Since Hambletonian Day, trainer Annie Stoebe has elected to freshen up some of her outstanding stakes trotting collection. Following almost four weeks on the sidelines, Friday marks a return to action for some of her top students at the Meadowlands. Elista Hanover, the Hambletonian Maturity champion, returns in the newly-christened Girl Power, a $117,500 event exclusively for 4- to 6-year-old mare trotters. Stoebe also has a pair of 2-year-old colt trotters that return to action after racing in the $225,000 New Jersey Sire Stakes championship on Hambletonian Day, with the highly-regarded Diabolic Hill looking to regain his winning form in the first of two $25,000 eliminations for the New Jersey Classic. "I gave them all some time off after Hambletonian Day," Stoebe said when asked about her returning collection. For Elista Hanover, the $181,000 Steele Memorial was a fifth-place finish that snapped a two-race win streak. "She had three tough races in-a-row and she was tired," Stoebe said, discussing an uncommon off race for the remarkably consistent 4-year-old daughter of International Moni. "I trained her a good trip last week and she's ready to race," said a confident Stoebe. Elista Hanover (post six) and driver David Miller will have to deal with what has become common for her this year, and that is an arsenal in this division sent out by trainer Ake Svanstedt. Svanstedt's stable has three horses in the Girl Power, with Warrawee Michelle (post two), Eteria IT (post three) and Dial Square S (post five) dominating the seven-mare field. Warrawee Michelle, second in the Steele, rebounded with a monster effort when trotting to a world-record 1:50 mile in the $100,000 Sebastian K at Pocono Downs on August 16. Steele champion M-M's Dream has been idle since her major upset victory on Hambletonian Day in the Steele. A 6-year-old by Swan For All, she trotted to a career-best 1:49 4/5 mile for trainer Ron Burke and driver Yannick Gingras, who guides the mare on Friday night. After a solid sophomore season, Date Night Hanover had not won a race this year until a 1:50 4/5 effort in a Kentucky Sire Stakes at The Red Mile on August 19. The daughter of Chapter Seven returns to the Meadowlands with post four. The Girl Power goes as race seven on Friday's Meadowlands program that is filled with New Jersey Classic elimination races for 2- and 3-year-olds in many divisions and preps in others. ► Sign up for our FREE DRF Harness Digest Newsletter Stoebe is excited to have Diabolic Hill back on the track and feels confident he'll bounce back following his first defeat in four career starts. "He kind of got lost out there once he got on the lead," said Stoebe, describing the Muscle Hill colt taking control of the $225,000 New Jersey Sire Stakes final for juvenile trotting colts and geldings but falling short on the wire to race winner Apex and Ardonne, who would go on this month to capture the lucrative William Wellwood Memorial at Woodbine Mohawk Park. "We gave him some time off and he's trained back strongly," said Stoebe of the $300,000 yearling purchase from last year's Lexington Selected sale that's already won in 1:54 this year and looked impressive doing so. "We're adding pop-out earplugs to give Andy (McCarthy) more options," said Stoebe of the notable change in equipment that will hopefully keep Diabolic Hill on his game. Diabolic Hill drew post two in the 12th race and first elimination where he will once again encounter Apex (post four), the Sire Stakes champion returning from Kentucky and a third-place finish in Kentucky Sire Stakes competition at The Red Mile on August 18. Trainer Ake Svanstedt sends out Nordic Dancer S (post six) in this division. The 2-year-old is a full brother to Hambletonian winner Nordic Catcher S and won for the first time in an overnight event on August 12 at Pocono in a 1:57 mile. Mega Shark (post five) goes in the second New Jersey Classic elimination carded as race 13 and Stoebe is hoping the colt will find better racing luck. "He drew outside in the Sire Stakes final and never got into the race," Stoebe said. "I think if he can get closer to the action, he'll be fine." Mega Shark has gotten a check in three of his four career starts. This elimination includes Rambo Hanover (post six), a Garden State stakes winner over the Meadowlands surface on August 15, handily in a 1:55 1/5 mile. Maga Hill returns to action for trainer Ron Burke and landed post two. A son of Muscle Hill, Maga Hill had a win and second in his two preliminary legs of the New Jersey Sire Stakes but tired on the lead in the rich final. Stoebe is hopeful that if all goes well with Diabolic Hill in this week's elimination and the final, the following week that the colt will head next to the Mohawk Million (September 20) at Woodbine Mohawk Park with the trainer saying a spot is assured.