Meadowlands: Extreme heat forecast forces changes to this week's racing schedule
Due to the forecasted heat advisory this week the Meadowlands Racetrack has modified its racing schedule.
webmasterJun 29, 2026
Due to the forecasted heat advisory this week the Meadowlands Racetrack has modified its racing schedule.
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Jeff O’Connor said the first time he cashed a bet on a horse race was at Off-Track Betting in upstate New York and the race he bet on was at Aqueduct. That was 36 years ago.
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The asset that won the Hanshin Stakes for Nu What’s New on Sunday at Churchill Downs is as old as American dirt racing – speed.
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Highway Harmony left her forever mark on Aqueduct in winning Sunday’s $150,000 John Hettinger Stakes for New York-bred females, running the six furlongs in a course-record 1:06.44 in the final stakes race to be run here.
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In a flying finish, Blessed Flyer was up by a head at the wire for a $65.82 upset in the 125th running of the $225,000 Bashford Manor, one of two stakes for 2-year-olds on Sunday's closing day of the spring-summer meet at Churchill Downs.
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Meilani gutted it out in the final furlong to land Sunday’s $101,000 Alywow Stakes while giving trainer Kevin Attard his fourth winner on the Woodbine card.
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Deep Flame proved more than ready for a jump from maiden racing to graded-stakes competition, breezing to a 5 3/4-length victory Sunday at Churchill Downs in the Grade 3, $250,000 Maxfield Stakes.
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Three people still active in the practice of training Thoroughbred racehorses have housed a Horse of the Year in their barn four times, but if the 2026 season ended today, Steve Asmussen would become the only one with five.
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El Potente, the winner of two Grade 3 races at a mile on turf since the beginning of 2025, is on schedule to start for the first time since early March in the Grade 2 Eddie Read Stakes at Del Mar on July 26.
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A fast workout by Sweet Azteca at Santa Anita on Sunday is likely to result in a start in Saturday's Grade 2 Great Lady M. Stakes at Los Alamitos, a race she has won the last two years.