Derby runner-up Mandaloun tops Pegasus field * The Racing Biz

DERBY RUNNER-UP MANDALOUN TOPS PEGASUS FIELD

*Medina Spirit held off Mandaloun to win the Kentucky Derby. Photo Coady Photography/Churchill Downs.*

Press Release
June 11, 2021

Kentucky Derby runner-up Mandaloun will face four other 3-year-olds, including two graded stakes winners, when he marks his return to racing in Sunday’s TVG.com Pegasus Stakes at Monmouth Park.

Unraced since the May 1 Kentucky Derby, Mandaloun drew post position 2 for the 40^th edition of the mile and a sixteenth Pegasus Stakes. Trained by Brad Cox, the son of Into Mischief will be ridden by Florent Geroux in the $150,000 race that headlines the Sunday card. First race post time is 12:15 p.m.

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Cox is using the Pegasus Stakes as a tune-up for Mandaloun for the $1 million TVG.com Haskell Stakes on July 17 at Monmouth.

Brooklyn Strong, who won the Grade 2 Remsen and was fifth in the Wood Memorial, drew post 1 for trainer Danny Velazquez. Brooklyn Strong also finished 15th in the Kentucky Derby. Abner Adorno has the mount.

Weyburn, winner of the Grade 3 Gotham Stakes at odds of 46-1 and then fourth in the Wood Memorial, has post position 4 for trainer James Jerkens. Dr Jack, unbeaten in two lifetime starts for trainer Todd Pletcher, and Lugamo, unraced since a 12^th-place finish on March 27 in the UAE Derby, round out the field.