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FREEHOLD RACEWAY OPENS
FOR SUMMER/FALL MEETING FREEHOLD, NJ - - Freehold Raceway, America’s oldest parimutuel harness track, will open with a 13 race card of live harness racing action when the raceway opens for its summer/fall meeting on Thursday afternoon. The meeting will be highlighted by the $300,000 (est.) Cane Pace and the $275,000 (est.) James B. Dancer Memorial. Some of the other major stakes events on the Freehold summer/fall schedule include: the $160,000 (est.) Shady Daisy, the $130,000 (est.) Battle of Freehold and the $110,000 Molly Pitcher. Races for New Jersey sired horses are well represented on the schedule. In addition to such renowned events as the Lou Babic final ($140,000 est.), The Harold Dancer final ($100,000 est.), the Helen Smith final ($90,000 est.), the Lou Babic filly final ($75,000 est.) and the Charles I. Smith final ($110,000 est.), Freehold will also host the New Jersey Sire Stakes fall championship series, which culminate in eight $85,000 guaranteed divisional finals for two and three-year-old trotting fillies and colts, and two and three-year-old pacing fillies and colts. Also, the Green Acres series features eight $35,000 (est.) divisional finals and there will be four open divisions of the New Jersey Futurity held at Freehold during the fall. As an added attraction on Opening Day, free t-shirts will be given to all patrons with the purchase of a Freehold live program, while supplies last. After an abbreviated three-day, Thursday through Saturday schedule for the opening week, Freehold will conduct live racing Tuesday through Saturday. First post for the meeting will be 12:30 p.m. and admission to daytime racing is always free of charge.
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