Prospects are looking up for trainer Jenny Melander. Following her best year ever in 2017 Melander’s stable of 37-head looks to build on that success this year. With freshmen and sophomores still prepping for action, Melander sends out four from her trotting dominated stable at The Meadowlands on Friday night. Chapter Too, a 4-year-old New York-sired daughter of Chapter Seven, was purchased at last year’s Harrisburg action for $80,000. “The owners were looking for a mare they could breed but would like to race as well,” said Melander. “This mare has a lot of class. She raced in stakes in New York last year and I think she can do well at the local tracks.” Chapter Too drew post seven in the first race and Melander is happy with what she has seen so far from the mare previously trained by Mark Harder. “She does everything like a horse with class. She goes when you ask her and relaxes when you don’t,” said Melander. “We’re not going to stake her against the top mares but I think she can go through the classes.” The class on Friday night is just non-winners of 3 races and Chapter Too was able to get in because mares were permitted to win four races. Last year Chapter Too earned $142,574 culminating her season with a fourth-place finish in the New York Sire Stakes final. “I’m going to nominate her to the SOA Series at Yonkers,” said Melander, who enjoyed great success in that late closer in 2017. The SOA Bonus series begins in April. It’s been a long process for Melander to get Mr Lover to where she wants the veteran to be. “We bought him a few years ago at the Winter Sale,” said Melander. “He’s a massively big horse and he’s taken a little longer for us than we had hoped.” Mr Lover seems to be moving in the right direction now according to the trainer, who was pleased with his last few starts at the bottom level. Mr Lover is a career winner of $200K but still in search of his first win in 2018. Much like Chapter Too, My Cherry Pie is a 4-year-old that appears to have a very good upside. A winner against non-winners of $8,500 at The Meadowlands in her last start, the Donato Hanover-sired mare My Cherry Pie drew post six in the evening’s eighth race while moving up in class. “We missed much of her 3-year-old season,” said Melander of My Cherry Pie. “We got started late and were racing her back at Dover before going to The Meadowlands.” My Cherry Pie managed to win six races in 15 starts as a 3-year-old in 2017. The trainer is still hoping for a return to form for Meadowbrook Glider, her entry in race 10 on Friday night. Meadowbrook Glider drew post two in a race for non-winners of 4 pari-mutuel races or $65,000 lifetime. “He’s got speed but he’s a little goofy,” said Melander kindly of the 5-year-old making just his second start of 2018. After a breakout season in 2017 where her stable earned above $1.2 million, Melander is already off to a quick start this year helped on Tuesday by a training double that saw Golden Son and Ameliosi win at Dover. She’s training 10 2-year-olds for action and while non-specific about an individual, was pleased with where they stand heading into March. “They are stronger as a group than what I’ve ever trained in the past,” said Melander. “We’ve got some from Pennsylvania, New York, Indiana and a couple from Ohio.” Last year’s juveniles managed to include the Indiana Super Final champion All On Black, a winner of more than $200K during his first year on the track. “I didn’t stake him too much last year because there was enough to race for in Indiana,” said Melander of All On Black, a son of Swan For All that had the head-to-head advantage over Breeders Crown winner Fiftydallarbill in Indiana-bred races. “I’m pointing him for the first Sire Stakes races in May,” said Melander of All On Black, a winner in six of eight juvenile starts with a 1:54 2/5 record. “I’ve never had a 2-year-old go that fast.”