Harness racing’s biggest day of the year will take place Saturday at the Meadowlands when the 86th edition of the $1.5 million Hambletonian for 3-year-old trotters headlines a stakes-filled card.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Mike Mitchell’s first winner at Del Mar, appropriately enough, was with a claimer.

Macadamian won a $12,500 claimer over six furlongs by 2 1/4 lengths on July 26, 1975, paid $3.20, and earned a purse of $3,575.

Mitchell was 27, and had three stalls, loaned by trainer Willard Proctor. At the time, Farrell Jones, for whom Mitchell once worked, was established as the track’s all-time winningest trainer.

DEL MAR, Calif. – In between major stakes races on the East Coast on consecutive weekends, trainer Bob Baffert has returned to Del Mar, where on Thursday he will try to put a hammerlock on the day’s featured seventh race, sending out both Awesomemundo and Toro Bonito in a second-level allowance for fillies and mares.

DEL MAR, Calif. - The $12,500 claim of Lordgivemealift from Saturday’s 10th race was voided by Del Mar stewards on Sunday because trainer Jeff Metz submitted three claims in the race, on his behalf or as agent for another trainer.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Jenny’s So Great got back to what she did best here on Monday and rewarded her connections with her first graded stakes victory in the $181,200 Royal North.

“She’s really only now found her stride,” said Greg De Gannes, who trains Jenny’s So Great for owners Bill and Vicki Poston. “She wants to be a sprinter on the turf.”

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - The first two legs of the Canadian Triple Crown, Woodbine’s Queen’s Plate and Fort Erie’s Prince of Wales Stakes, are preceded by ceremonial draws and take place amidst much fanfare. But the Breeders’, in a year such as this when there is no possibility of a Canadian Triple Crown winner, is a poor cousin and will simply be part of the regular Thursday afternoon draw at the race office.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Jomelo heads a promising group of 2-year-olds in Thursday’s seventh race at Woodbine, a maiden special scheduled for six furlongs on the grass.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Even-money favorite Almost Time came from well off the pace to score a convincing win over Trick of the North in the $50,000 B.C. Cup Classic at Hastings Monday. The Classic headlined a 10-race card that featured seven $50,000 stakes races restricted to B.C.-breds.

Notoriously upset Summer Song in the $50,000 Madamoiselle for fillies and mares at Northlands Park on Monday. She paid $14.40 to win.

Hammers Bullet, prominent throughout, ran down the pacesetting Big Blue Caboose for a three-quarter-length victory in Monday's $75,000 Manitoba Derby at Assiniboia Downs.

Trained by Clary Brinson, Hammers Bullet had checked in from Minnesota to finish third in the six-furlong Golden Boy and returned to capture the 1 1/16-mile Harry Jeffrey, which is the major local prep for the 1 1/8-mile Manitoba Derby for 3-year-olds.