Tag: Monmouth Park

OCEANPORT – As if any additional reminders were needed as to why Chad Brown has been America’s leading turf trainer for the past eight years, he offered up two more on Sept. 26 at Monmouth Park. She’s Got You, rallying on the outside, surged past stablemate Altea in deep stretch to give Brown a 1-2…

OCEANPORT – Anthony Farrior had already convinced himself that he had seen the last of Waist Deep for the 2020 racing season following the 2-year-old gelding’s impressive victory in the Sapling Stakes at Monmouth Park on Sept. 6. So the plan was to give Waist Deep the winter off and then gear up for next…

OCEANPORT – Monmouth Park will close out its 75th season of thoroughbred horse racing this weekend with stakes races on Sept. 26 and Sept. 27 as a couple of familiar faces look to put the finishing touches on training and riding titles. The $100,000 Violet Stakes, for fillies and mares 3 and up at a…

OCEANPORT – Pirate’s Punch left no doubt about the outcome this time. Disqualified from first for interference in the stretch in the Grade 3 Philip Iselin Stakes four weeks ago, Pirate’s Punch drew away coming out of the final turn to win the $150,000 Grade 3 Salvator Mile by two lengths on Sept. 20 at…

OCEANPORT – Different year, different horse, different Monmouth Park graded stakes race. But, trainer Kelly Rubley hopes, a similar result. A year after the Maryland-based trainer shipped in with Divisidero to win the Grade 3 Red Bank Stakes, Rubley will look for history to repeat when she sends out Laurel track record holder Top Line…

OCEANPORT – Ferrin Peterson isn’t sure if she can catch Paco Lopez for leading riding honors at the Monmouth Park thoroughbred racing meet, but the 28-year-old jockey is determined to give it her best shot. With that pursuit as part of the backdrop, Peterson is scheduled to ride every race on Monmouth Park’s 14-race card…

OCEANPORT – When trainer Antonio Arriaga convinced Silvino Ramirez to claim Share the Ride for $16,000 on July 5, it was with the belief that the 5-year-old gelding had the ability to be a stakes winner. It took four starts – two on the turf, which the horse had never tried before – but Arriaga’s…

OCEANPORT – The best year of jockey Isaac Castillo’s young career just keeps getting better. Able to get the jump on 3-5 favorite Royal Charlotte coming out of the final turn, Castillo and Bronx Beauty drew off for a four-and-a-quarter-length victory in the $75,000 Regret Stakes at Monmouth Park on Sept. 13, giving the 22-year-old…

OCEANPORT – Jockey Isaac Castillo looks at his list of accomplishments at Monmouth Park this summer and sees enough to know this is far and away the best year of his young career. He was able to ride in a graded stakes race for the first time. He had his first three-winner day (on Aug.…