New Jersey’s whip rules, promoting virtually whipless racing, have spurred threats, recriminations, calls for compromise – and some kudos, too.
The improving Vigilantes Way earned her first graded stakes score when winning easily in Sunday’s Grade 3 Eatontown Stakes at Monmouth Park.
Vigilantes Way, second last out in the G3 Gallorette, has a “pretty good future,” her trainer believes, which could start in Sunday’s G3 Eatontown.
Kentucky Derby runner-up Mandaloun rallied from a rough start to edge Weyburn in the Pegasus Stakes at Monmouth Park.
Mandaloun, second in the Kentucky Derby, makes his first start since in Sunday’s Pegasus Stakes at Monmouth Park, the local prep for the Haskell.
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.
Three-year-old It’s a Gamble earned his first stakes win when he scored in Friday’s Jersey Derby on opening day at Monmouth Park.
With a New Jersey rule clamping down on the use of the riding crop, some jockeys who usually make Monmouth Park home are steering clear.
Brazilian by birth and a citizen of the world by choice, trainer Rafael Schistl will call Monmouth Park home this summer.
Monmouth Park is closer to offering fixed-odds wagering, along with parimutuel, after the state Assembly approved it Friday.