The Mecca of the sport - the Meadowlands - looks to be shut down, if reports are to believed.
We'll wait for the announcement tomorrow to be sure, but if this is true, this could be pretty much the end of harness racing as we know it. Customers simply will not go to high takeout slots tracks like Chester for their harness racing fix. The Meadowlands, is was and always will be, harness racing.
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