| | Harness Racing: The Meadows boasts two in Hambletonian |
 | | Buddy Stillings believes The Meadows already has earned bragging rights for the Hambletonian Saturday at the Meadowlands in East Rutherford, N.J. Infrequently represented in the most prestigious 3-year-old trotting race in the world, The Meadows this year has two hometown boys among the 10 starters. |
 | | Both Meadows horses did their final hard training -- miles in 2 minutes, 15 seconds -- yesterday, and Stillings and Paver, who is participating in his first Hambletonian, were pleased with their work and their conditioning. |
 | | The Stillings brothers have trained five Hambletonian starters for Davis since 1977, and Buddy Stillings said Pegasus Spur "is the best one of the whole bunch so far." The Spur Stable's previous best finish in a Hambletonian final was with Steeler Spur, who was seventh in 1996. |
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