Harness: Breeders Crown supplements and entries fast approaching

The entry box for supplements to the 3-year-old and older Breeders Crown races and for all eligible horses to declare in to the $7 million year-end championship events at Meadowlands Racetrack closes next week.

Supplemental entries for 3-year-old and open events are due and payable by 12:00 noon [EDT], Monday, Oct. 14, at the Meadowlands race office in East Rutherford, N.J. There are no supplements for 2-year-old races.

Supplemental declaration amounts are listed below:

Supplement is 12% of advertised purse

$600,000 3-Year-Old and Open Pace & Trot events - Supplement fee $72,000.

$400,000 Open Mare Pace & Trot events - Supplement fee $48,000.

The entrance fee is included in the supplemental amount. The percentage of the supplement added to the purse is determined by The Hambletonian Society.

This one-time supplemental payment also makes a horse eligible to all subsequent years’ Breeders Crown events under the normal schedule of payments.

All eligible Breeders Crown horses enter on Tuesday, Oct. 16 by 9:00 a.m. Two-year-olds will have eliminations on Friday, Oct. 19, on a rare Meadowlands day card with a post time of 12:30 p.m. All 3-year-old and up events that require eliminations will be held on Saturday night, Oct. 21. Eligible 3-year-olds have the option of entering the sophomore event to which they were nominated or an Open event.

You can access the Meadowlands Condition Sheet here:

http://horsemen.ustrotting.com/conditions/sheet.cfm?condition_sheet_id=94396

All eliminations will race for a minimum of $25,000.

If there are eliminations, post positions in the final will be determined by an open draw with the exception that elimination winners, in an order determined by lot, will draw for post positions number one (#1) through six (#6) in the final. All other finalists will be placed in an open draw for the remaining post positions. Any horse(s) that receive a bye into the final will be in the open draw for post positions in the final. The two Win and You’re In horses (Champagne Problems and Maryland) for the freshman Trot divisions skip the eliminations and draw for posts 1-6 in the final. The winner receives 50% of the purse but all horses that start in the final receive money.

All 2-Year-Old Breeders Crown races will be held Friday, Oct. 25, with a post time of 6:20 p.m. [EDT].

All 3-Year-Old and Open Breeders Crown events will race Saturday, Oct. 26, also with a post of 6:20 p.m. [EDT]

For more information and racing conditions click: Breeders Crown Conditions 2024.

-edited release (Moira Fanning/Hambletonian Society)