Sixteen stakes contested in the Mid-Atlantic have been downgraded for 2025 by the American Graded Stakes Committee.
Three Grade 3 winners and a local hopeful make Saturday’s Pegasus Stakes at Monmouth, the last local Haskell prep, an intriguing race.
While Chad Brown’s ‘A’ team won two Grade 1 races at Belmont Park Saturday, ‘B’ teamer Devamani scored in the G3 Monmouth Stakes, too.
Eight-year-old Almanaar returned from a 16-month break to defend his title in the Grade 3 Monmouth Stakes Saturday.
Almanaar and Sunny Ridge were won the first graded stakes of the year at Monmouth Park.
Familiar names like Diamond King and Projected headline the G2 Monmouth Stakes and G3 Salvator Mile Saturday at Monmouth Park.
Hard-hitting veteran Page McKenney won the Grade 3 Salvator Mile, part of the MATCH Series, while Money Multipler took the Monmouth Stakes.
At Monmouth Park on Sunday, Triple Threat took the featured G2 Monmouth Stakes, while Dreamsgonewild scored in the McSorley.
Off a rough trip in the Dixie, Grade 1 winner Lochte will look to find his winning form in this afternoon’s Grade 2 Monmouth Stakes.
