Tag: thoroughbred racing
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Potts enters weekend one win behind Delgado as he takes aim at training title
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…
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He’spuregold rallies for victory in Irish War Cry Handicap at Monmouth
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…
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Quiberon Bay could give Milne her first stakes win in Irish War Cry
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…
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Sweezey: Training success is a team effort in thoroughbred racing
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,…
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Groovy Surprise notches second straight stakes victory by winning Jersey Girl Handicap
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…
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DQ elevates Mandaloun to victory in TVG.com Haskell Stakes
OCEANPORT – Juddmonte Farms’ Mandaloun came from off the pace to earn his first Grade 1 victory in the 54th running of the $1 million TVG.com Haskell Stakes at Monmouth Park on July 17 as a result of the first winner’s disqualification in race history, and with the triumph gave his owner/breeder, trainer and jockey…
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Chasing Artie surges to neck victory in My Frenchman Stakes
OCEANPORT – Chances are Chasing Artie won’t be available in a $15,000 claimer again any time soon. The Wesley Ward-trained gelding, dropped into a $15,000 maiden claimer to start the year, improved to 3-for-3 in turf sprints and notched his second stakes win in four months, using a ground-saving trip to score a neck victory…
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Chasing Artie surges to neck victory in My Frenchman Stakes
OCEANPORT – Chances are Chasing Artie won’t be available in a $15,000 claimer again any time soon. The Wesley Ward-trained gelding, dropped into a $15,000 maiden claimer to start the year, improved to 3-for-3 in turf sprints and notched his second stakes win in four months, using a ground-saving trip to score a neck victory…
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Cilla wins $75,000 Blue Sparkler Stakes at Monmouth Park
OCEANPORT – Trainer Brett Brinkman’s initial reaction when the July 10 Blue Sparkler Stakes at Monmouth Park came off the grass? “I was happy,” he said. His second reaction? The realization that he still didn’t have an answer about whether or not his talented 3-year-old filly Cilla will take the turf, according to a press…