Prendimi upset favored Golden Brown to win the Charles Hesse III Handicap at Sunday’s New Jersey Thoroughbred Festival at Monmouth Park.
Monmouth Park’s decision to take the Eatontown Stakes off the turf did not deter Valiance, who splashed home best for her fifth win in seven career starts.
At Sunday’s New Jersey Throughbred Festival at Monmouth Park, trainer Pat McBurney figures prominently — he’ll send out nine runners.
Pending approval, Monmouth Park will add nine racing days in October to the racing schedule in what is billed as a Meadowlands-at-Monmouth meet.
Favored Warrior’s Charge needed help from the stewards, who disqualified first-past-the-post Pirate’s Punch, to win the Grade 3 Iselin at Monmouth Park.
A backup with the drug testing lab has left Monmouth Park horsemen in the lurch, leaving them with little purse revenue in the first six weeks of the meet.
A soggy day took the Incredible Revenge Stakes off the turf and allowed Chalon in, and she responded with her ninth career win.
In the last “official” Derby prep, Pneumatic rolled to victory in the Pegasus Stakes at Monmouth Park to earn 20 Kentucky Derby points.
In a new “Where are they now?” Linda Dougherty catches up with multiple graded stakes-winning trainer Ben Perkins, Sr., 86,,who still is active in the game.
Saturday’s Pegasus Stakes at Monmouth Park offers one last opportunity for horses to earn Kentucky Derby points, with 20 to the winner.