OWNED BY AND SERVICED BY: The Hambletonian Society, Inc.
FOR: Foals of 2021
TO BE RACED AT: The Open and the Oaks will be raced over the mile track at The Meadowlands (“Track”), East Rutherford, N.J., as awarded by The Hambletonian Society (“Society”). Both the final races (“Final”) of the Open and the Oaks will be raced during daylight hours on the same day. Elimination races, if necessary, will be held one week prior to the Finals.
TO BE RACED AS:
The $1,200,000 Hambletonian (Open): Saturday, August 3, 2024
Elims: Saturday, July 27, 2024
$600,000 Hambletonian Oaks: Saturday, August 3, 2024
Elims: Saturday, July 27, 2024
$400,000 Hambletonian Maturity (For 4-Year-Olds): Saturday, July 13, 2024
Seeding formula: Note: In accordance with the conditions and with the intention of making fields of equal caliber, the eliminations, if necessary, of the Hambletonian® Open and the Oaks will be seeded by the following procedure:
1. Horses will be sorted in the order of total money earnings based on the following formula: Total career money earnings will be considered -- but monies accumulated through the date of declaration during their three-year-old year and in their last six starts would be weighted twice as much as the monies earned during the two-year-old season. For example, if a horse earned $100,000 as a two-year-old and $200,000 as a three-year-old and $150,000 in his last six starts, his assigned value would be $800,000 ($100,000 + (2 x $200,000) + (2 x $150,000) = $800,000). These earnings would be based on USTA official money earnings at the time of declaration.
2. Horses will be assigned a rank (group) based on the above formula and the number of elimination heats. For example: If there are eighteen horses, there will be two elimination divisions. The horses with the highest and the second highest money earnings as calculated above will be assigned rank #1; horses three and four would be assigned rank #2; horses five and six would be assigned rank #3; down to horses seventeen and eighteen who would be assigned rank #9. Beginning with the 1st rank, at least half the field of each elimination division (five of nine horses in this example) will be determined by randomly sorting the horses of each group into a separate division. The remainder of the divisions will be determined by lot.
3. Horses either owned by common interests or trained from the same stable will be separated as much as possible.
No horse shall be permitted to race in the Open or the Oaks with Phenylbutazone (Butazolidin ™) or Furosemide (Salix™, formerly Lasix).
2024 Payment Schedule:
Payment Schedule:
Yearlings:
May 15: $25
August 15 Supplemental Yearling Nomination: $125
2-Year-Olds:
March 15: Colts $500/Fillies $250
3-Year-Olds:
February 15: Colts $2,000/Fillies $1,000
Hambletonian Entrance Fee: $15,000
Oaks Entrance Fee: $7,500
Filly Supplemental Declaration to the Hambletonian open division: $16,250 (the entrance fee [$15,000] plus the difference in previous stakes payments [$1,250])
November 15 Supplement for the E.T. Gerry Hambletonian Maturity: $2,000 for 3-year-old colts and fillies that were not eligible to the Hambletonian or Oaks
E.T. Gerry Hambletonian Maturity (for 4-year-olds):
November 15, 2023, Supplement: $2,000 for 3-year-old colts and fillies that were not eligible to the Hambletonian or Oaks
February 15, 2024, Sustaining Payment: Horses $2,000/Mares $1,500
February 15, 2024, Supplement: Horses $7,000/Mares $6,500 (Supplement [$5,000] plus sustaining payment) for horses and mares that were not made eligible to the Hambletonian, Oaks, or Maturity the previous year
Supplemental Entrance Fee: $50,000 due before regular entries (for horses with no previous Maturity supplements or payments made)
Entrance Fee: $8,000