Meadowlands: Kindergarten Finals, Pick 6 carryover highlight weekend action

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If there’s one thing that’s consistent about The Meadowlands, it’s the track’s ability to offer patrons different options to not only get their action, but to go out and experience a good night’s worth of entertainment as well.

From an at-the-windows point of view, with the Breeders Crown at Harrah’s Hoosier Park having been contested last week, The Big M is ready to retake its spot as the industry’s handle leader, and there should be plenty of action this weekend at the mile oval, when racing takes place on Friday and Saturday with a first-race post time of 6:20 p.m.

Friday’s 14-race program features a pair of TrackMaster Series finals as well as the Fall Harvest Series final, and punters figure to be very appreciative that a pair of multi-leg wagers will be reinstating guaranteed pools that total $100,000.

There will be a $50,000 total-pool promise provided on both the Early 50-cent Pick-4 (which begins in race six) and Late 50-cent Pick-4 (race 10).

“In addition, there is a double carryover of $2,657 on the brand-new 20-cent Pick-8,” said Big M Chief Operating Officer and General Manager Jason Settlemoir. “The Meadowlands offers eight wagers every night that have had their takeouts reduced significantly to a low 15 percent. This makes our payouts higher, which returns more money to the horseplayers so they can stay in action.

“The Meadowlands caters to horseplayers with big fields and big pools, and we want our faithful to know that we are always thinking of them and that we very much value their business. The Big M presents another extraordinary weekend of entertainment, where racing, sports, food and fun provide the festive Big M fall atmosphere.”

Saturday’s card will mark the return of many of the drivers who make up the strongest colony in the sport, and those pilots will go at it in four Crawford Farms Kindergarten Series finals for 2-year-olds of each sex and gait, with those four dashes – plus one consolation – going for purses totaling $953,800.

There is a superstar participating in the colts and geldings trot, as Breeders Crown winner Karl, who defeated Mohawk Million champion T C I at Hoosier, will depart from post 10. A Kindergarten win would go a long way toward a possible divisional trophy for Karl, a son of Tactical Landing-Avalicious, who has won seven-of-eight starts, his only loss coming to T C I by a nose in the International Stallion Stakes at Lexington’s Red Mile.