Trainer Kelly Breen is assured of having an entry in this year’s Kentucky Derby. The Breen-trained Black Onyx won the $550,000 Horseshoe Casino Cincinnati Spiral Stakes at the Turfway Park in Florence, Ky., on March 23.
By winning the Grade III Kentucky Derby Prep, Black Onyx, which was a 15-1 shot, earned 50 points in the new Churchill Downs points system, all but assuring the 3-year-old colt a spot in the Derby.
Monmouth Park veteran Joe Bravo was in the saddle for the win. Black Onyx is owned by Sam Herzberg.
Breen, who lives in Howell and has saddled up Kentucky Derby entrants in the past, owns a Triple Crown victory with Ruler On Ice, which captured the 2011 Belmont Stakes.
Rutgers University-Newark will be running its 11th annual Summer Baskeball Program for children ages 7-17. The program runs July 8-12, July 22-26 and July 29-Aug. 2 from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. The program has early drop-off and late pick-up times, and discount rates if you attend two or three weeks.
For more information or a brochure, call Joe Loughran at 973-353-1483.