Sunday night racing in February and March at the Meadowlands at 5:00pm in 2025!

[wizardofoz]

https://playmeadowlands.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/live-racing-calendar-2025.pdf   Oh baby!

[sledge hammer]

I used to love the Sunday matinees in the old building....1 pm post.

[kantseeback]

I used to love the Sunday matinees in the old building....1 pm post.

I also loved those Sunday matinee cards at M1 back in the 90's.
Even though the post times for this will be at 5pm it gets dark early so most of the races will be under the lights.

[Superfecta]

The Mighty M was the place to be for Sunday afternoon racing. Then a 10 minute drive down 17B to White Lake for Italian food at El Monaco. 

[Sunmoon 1219]

That’s huge !! Move that Freehold show from today up to the swamp!

[kantseeback]

The Mighty M was the place to be for Sunday afternoon racing. Then a 10 minute drive down 17B to White Lake for Italian food at El Monaco. 

I had a summer home for a few decades just up 17b in the Mongaup valley. I used to love those Sunday afternoon cards. For a while there were some decent horses up there, not great but decent.

It seemed that Peas of Work was in the feature on Sunday's for a while. Then the usual speedsters that ran out of gas at the 3/4 every week like Jetro and Jethro Bodine. Goalie Jeff did race once there as a 2yo in the 90's.

[bestbetter]

I have missed the Big m on Sundays... Just hope the big boys will be their...

[kantseeback]

I have missed the Big m on Sundays... Just hope the big boys will be their...

I remember the Sunday cards at M1 having less than stellar horses. NW1 or NW2 types. Shippers from all over even Monti.
I bet a lot of the Freehold stock will wind up on those Sunday cards.

[JL52]

I remember the same thing, Kantsee. Cheap trots and low level conditioned pacers.

[The Exporter]

Sunday nights in the winter? Horsemen traditionally build their barn schedules around Sunday, more specifically Sunday Night being a day off. Although, I do recall Liberty Bell having success with a very good card on Sunday Night.

[rainman2]

Sunday nights in the winter? Horsemen traditionally build their barn schedules around Sunday, more specifically Sunday Night being a day off. Although, I do recall Liberty Bell having success with a very good card on Sunday Night.

Pompano Park (RIP) did well too!!
FYI, look at what tracks raced Sunday nights over the years and their handles!! The results could be interspersed to see and discuss.

[Liberty Bell]

Pompano Park (RIP) did well too!!
FYI, look at what tracks raced Sunday nights over the years and their handles!! The results could be interspersed to see and discuss.

Sunday night cards at Meadowlands will be for cheap Freehold type horses, and alot of Meadowlands regular drivers will take the night off.

Brandywine Raceway used to also race on Sunday night's with great success. Sometimes they'd have a big-time driver come and drive in all the races. Their publicity guy was Colonel Dave Herman, who used to dress in loud flashy outfits and did a great job promoting the track.

[yonkersjeff]

     

        Every nite is junk racing at the Meadowlands.

[wizardofoz]

     

        Every nite is junk racing at the Meadowlands.

Where is it top notch every night Yonkers J? For the third time in the last four years, average daily handle at The Meadowlands exceeded $3 million. After $2,894,453 was wagered on Saturday’s 14-race card, action for the 88 programs contested during 2024 totaled $264,427,375, an average per card of $3,004,856. In addition, over the course of the year, betting bettered the $3-million mark on 46 occasions at the industry’s handle leader, meaning wagering exceeded that lofty plateau 52 percent of the time.

[wizardofoz]

The other major changes in the schedule is that they will NOT close on Hambletonian day as is tradition but will now race the entire month of August into mid-September.  The Monmouth TB meet at the Meadowlands might be 10 weeks on both the turf and the grass this year, from the mid-September through the end of November which will definitely affect the fall stakes season there, if there will even be one now.  Once the $1.6 million for Freehold is re-routed to the Meadowlands, additional race dates will be added as well.