in the late '60s, and then took a 52-year hiatus from the game. This year, on Hambletonian Day, the pair teamed up to win the $355,000 Jim Doherty Memorial with their star trotting filly, Instagram Model.
It was three weeks ago on Hambletonian Day that Instagram Model came from off the pace to take the $355,000 Jim Doherty Memorial in a lifetime-best 1:53, so it came as no surprise when the daughter of Chapter Seven-Check Out Trixie won a $20,000 division of the Kindergarten Series for two-year-old trotting fillies at The Meadowlands Thursday night (Sept. 1) as the mile oval kicked off an eight-card September “mini meet”.