Category: New Jersey

Monmouth adds days, bolsters purses for 2019

by Press Release | Feb 7, 2019 | Breaking, Business, New Jersey, NJ Business | 0 |

With new state subsidies, Monmouth Park is adding days in 2019 and bolstering purses, which are expected to hit about $500,000 daily.

Stories that mattered in ’18: The rise of sports betting

by Doug McCoy | Jan 7, 2019 | Breaking, DE Business, Delaware, Features, New Jersey, NJ Business, PA Business, Pennsylvania, Regionwide, Top Stories, West Virginia, WV Business | 0 |

Legalized in mid-year, sports betting was by the end of 2018 having significant impacts on the gambling landscape throughout the Mid-Atlantic.

Monmouth Park, theScore to launch mobile sportsbook

by Press Release | Dec 19, 2018 | Breaking, Business, New Jersey, NJ Business | 0 |

The agreement between theScore and Monmouth Park will lead to a mobile sportsbook being launched in 2019, pending regulatory approval.

Trainer J. Willard Thompson, 83, passes

by Press Release | Nov 5, 2018 | Breaking, Business, New Jersey, NJ Business | 0 |

J. Willard Thompson, a trainer who plied his craft at Monmouth and around the Mid-Atlantic for over five decades, has died.

Breeders’ Cup: Spotlight beckons for Sacco, Mind Control

by Jim Hague | Nov 1, 2018 | Breaking, Features, New Jersey, NJ Racing, Top Stories | 0 |

Monmouth-based trainer Gregg Sacco has mostly been under the radar, but Mind Control, his Hopeful winner and BC Juvenile contender, could change all that.

New Jersey horsemen to support Aftercare Alliance

by Press Release | Oct 25, 2018 | Breaking, Business, New Jersey, NJ Business | 0 |

The New Jersey Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association has announced it will donate $5,000 to the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance.

Meadowlands cancels Friday all-turf card

by Press Release | Sep 11, 2018 | Breaking, Business, New Jersey, NJ Business | 0 |

The Meadowlands will not run its Friday evening all-turf Thoroughbred card, leaving the track with just five dates on the flat this year, starting with Saturday, Sept. 15.

Rainy Monmouth meet concludes with drops in attendance, handle

by Press Release | Sep 10, 2018 | Breaking, Business, New Jersey, NJ Business | 0 |

Monmouth Park’s rainy 2018 meet, with attendance and handle numbers not far off 2017, though it lost over one-third of its scheduled turf races to weather.