Trainer Darran Cassar will send out three horses on Saturday night at the Meadowlands, with the homebred Write Me A Rose making his 5-year-old debut in the $25,000 Winners Over pace carded as race 10 on the 14-race program. Write Me A Rose, an Ontario-bred son of Sportswriter, has not raced since November when he captured a high-level conditioned race at Woodbine Mohawk Park in a snappy 1:50 2/5 clocking. "He's going to need some racing," said Cassar of Write Me A Rose. "He's the type of horse that thrives with more work, and hopefully he'll get more in the coming weeks." Write Me A Rose had a solid 4-year-old campaign, primarily in Ontario. "We started him early last year to get him ready for the Ontario Sire Stakes," said Cassar, who prepped the horse in New Jersey before sending him north where Rob Fellows handled the training. Write Me A Rose won nine races as a 4-year-old and banked more than $133K but returned home after the campaign. "The classes worked for him in Ontario," said Cassar. "He qualified decently a few weeks ago, and I was hoping to get him a race last week, but his class didn't fill. On Saturday Write Me A Rose landed post three in a field of razor-sharp horses. "I think he'll be at his best in three or four weeks," said Cassar, obviously aware of the conditioning advantages many in Saturday's field have. Write Me A Rose has only one lone qualifier where he finished his mile strongly but paced in just 1:55 2/5, probably five or six seconds slower than Saturday's contest is likely to go. Mad Max Hanover (post four) moves into Saturday's feature following a 1:48 2/5 powerhouse performance last week for trainer Jake Leamon. The 6-year-old by Always B Miki rides a two-race win streak into the event. For Once Inmy Life has won three of his four races this year for trainer Cory Stratton and returns to the mile track three weeks after capturing a high-level conditioned race at Yonkers. For Once Inmy Life drew post seven. ► Sign up for our FREE DRF Harness Digest Newsletter Trainer Ron Burke has bookends in the field with both Southwind Gendry (post one) and Act Fast (post eight) making their first pari-mutuel starts of the year. Those two both qualified in the same race on February 22, with Act Fast off by himself at the wire, winning by nine lengths in a 1:51 1/5 mile. A top 4-year-old a year ago, the Ohio-bred Act Fast earned $201K and posted a career-best 1:47 3/5 mile in a leg of the Graduate Series last June over the Meadowlands surface. The hard-hitting Dribbling Bi is making his seventh start in 2025 and has finished on the board in half of his starts to date. "He's an honest horse," said Cassar. "He can be a bit aggressive." Dribbling Bi finds a better spot than he's been in for a few weeks, landing post seven in Saturday's $10,500 seventh race, a non-winners of $5,000 in last 4 starts affair. "It's been tough for him," said Cassar. "He ran into a strong pair from the Burke stable and was overmatched." The drop in class should help with Dribbling Bi, a solid third in action last Saturday (February 22) against better company. Saulsbrook Hero is a newcomer to the Cassar stable and makes his debut in the 13th race, which is for horses with a Trackmaster rating of 74.5 or less. "When he came to me, he was a little sore, but he's gotten better," said Cassar. "It's hard to gauge him off of those Batavia lines." Saulsbrook Hero banked more than $150,000 as a 3 and 4-year-old back in 2021-2. "He was a pretty solid horse at Yonkers, so he's got some back class," Cassar said. "He should fit pretty well at this level." Cassar is currently conditioning 14 horses in his stable, with three 2-year-olds showing promise thus far. "I've got a Papi Rob Hanover, a Tall Dark Stranger and an Always B Miki," said Cassar. "They all are training well." On the sophomore front, Cassar sounded optimistic that a New Jersey-bred son of Cattlewash would emerge this year. "Twin Fury has definitely matured from 2 to 3," said Cassar. "He's bigger and stronger, and I'm hoping better." Twin Fury was sharp enough as a 2-year-old to reach the New Jersey Sire Stakes final, but then had the lights go out on him literally and figuratively. The original $240,000 final was cancelled due to a blackout, and the rescheduled event took place three weeks later, with Twin Fury getting the worst of it, racing parked from the start from post nine. "We sent him to the Metro," Cassar said about the lofty expectations, but Twin Fury had even less of a chance in those eliminations while coming from off-the-pace into a blistering final-half. "I'd say he's about three to four weeks away from qualifying, and we're pointing him towards the Weiss and then the New Jersey Sire Stakes," said Cassar.