This week’s Midlantic racing wrap: a graded stakes becomes ungraded, a track ends its season, a new meet begins, and first-timers impress…
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.
Monmouth Park reaches the end of its 2018 meet this afternoon with a hefty $370k carryover in – and mandatory payout of – its Pick 6.
Jockey Jose Ferrer had a big afternoon at Monmouth Park, winning two of the three NJ Thoroughbred Festival stakes.
Amapola, four months in foal to Divining Rod, stormed to an easy win in Saturday’s off-the-turf Incredible Revenge at Monmouth Park, part of the MATCH Series.
In a bi-state doubleheader, the MATCH Series will feature a Saturday race at Monmouth and a Sunday race at Laurel Park this weekend.
Imprimis dominated the Wolf Hill, while Name Changer took the Monmouth Cup – and the wins muddied the MATCH Series standings.
Good Magic was dominant in the Grade 1 Haskell Invitational Sunday at Monmouth Park to stake his claim as the best three-year-old still in training.
Eight-year-old Oak Bluffs will aim for his second win in the MATCH Series in Sunday’s Wolf Hill Stakes at Monmouth Park.
Remembering Rita, a onetime claiming horse-turned-graded stakes winner, looks to keep his good roll going in the G3 Monmouth Cup Sunday as part of the MATCH Series.