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Monmouth Park’s 2010 Elite Summer Meet, which began as an experiment on May 22, finished as a total triumph on September 6, with triple-digit gains in average mutuel handle and double-digit gains in average attendance and average field size.
The ultra-game Get Serious was at it again at Monmouth Park on Sunday, holding off the charge of Nownownow to win the Grade 3, $200,000 Red Bank Stakes by a neck as Wildcat Brief posted
Robert Tell and Wesley A. Ward’s Madman Diaries took control out of the gate and never looked back, winning the Grade 3, $150,000 Sapling Stakes by a half length as Grecian Maiden held on for a nose victory
The final 100 yards of Monmouth Park’s $82,000 allowance/optional claiming feature on Friday came down to a duel between two gray fillies, with Kaleem Shah’s Me Love getting the nod over Ms. Short Pockets at the wire.
In the final start of her career, J. Larry and Cindy Jones’ Just Jenda went out a winner and re-affirmed her love for Monmouth Park by capturing the 65th running of the Grade 2, $300,000 Molly Pitcher Stakes, while A Brilliant Idea stormed home to take the Junior Champion Sunday at Monmouth Park.
Julia C. Boutelle’s Teaks North upset his eight rivals in the $100,000 Restoration Stakes, winning by a length as My Irish Gal reported home a 2 ¾ length winner in the $100,000 Miss Woodford Stakes at Monmouth Park on Saturday.
JMJ Racing Stables LLC’s Todd Got Even wore down Nuclear Wayne and pacesetter Drift King in the final sixteenth of a mile to post a length victory in the $84,000 feature race at Monmouth Park on Friday.
During the stretch of Sunday’s seventh race at Monmouth Park, track announcer Larry Collmus found himself in the middle of every spousal argument ever waged.
John Petrini’s Love That Dance charged hard in the lane to post a length-and-a-half win in the $100,000 Trenton Stakes
With a powerful move around the far turn, Duke of Mischief swept to the lead and opened up to a 2 ¼ length win
George and Lori Hall’s They Call Me Giant didn’t disappoint his many backers in the $80,000 allowance feature at Monmouth Park
Dubai Majesty rallied strongly in the lane to run down odds-on favorite West Ocean to capture the $100,000 Incredible Revenge
Governor Brereton C. Jones’s No Such Word sat off the early pace before swooping past the leaders turning for home and holding off Seeking the Title to capture the $200,000 Monmouth Oaks as Rustler Hustler took the $100,000 Continental Mile Stakes at Monmouth Park on Saturday.
No one picked all five winners in Monmouth’s Pick 5 on Friday, creating a carryover of $59,525 for Saturday’s program.
Marvelous Chester took command soon after the start and held the lead all the way to the wire but was disqualified from first and placed third for interference with Super Doc in deep stretch, leading to Isittruemossy moving to the top spot as the official winner of the $50,000 Malouf Auto Group Starter Series Handicap at Monmouth Park on Friday.
With a list of winners that reads like a racing “who’s who”, the Monmouth Oaks is more than steeped in tradition, it’s a proving ground for top fillies to stamp themselves as a contender for the Breeders’ Cup, an Eclipse Award or a future spot in the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.
JMJ Racing Stables’ Out of Respect dueled with odds-on favorite Comedero through wicked fractions of :21 2/5 for the first quarter mile and :43 3/5 for the half before putting away that foe and drawing off
Laurence I. Foggle’s A Unique Treasure showed speed right from the start before opening up to a length and three-quarters
Preston Stables LLC’s Fortune Play sat mid-pack early before launching a three-wide bid around the far turn en route to upsetting 2-5 favorite Five Grand Girl
Lookin at Lucky, who won Sunday’s $1 million IZOD Haskell Invitational (G1) with a tour de force performance, remained in his stall at Monmouth Park Thursday morning after running a temperature in the days following the race.
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