After winning two of three starts at Yonkers Raceway, Tonys Mom shipped to The Meadowlands on Dec. 23 and was a good-looking, fast-closing second-place finisher in the feature coming from sixth with a quarter-mile to go. On Saturday (Jan. 14) night at The Big M, driver Jason Bartlett kept the Per Engblom student closer to the action and was rewarded with a victory in the featured $36,667 high-end conditioned pace for fillies and mares.
Yannick Gingras is being inducted into the Harness Racing Hall of Fame this July and he got his 2022 highlight reel off to a good start by getting his 8,000th win after guiding Bettors Donttell to victory lane in the sixth race.
Jim King Solomon had himself a big night at The Meadowlands on Friday (Jan. 14), taking the Martin Luther King Remembrance Race on an evening when the civil rights icon was honoured with a pair of dashes.
Before the start of Saturday night’s card at The Meadowlands, driver Dexter Dunn was named the United States Harness Writers Association’s Driver of the Year for a second-consecutive season in a virtual Dan Patch Awards ceremony that the entire sport could view on the internet or at any simulcast venue.
Then Dunn went out and showed why that considerable amount of hardware sits on his mantle.
The 31-year-old New Zealand product, whose 131 wins during 2020 led all Big M drivers, registered four scores on the 15-race program–after winning three on Friday–to seize control of the top of the Meadowlands’ standings with 15 victories in the early stages of the Winter-Spring-Championship Meeting.