All-Turf Meet at Meadowlands Gets Underway Sept. 23
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Eventual grade 1 winner Bleecker Street captures an allowance in 2021 at Meadowlands
Sixty-one horses (four of them alternates) were entered Sept. 20 for the opening six-race card of the Monmouth-at-Meadowlands all-turf meet that gets underway Friday, Sept. 23.
The nine-day meet will be held on Fridays and Saturdays from Sept. 23 through Oct. 22 with the exception of Saturday, Oct. 15, when Far Hills will feature its 101st steeplechase meet.
Post time for the Monmouth-at-Meadowlands cards is 7 p.m. ET. Six races will be conducted nightly.
The opening night's feature is a $45,000 allowance at a mile and a sixteenth. A field of nine has entered. Five of the six races on opening night will be at 1 1/16 miles. The first race is a five-furlong dash.
The highlights of the abbreviated meet are the $75,000 Honey Bee Stakes Oct. 7 and the $75,000 Born to Run Stakes Oct. 14.
Monmouth Park concluded its 60-day meet Sept. 18, with Paco Lopez winning his ninth riding title at the track and Claudio Gonzalez finishing atop the trainer standings.