Regardless of whether you liked Its Academic in Saturday night’s $40,000 featured Open 1 for trotters at The Meadowlands or you didn’t, it would have been tough to think that in a field that included Hillexotic, Lovedbythemasses, Inaminute Hanover, Ahundreddollarbill and Delayed Hanover that the Ron Burke trainee would be sent to the gate as the prohibitive 1-5 choice.
A violent thunderstorm that hit Northern New Jersey Saturday night forced racing at The Meadowlands to be canceled after only seven of the 14 races on the program had been contested.
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Some of harness racing’s top three-year-olds of last season Treacherous Dragon, Niki Hill, Bythemissal, Fashion Schooner and Pretender will begin their four-year-old campaigns on Saturday, April 22 in the first of two weekends of New Jersey Breeders Maturity races for pacers and trotters at The Meadowlands.
After winning New Jersey Sire Stakes championships earlier this year at The Meadowlands, three-year-olds Fashion Schooner and Pretender will return to The Big M on Friday hoping to add to their collections of trophies for state-sired trotters.