HorseDoc® Dr. Gregory Beroza was onsite for probably the most thrilling night time in harness racing. Get all the small print right here.
Meadowlands Tempo Trophy. Photograph by GBeroza.
The 2025 Meadowlands Tempo was distinctive and thrilling for a lot of causes. The race was one other shoot-out of two super-competitive horses and drivers to find out the who would emerge victorious. This time it was the second place finisher within the North American Cup’s, Madden Oaks. Madden Oaks went in sporting #9 and at 5:2 odds, battling to take the lead away from present Meadowlands’ Tempo challenger #9, Prince Hal Hanover at 7:2 odds. This was Madden Oaks’s driver Braxton Boyd’s second try and win one in every of North America’s premier pacing championship races. On June 14th, he was unsuccessful in his try and take down North America’s greatest three-year-old pacer, Louprint on the 2025 North American Cup at Woodbine Mohawk Park Racetrack in Campbellville, Canada.
Louprint was a late scratch out of the Meadowlands Tempo because of an emergency surgical procedure to take away a testicle. His absence modified the strategic complexity of the race.
Previous to the race, we interviewed lots of these within the race and different distinguished Standardbred racing consultants on-site for his or her night time’s predictions. Interviewees included Hambletonian Society govt and retired Standardbred Corridor of Fame driver John Campbell, Madden Oaks’s coach Camerone Capone, and driver Braxton Boyd. We additionally interviewed Prince Hal Hanover’s coach and co-owner Dr. Ian Moore, Meadowlands Media and Fox Sports activities TV commentators Jessica Otten, Gabe Prewitt, Dave Little, Rachel Ryan, and notable others. Their feedback and speculations introduced the consensus down to 3 to 4 standout horse and drivers, whereas all agreed that anybody within the race had a shot for a profitable efficiency.
Prince Hal Hanover and Madden Oaks. Photograph by Lisa Photograph.
On the day of the race, Dr. Ian Moore’s #4, Princed Hal Hanover, crossed the wire first and was introduced because the winner. Nevertheless, there was an instantaneous inquiry requiring all bettors to carry their tickets. A prolonged inquiry ensued whereas the judges decided which horse was the winner. The video of the portion of the race in query was performed a number of instances in dwell time and gradual movement on the observe’s massive display. Madden Oak’s driver Braxton Boyd claimed to have been blocked from getting via his inside lane which was briefly blocked by Prince Hal Hanover’s driver Todd McCarthy. When requested if he thought he may have passed by Prince Hal Hanover within the stretch, Boyd’s reply was an emphatic “Completely.” The next inquiry and outcomes will eternally be memorialized in standardbred racing historical past books.
Inquiry intereference. Photograph courtesy of Meadowlands Media.
Madden Oaks was ultimately acknowledged because the 2025 Meadowlands Tempo winner and Prince Hal Hanover was taken all the way down to second place. The ultimate order of end for the primary 5 contestants was:
Place
Horse
#
Driver
Coach
1st
Madden Oaks
9
Braxten Boyd
Cameron Capone
2nd
Prince Hal Hanover
4
Todd McCarthy
Dr. Ian Moore
third
Papi’s Pistol
1
David Miller
Sam DePinto
4th
Fallout
6
Tim Tetrick
Tony Alagna
fifth
Captain Optimistic
5
Dexter Dunn
Nancy Takter
This isn’t the primary time an inquiry has triggered an upset instantly following a race. In 2021, Dr. Ian Moore controversially received the Meadowlands Tempo when his horse Lawless Shadow, pushed by Mark MacDonald, received an inquiry, setting down challenger Charlie Might, pushed by Dave Miller, to a ninth-place end because of interference that was dominated to have affected a number of contestants.
Residence stretch. Photograph courtesy of Meadowlands Media.
HorseDoc® subsequently adopted Madden Oaks, coach Camerone Capone, and driver Braxton Boyd to the Winner’s Circle for an emotional celebration by the youngest trainer-driver mixture to have received this prestigious race. Coach Cameron ‘Cam’ Capone simply turned 26 and driver Braxton Boyd is 25. Capone and Boyd had been every overcome with feelings relating to their historic accomplishment.
You possibly can see all interviews on this 12-minute video:
Dr. Gregory A. Beroza, DVM, DACVS, DABVP has been a practising veterinarian and guide for 42 years; and HorseDoc® ‘Speaking Horses’® media host, writer, and guide since 2007. Dr. Beroza is a multimedia host and broadcasts his productions, together with a brand new Podcast, through his WuzUpDoc Media web site: www.WuzUpDoc.com. He will be discovered on Twitter, Fb, Youtube and different social media sources.
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