Last month, the Meadowlands Racetrack in East Rutherford, N.J., hosted the 100th edition of the Hambletonian, the trotting classic that has long been harness racing’s most important race. It was, by ...

Dieter Joosen, who lives in Belgium, is volunteering through an adopt-a-grave program to care for the grave of Jerry Chadwick. A Belgian man spends time caring for a Jacksonville WWII soldier’s grave.

New Jersey’s two racetracks are each getting $3.5 million in the state’s record-high budget to offset cost increases from a tax hike Gov. Phil Murphy previously sought on revenue from sports betting.

The trouble started for Jeff Gural* just a few minutes after he had won the race of his lifetime, the 100th edition of the Hambletonian, Standardbred racing’s most important race. Gural’s horse, ...

Growing up in a family of horsemen in Ontario, John Campbell knew how prestigious the Hambletonian was. Then he saw good friend Ray Remmen win the first to take place at the Meadowlands in 1981. “It ...