Tag: thoroughbred racing
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Toner has high expectations for Seasons in Boiling Springs Handicap
OCEANPORT – Jimmy Toner thought enough of Seasons as a 2-year-old last year that he tried the Tapit filly in a Grade 1 race in just her second career start. And that was Plan B, said the veteran trainer. Plan A was the Breeders’ Cup, a goal that never materialized. Now Toner has the Kentucky-bred…
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Delgado leads tight Monmouth Park trainers’ race
OCEANPORT – After winning with four of his six starters last weekend, Jose Delgado sits atop a tightly contested Monmouth Park trainers’ race with 11 wins after 13 days of live racing. To offset having a stable that is significantly smaller than current co-runners-up Kelly Breen and Wayne Potts (each with nine wins entering the…
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Caravel looking to use Goldwood Stakes as springboard to ambitious summer schedule
OCEANPORT – Elizabeth Merryman isn’t convinced she has seen the best from Caravel, a 4-year-old filly she bred, owns and trains. But she is hoping Friday’s inaugural $75,000 Goldwood Stakes at Monmouth Park is another step toward finding out where the ceiling is for a turf specialist she feels will be the best horse she…
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Vigilantes Way scores in Grade 3 Eatontown Stakes at Monmouth
OCEANPORT – Even after 11 career starts, Hall of Fame trainer Shug McGaughey has been saying that the best is yet to come for Vigilantes Way. The Grade 3 Eatontown Stakes at Monmouth Park on June 20 may be the start of that for the 4-year-old filly, according to a press release. Perfectly positioned to…
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Stidham looking for big effort from Micheline in Eatontown Stakes
OCEANPORT – Now that Micheline has notched her first graded stakes victory, doing so in her 2021 debut, trainer Michael Stidham is convinced there’s much more to come this year for the 4-year-old daughter of Bernardini. The next step is the Grade 3 Eatontown Stakes on June 20 at Monmouth Park, with the $150,000 Father’s…
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Ferrer proving age is just a number with meet-leading 16 winners at Monmouth Park
OCEANPORT – Jockey Jose Ferrer will often dust off one of his favorite expressions to make sense of having booted home an improbable longshot, as was the case in last Saturday’s Grade 3 Salvator Mile at Monmouth Park, when he won with Informative at odds of 79-1. One is that the horses can’t read the…
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Kentucky Derby runner-up Mandaloun heads field of five in TVG.com Pegasus Stakes
OCEANPORT – Kentucky Derby runner-up Mandaloun will face four other 3-year-olds, including two graded stakes winners, when he marks his return to racing in the June 13 TVG.com Pegasus Stakes at Monmouth Park. Unraced since the Kentucky Derby on May 1, Mandaloun drew post position 2 for the 40th edition of the mile-and-a-sixteenth Pegasus Stakes,…
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Pirate’s Punch, Ny Traffic head field of 10 for Grade 3 Salvator Mile
OCEANPORT – Pirate’s Punch and Ny Traffic took turns with impressive performances a year ago at Monmouth Park. Now they will match their considerable talents in the same race at the track. Pirate’s Punch, idle since the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile on Nov. 7, and Ny Traffic, who made his return to racing on May…
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Jockey Maria Scaldaferri to make Monmouth debut June 11
OCEANPORT – Trainer Luis Carvajal has a simple explanation for giving so many unproven – and often inexperienced – jockeys a chance with his horses. “When you do good things for people it eventually comes back to you,” he said. Maria Scaldaferri, a native of Argentina who has yet to win in the United States,…