by Tom Luicci/Monmouth Park|09.05.202209.05.2022|1:58pm1:59pm Labor Day Salute: Clocker Celebrates 50 Years Of Timing Workouts At Monmouth Park For all of the considerable changes at Monmouth Park during the past 50 years, there remains one constant over that time: Gatha ‘Gate’ Artis is still in the clocker’s stand at 5:10 a.m. every day during the live meet keeping a watchful eye on horses working. This summer is his 50th year as a clocker at […]
by Tom Luicci/Monmouth Park|09.04.2022|6:17pm Recent Claim Feast Steps Up And Wins Rumson In Stakes Debut Five weeks after being claimed for $25,000, Feast became a stakes winner in his first try against loftier company. The speedy 5-year-old ridgling out-broke the field in Sunday’s $100,000 Rumson Stakes, was passed by 7-10 favorite Hollis at the one-eighth pole, and then dug in along the rail, surging back for a half-length victory in […]
by Tom Luicci/Monmouth Park|09.03.2022|4:11pm ‘She’s A Little Machine’: Vigilantes Way Rumbles Up Rail For Violet Stakes Win At Monmouth After three frustrating near-misses to start her 5-year-old campaign, Vigilantes Way was able to break through on Saturday at Monmouth Park in a performance that trainer Shug McGaughey said “was overdue for her.” Taking advantage of a rail trip in the five-horse field of fillies and mares 3 and up, Vigilantes Way closed stoutly inside […]
by Tom Luicci/Monmouth Park|08.29.2022|6:10pm Monday’s Mid-Atlantic Pick 4 Returns $1,910 Comedic Timing found an opening along the rail coming out of the final turn and then prevailed in a stretch duel with Cash Now before going on to a 1½-length victory in Monday’s featured $57,500 allowance at Monmouth Park. The winner was the third on the eight-race card for jockey Angel A. Rodriguez, who only […]
by Tom Luicci/Monmouth Park|08.28.2022|8:29pm State Turf Champ He’spuregold Wins Dirt Debut In Charles Hesse Handicap On New Jersey Thoroughbred Festival Day Trainer Kelly Breen knew he was rolling the dice a little by trying He’spuregold on the dirt for the first time in his career on Sunday on Monmouth Park. But he also saw enough in the morning from the 4-year-old gelding to give it a try. Shortly after being named New Jersey’s champion turf runner […]
by Tom Luicci/Monmouth Park|08.27.202208.27.2022|11:40am11:43am ‘This Weekend Will Be Very Important’: Gonzalez Looks To Extend Lead For Monmouth Training Title, To Send Out Six Runners On New Jersey Festival Day For State-Breds With all of the training titles Claudio Gonzalez has collected from Maryland over the past decade, it would be easy for him be blasé about the prospect of yet another one. Nothing could be further from the truth. The 45-year-old Gonzalez says the possibility of being the leading trainer at Monmouth Park for the first […]
by Tom Luicci/Monmouth Park|08.25.2022|1:06pm Sacco-Trained Freedom Road’s ‘Professionalism’ Should Serve Him Well In Sapling Of the eight colts entered in Saturday’s $200,000 Sapling Stakes for 2-year-olds at Monmouth Park, seven are coming off debut wins. Of those seven, six were well backed at the betting windows, with the longest shot among them going off 7-2. Then there’s Freedom Road. The Gregg Sacco-trainee was one of the biggest surprises on […]
by Tom Luicci/Monmouth Park|08.24.2022|3:09pm 17-Length Maiden Winner American Blaze Will Target Monmouth’s Sapling Stakes There was plenty for trainer Ben Colebrook to like about American Blaze’s dazzling 17-length win in his career debut on July 30 at Ellis Park, but there was also one question left unanswered by the performance. Just how good is the Kentucky-bred son of American Freedom? Colebrook hopes to have a better idea following American […]
by Tom Luicci/Monmouth Park|08.22.2022|4:25pm Hall Of Fame Jockey Ramon Dominguez Enjoying ‘Next Phase’ Of Life The last time Ramon Dominguez was at Monmouth Park he was at the height of his illustrious career as a jockey, riding First Dude to a third-place finish in the 2010 Haskell Invitational. That seems like a lifetime ago for the National Racing Museum Hall of Famer and three-time Eclipse Award winner, who was back […]
by Tom Luicci/Monmouth Park|08.21.2022|5:52pm ‘She Has Some Big Shoes To Fill’: Vedareo, Half Sister To Champion Vequist, Romps Wire To Wire In Monmouth’s Sorority It’s going to take a few more dazzling performances like Sunday’s romp in the $200,000 Sorority Stakes at Monmouth Park for Vedareo to come close to the accomplishments of her champion half sister, but the 2-year-old filly appears to be on her way. Sent to the front early by jockey Frankie Pennington in her first […]