Redistricting powered home in the $600,000, Grade 2 United Nations on the NYRA Bets Haskell Stakes undercard on Saturday to give five-time Eclipse Award-winning trainer Chad Brown his fourth win of the day and reigning champion jockey Flavien Prat his third before a crowd of 41,876.

It marked the sixth time that Brown has won the United Nations Stakes.

Redistricting sat off the pace set by Major Dude for most of the 1 3/8 test over the firm turf and sailed home to win comfortably by 1½ lengths in the final time of 2:13.75. Grand Sonata was second, a half-length in front of Major Dude, both of whom are trained by Todd Pletcher.

“He showed that he really liked this turf course in his last start (a five-length win in the Monmouth Stakes on June 14). He won very easily – actually, today he was pretty good too,” said Luis Cabrera, who oversees Brown’s division at Monmouth Park. “The trip was perfect. He likes to run in front but if someone else goes he can sit there off the pace. I think the key was the turf course. He really liked it.

“He’s bred for this distance. These horses from Europe are bred to go this long so I wasn’t worried about that.”

Redistricting paid $4.60 to win.

“He got himself into the race,” said Prat. “I was going to go but I felt like Major Dude was committed to going so I sat right behind him. Good horses give you a good punch and that’s what he gave me when I got through.

“I always felt like I was traveling well and had a lot of horse under me. After that it would be whoever got the best punch and he did today.”

The remaining stakes results from the undercard:

Grade 3 Molly Pitcher Stakes

Klaravich Stables’ Randomized took full advantage of the class relief she found in the $500,000 Molly Pitcher Stakes to cruise to a three-length win for the combination of Brown and Prat.

The 5-year-old daughter of 2016 Kentucky Derby winner, found the winner’s circle in her third effort of the season and she scored for the first time since winning the 2024 Grade 1 Ogden Phipps at Saratoga last June. Her four prior efforts had all been against Grade 1 company.

“It was a nice (comeback) win for her,” said Cabrera. “It’s a fast track and there was a lot of speed in the race so we just tried to break good and keep going. It was perfect.

“The last four of her five races were in Grade 1s, so the class relief helped. It will build her confidence and we’ll go from here. The ride from Flavien Prat was perfect. He’s a great rider.”

Randomized covered the 1 1/16-mile distance in the final time of 1:42.75. Majestic Oops, making her graded stakes debut in her 30^th career start, was second. Candied ran third, another nose back.

Randomized paid $6 to win in a field of six following the scratches of Leslie’s Rose, Power Squeeze and Regaled.

Grade 3 Monmouth Cup

When 19-1 longshot Surface to Air won a spirited battle through the lane over 1-9 Brad Cox-trainee Just a Touch in the $400,000 Monmouth Cup it gave 26-year-old trainer Panagiotis (Peter) Synnefias both the first stakes win and the first graded stakes victory of his career.

“Last year in this race (when the horse finished seventh) we rushed into the race,” said Synnefias, who is based at Monmouth this summer. “We didn’t have much time to prep. This time we were able to prepare for this race. We used the (Grade 3) Salvator Mile (on June 14) to get ready and he came back in good order. We were able to put a couple of more works in him and he has done everything right.

“This was an obvious spot for us. We had this planned all along. We thought we had a chance last year in this race but it didn’t line up the way we wanted it to. When I saw my horse at the half-mile pole I was very happy. Yes, he definitely ran the race of his life.”

Just A Touch third in the Grade 1 Metropolitan Mile, got out to an easy lead in the 1 1/8 mile-race, was overtaken by Surface to Air in the lane, and fought back. But the winner pushed ahead under Samuel Marin to win by a length in 1:49.29 in the nine-furlong race.

Cadet Corps finished third, seven lengths behind Just a Touch.

It marked the first graded stakes win for Marin.

Surface to Air paid $41.40 to win.

Grade 3 WinStar Matchmaker Stakes

Juddmonte homebred Segesta took the $300,000 WinStar Matchmaker to give Brown his sixth straight victory his sixth straight victory in the 1 1/8 mile-turf test for fillies and mares, 3 and up.

When the 4-year-old Ghostzapper filly crossed the wire under Irad Ortiz, Jr. in the final time of 1:49.17 on firm turf, it was also the eighth time in the last nine runnings that Brown trained the Matchmaker winner.

Sacred Wish was a neck behind and the Brown-trained Grayosh was a nose back in third in the field of seven.

The win was the first in three outings in 2025 for Segesta, who paid $7.60 to win. The Kentucky-bred dual graded stakes winner now has a record of 3-2-0 in eight starts and earnings of $477,275.

“We liked all three horses we had in this race,” said Cabrera. “All of them were training good. So we weren’t sure how it was going to turn out. Irad Ortiz said this filly relaxed a lot so she was able to get a nice tracking trip. He has ridden her before and he said when she relaxes she is usually good.

“Her last race (the Grade 1 Just A Game at Saratoga on June 6) the turf was yielding and she probably didn’t like that. We like winning this race. We want to keep it going as long as we can.”

Brown also won the third race on the 14-race card – a maiden race at a mile and a sixteenth on the grass – with second-time starter Investment Mandate.

Story by Lynne Snierson

Monmouth Park Publicity Staff