Claiming activity was relatively sluggish, plus the Midlantic Claiming 7, in our Claimbox report.
Stake winners and top Midlantic-breds, plus a top jock and two leading runners, in our weekend RaceBrief.
A couple of Monmouth stakes, plus a passel of Midlantic-breds running in added-money events at Saratoga, are on tap this weekend.
Monmouth Park announced that it would reduce overnight purses, becoming the second mid-Atlantic track to do so in recent weeks.
On Sunday, the New Jersey-bred Hall of Fame inducted two new members. Suitably inspired, a current NJ-bred, Rainbow Heir, won the Teddy Drone.
With Bayern’s Haskell win, all three winners of Breeders’ Cup Classic “Win and You’re In” races this year have been sired by stallions at Pin Oak Lane Farm in Pennsylvania.
Sunday’s Haskell Invitational drew a crowd of more than 35,000 to Monmouth Park. Here’s what the day looked like from one vantage point.
Coming off two tough beats, Valid turned the tables today, wearing down Bradester to win the Grade 2 Monmouth Cup.
Speedy Bayern showed a new dimension today, ripping off a 7-lengths win in the Grade 1 Haskell and spoiling filly Untapable’s venture into open company.
Guys Reward, a horse trainer Dale Romans describes as a “hard campaigner,” took the second graded stake of his 2014 season in the Grade 3 Oceanport.