Harness: Hambletonian Future Wager Pool No. 2 Opens
Round two for wagering on the 93rd Hambletonian winner opens at noon (EDT) Friday, July 20, and closes at 10 p.m. (EDT) on Sunday, July 22.
Bettors will get two more chances to pick the Hambletonian winner before the race is actually run Saturday, Aug. 4, at The Meadowlands Racetrack in East Rutherford, N.J.
Beginning at noon Friday wagering will open on the second of three pools. The first future pool attracted close to $10,000, and with several major preps in the books the front-runners for the $1 million Hambletonian have come into sharp focus.
Two divisions of the $181,000 Stanley Dancer Memorial at the Meadowlands last Saturday yielded a world-record performance by Six Pack and a return to the races for the Goodtimes winner Wolfgang.
Six Pack, owned by Ake Svanstedt Inc., Little E LLC, Stall Kalmar FF and Lars Berg was trained and driven to victory by Svanstedt in a world record for 3-year-olds male trotters of 1:50. The time shaved a fifth of a second off the old mark of 1:50 1/5 shared by Donato Hanover and Muscle Hill. The Dancer win also earned Six Pack the No. 1 spot on Meadowlands' announcer/analyst Ken Warkentin’s Road to the Hambletonian, and an appearance at No. 9 on the Hambletonian Society/Breeders Crown Top 10 Poll.
The horses in each of the pools will be listed in alphabetical order. The mutuel field will consist of the remaining horses eligible to the 93rd edition of America’s Trotting Classic, including fillies eligible to the Oaks. There are no supplements permitted to the Hambletonian or Oaks.
Wagering will be available at racetrack and online sites throughout North America and internationally until Sunday, July 22, at 10 p.m. (EDT) when the pool will close.
The minimum future wager is $1.00 and all future wagers are win wagering only. The winner of each pool will be determined by the official first-place finisher in the 2018 Hambletonian.
Further details available at PlayMeadowlands.com and Hambletonian.com.
2018 Hambletonian Future Wagering – Pool No. 2