Stakes Finale Sunday A Wide-Open Affair for 3-Year-Olds

Posted 2009-09-26

              Monmouth’s 2009 stakes schedule comes to a close Sunday with the first running of the $70,000 Big Brown Stakes, honoring the 2008 champion who won both the Haskell Invitational and Monmouth Stakes here.            The mile and a sixteenth event drew a field of six 3-year-olds, and it’s such a well-matched group there really are no short-priced favorites or long-priced ... Full Story

New Jersey Moves to Meadowlands on Thursday

Posted 2009-09-26

               Thoroughbred action shifts to northern New Jersey on Thursday, Oct. 1, when the Meadowlands opens a 47-program season that runs through Dec. 5. The East Rutherford track will run five days a week, with Sundays and Wednesdays dark.            First post time for the opening two weeks of racing (Oct. 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9) will be 1:10 p.m. Post time for the program of Sa... Full Story

Monmouth-Based Runners Longshots in NATC Colt Futurity

Posted 2009-09-25

The colts and geldings division of Saturday’s $200,000 Monmouth Park NATC Futurity drew an eclectic field of seven that includes four maidens, one first-time starter, a last-out winner and one standout. The standout, likely to go off odds-on, is Padua Stables’ Enumerate, a son of Proud Accolade who was an unlucky second, beaten a neck, in the Grade 2 Sanford Stakes at Saratoga in his second ... Full Story


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