Tag: Monmouth Park

OCEANPORT – Trainer John Servis went into the Grade 3 Monmouth Oaks at Monmouth Park on July 31 thinking that Midnight Obsession was further ahead at this stage of her development than stablemate Leader of the Band. He found himself reassessing that belief right after the race, according to a press release. Leader of the…

OCEANPORT – Trainer Miguel Vera is fully aware of the challenges facing his 3-year-old filly Edie Meeny Miny Mo in the Grade 3 Monmouth Oaks at Monmouth Park on July 31. She has never been around two turns, nor has she ever tried any stakes company yet. And she’s the least experienced filly in the…

OCEANPORT – After everything trainer Wayne Potts has been through the past year, the one thing he’s learned to do is to appreciate the good times when he is in the midst of them. This is one of them for the 40-year-old, who enters Monmouth Park’s three-day racing weekend on Friday in second place in…

OCEANPORT – Owner and breeder John Bowers was so confident in the turf breeding of He’spuregold that he specifically targeted a summer stakes race for trainer Kelly Breen to point to with the 3-year-old maiden gelding this spring. That race was the $85,000 Irish War Cry Handicap and Bowers’ faith was rewarded in a big…

OCEANPORT – When Joan Milne isn’t working at her 180-acre farm in Pittstown with her husband Dennis, a veterinarian, she’s at Monmouth Park every morning overseeing the nine horses she has stabled there. As a part-time trainer and full-time farm owner who commutes 65 miles each way on a daily basis, it’s a demanding way…

OCEANPORT – As he continues to balance divisions at Monmouth Park and Gulfstream, doing so well enough to be in the top 10 of the trainer standings at both tracks, J. Kent Sweezey is quick to point out it is more than just a one-man operation. So his success, he insists, is really team success,…

OCEANPORT – Groovy Surprise apparently enjoyed her first stakes victory so much in her last start that she wanted to experience the feeling again. The 4-year-old filly broke alertly, set moderate early fractions and then held off a determined Bramble Bay in what was essentially a stretch-long duel to win the $85,000 Jersey Girl Handicap…