If winning builds confidence there is no doubt that Beach Glass will be entering the $600,000 Meadowlands Pace final on Saturday (July 16) brimming with that quality. Following a powerful 5 1/4 length elimination victory, the colt from the last crop of Somebeachsomewhere has been installed as the 7-5 morning-line favorite in the 46th edition of the Meadowlands Racetrack's signature race. The Meadowlands Pace is the featured event on a spectacular 14-race card that includes nine additional stakes races and kicks off at 6:20 p.m. Among the highlights for fans is another appearance by recent Graduate final (1:46 1/5) and Roll With Joe (1:46) winner Bulldog Hanover, the only horse in harness racing history to post two wins under 1:47. He starts from post seven in the $500,000 William Haughton Memorial (Race 10). The key contenders for the Hambletonian and Hambletonian Oaks will prep in the Stanley Dancer (Races 4 & 6) and Del Miller (Races 2 & 3) while last year's top 3-year-olds do battle in the $432,000 Hambletonian Maturity (Race 11). ► Get FREE full-card Harness Eye PPs for Meadowlands Saturday + 10% REBATE from DRF Bets ► DRF Harness staff selections for all 10 Meadowlands Saturday stakes races ► Derick Giwner's full-card Meadowlands Saturday analysis Beach Glass could be an odds-on favorite when the field of 10 goes behind the gate at 10:44 p.m. in the 12th race on Saturday. The public confidence is certainly boosted not just by the eye-catching nature of his elimination win but also the allure that the 3-year-old hasn't scratched the surface of his abilities with just nine career starts, equalling fellow competitor Night Hawk and far less than most of their rivals. "He needed that mile," said trainer Brent MacGrath about Beach Glass, who will start from post six. "I would hope he has more in the tank since he's only had nine starts." Beach Glass winning his elimination by more than five lengths was impressive enough. That he accomplished the feat after being part of the early pace in a 25 2/5 opening quarter and 53 2/5 half made it even more impressive. "Mark [Macdonald, Greatest Ending] was screaming at his alongside of me and got mine a little too wound up. I had to re-move, but once he cleared he was nice and relaxed, and when I called on him in the last turn he took right off," said Gingras about the Schooner II Stable-owned colt. "I really love this horse and he just keeps getting faster and faster. I think he'll go even faster in the future." Certainly the one horse most expect to give Beach Glass a fight in the rich final is Night Hawk. Listed at 4-1 on the morning-line from post three with the team of trainer Brian Brown and driver David Miller behind him, the son of Betting Line was a hard-charging second as the 1-5 favorite in his Pace elimination. "Of course we'd all like to win [the elimination]. I'd like to win because it gives more confidence to the horse. He's racing really well but we haven't been in the right places," said Brown before addressing the thought that perhaps Night Hawk was bearing in through the stretch. "I didn't notice it but you're the third person to mention it. David got off the horse beaming about him. He came home in 25 4/5. I don't know if he was actually running in or the horse on the front was running out. You know how The Meadowlands is, every horse on the front comes out, so I don't know." Night Hawk also finished second in his North America Cup elimination and was never involved in the final -- where Beach Glass was second -- after chasing slow fractions from the back of the pack. While Brown, who trains the colt for Leeman Lombardo Stables, Joe Sbrocco, In The Gym Partners and Acadia Farms, is hoping for new tactics on Saturday, he understands that in-race decisions are far from easy. "I think [David Miller] will be more aggressive, that's my guess," said Brown. "I don't want to pay a price to be second at the half in 52 but I would like to see him closer and not be sitting sixth seventh or eighth in a 55 or 56 half. When I get there, I'll hand David the lines and shut up." Market Based and driver Dexter Dunn took an aggressive stance which resulted in a pocket trip and neck-long elimination win ahead of Night Hawk. The win was a nice about-face for a horse that had finished fourth, sixth and sixth in his most recent starts for trainer Nancy Takter. "Mine was a little tired and Dave [Miller] was coming pretty hard, but the line came up quick enough," said driver Dexter Dunn about the stretch drive. "I don't think he is 100% sharp yet as far as his conditioning," said Takter. "He definitely took a step forward, but he's been making breaks and we've been careful with him. Also, racing on a small track he hasn't been stretched out much this year. With this race and the one last week he should continue to move forward and hopefully gain a little confidence." Market Based (5-1), a son of Sweet Lou owned by Chuck Pompey, Edwin Gold and H&M Taylor Stable, starts from post four on Saturday with Dexter Dunn electing to stick here over Captain Cowboy (Scott Zeron, post one, 8-1), who he drove to a second-place finish behind Beach Glass last weekend. Lost in the shuffle of Night Hawk's late surge was Fourever Boy uncorking an identical 25 4/5 final quarter with a last sixteenth where he was clearly moving fastest of the bunch. The performance was a nice turnaround for the Sweet Lou colt after he sat a good trip and faded to seventh in the June 18 North America Cup. "He got a great trip in the North America Cup and just wasn't healthy," said trainer Tim Twaddle, who co-owns the colt with Micki Rae Stables LLC. "He had a high liver count. That will really slow a horse down and tire them out. Usually it takes weeks not days to get it right again." ► Sign up for our FREE DRF Harness Digest Newsletter Fourever Boy (10-1) will have regular driver Mike Wilder in the bike from post seven. Trainer Joe Holloway is hoping that Early Action's fourth-place elimination finish timed in 1:49 2/5 is the stepping stone the son of Huntsville needs to get back on track. The mile was the fastest the Val D'Or Farms and Theodore Gewertz-owned gelding has been since winning the Governor's Cup over the same track as a 2-year-old. "That was his best race of the year, which wasn't tough to do because before that he raced like crap," said Holloway bluntly about Early Action, who is fully recovered from throat surgery earlier this year. "He steered better and paced well through the wire. If Brian [Sears] puts him in play I can see him doing well because he seems to be rounding into form. The only thing that would disappoint me is if he is in position to win and doesn't perform." Early Action (8-1) leaves from post five in the final with Brian Sears listed to drive. Rounding out the field are Caviart Camden (Todd McCarthy, post two, 12-1), I Did It Myway (Andrew McCarthy, post 8, 10-1), Mad Max Hanover (Tim Tetrick, post 9, 15-1) and Captainryanmichael (Matt Kakaley, post 10, 20-1). As part of the stakes-filled program The Meadowlands is offering a $75,000 Guaranteed Pick 4 in race 5 and a $125,000 All-Stakes Pick 4 in the ninth race that ends with the Meadowlands Pace. All of the major events on the program will be shown live to a national television audience on Fox Sports 2 (FS2). The show will be broadcast from 8-11 p.m. (EDT).