When the 2023 season started, Tennessee Tom was not in the Burke Racing Stable. After one of the stable’s top prospects was injured, the search was on for a replacement.
East Rutherford, NJ – Meadowlands Pace morning brought with it another harness racing edition of Breakfast With The Babies sponsored by Jules Siegel’s Fashion Farms. Another overcast, muggy setting to begin with temperatures hovering near 80 degrees over a track listed fast but perhaps, at least at the start of the card, dulled by overnight
The final leg of the Ohio Sires Stakes for two-year-old filly trotters was sweet smelling for Rose Run Yolanda and Rose Run Yanae. Rose Run Yolanda won a leg for the third time this year while Rose Run Yanae was a first-time winner.
The Meadowlands Championship Meet escalates quickly with several important stakes this weekend.
Friday features the first leg of the New Jersey Sires Stakes (NJSS) for the sophomore set. The first of three eight horse $25,000 divisions for colts and geldings kicks off the card and will serve as the stage for the Meadowlands debut of the intriguing Trixton colt Cuatro De Julio.
A homebred, owned by legendary French horseman Jean Pierre Dubois as D Farm, LLC, Cuatro De Julio comes from humble beginnings. He began his career on the dusty Kentucky fair circuit where local horseman Al Efferstein patiently instilled early lessons while guiding him to several victories for trainer Marie Ortolan Bar.