Monmouth closes with attendance, handle gains
Monmouth Park concluded its 2017 season Sunday and announced gains in attendance and handle.
Monmouth Park concluded its 2017 season Sunday and announced gains in attendance and handle.
The G3 De Francis Dash, to be run September 16, has drawn 24 nominations and tops a card packed with seven stakes.
The fall meet at Laurel Park will feature more than $4 million in stakes, including the De Francis Dash, Maryland Million, and more.
A pair of stakes for non-winners of a stake slated for opening weekend at Laurel Park have drawn nearly five dozen nominations.
Trainer Kelly Breen will send out a pair of logical contenders in Monmouth’s two Saturday juvenile stakes, the Sorority and the Sapling.
Breeders of horses bred and sired in Maryland that break their maidens in-state will receiv a 50 percent bonus, starting with the Laurel Park fall meet.
The catalog for the two-day Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Fall Yearling Sale is now available online, the company said.
The average daily handle at the just-completed Laurel Park summer meet rose by more than 25 percent, the Maryland Jockey Club said.
Delaware Park and the state’s horsemen’s group have agreed to a one-year contract extension guaranteeing 81 days of live racing in 2018.
For the second time in three years, Fuzzy Muzzle took the Charles Hesse III Handicap to highlight Monmouth’s New Jersey Thoroughbred Festival Day.