Monmouth Park concluded its 2016 racing season with major drops in attendance, field size, and handle.
Made Me Shiver won Monmouth Park’s Sorority Stakes for juvenile fillies, giving trainer Steve Asmussen a sweep of the track’s two primary two-year-old events.
Tip Tap Tapizar rallied late to edge Holiday Bonus and take Monmouth Park’s top juvenile event, the Sapling Stakes.
The top two juvenile races of the Monmouth Park meet — the Sapling for two-year-olds and the Sorority for the distaff set — take place this weekend.
Total handle in the mid-Atlantic region fell 25 percent in August versus July, and the daily average was off by nearly five percent.
Mr. Jordan, a Grade 3 winner at Monmouth Park, will seek to reprise that success tomorrow in the Grade 3 Iselin Stakes at that track.
Can’thelpbelieving and Trevor McCarthy finished with style to win the Grade 3 Cliff Hanger Stakes at Monmouth Park.
Unbridled Mo prevailed in a long duel with Tejana to win Saturday’s Grade 3 Monmouth Oaks.
Four-year-old Pool Winner lodged a dominant victory in yesterday’s My Frenchman Stakes for the first added-money win of his career.
Despite yet another legal setback, the operators of Monmouth Park vowed today to continue the fight for sports betting in New Jersey.