Girvin earned the first Grade 1 of his career – and enhanced the 3-year-old division’s disarray – with a late rally to win the Haskell Sunday at Monmouth.
Sunday’s G1 Haskell Invitational will feature hometown hero Irish War Cry — and a potential “Hollywood story,” says Monmouth’s Bob Kulina.
New Jersey-bred Irish War Cry — owned by the daughter of Amory Haskell — is favored in Sunday’s Haskell Invitational and will break from the inside post.
Haskell Invitational contender Irish War Cry and jockey Rajiv Maragh “really do have a rapport,” says trainer Graham Motion.
Amory Haskell, first president of and driving force behind Monmouth Park, was a towering figure who lived a remarkable life.
With its season to open May 13, Monmouth Park’s 2017 stakes schedule will again be anchored by the Grade 1 Haskell Invitational.
Part 3 of 4 of our 2016 in review, in which we take a sometimes happy, sometimes sad, and most often bemused look at the year that was in the mid-Atlantic.
Here’s what the Haskell looked like: Exaggerator had his game face on. Kent Desormeaux was all smiles. Joe Bravo raised the Cup. And Bradester? Wow.
One Haskell entrant had been pointing to the race for nine months, another for just five days. In the end, both were happy they’d come.
Former Colonial Downs on-air handicapper Derby Bill returns to give us his bets for Sunday’s Grade 1 Haskell and supporting stakes.