The Red Bank for older horses at one mile on turf is an open stakes race. The New Jersey-breds didn’t care. He’spuregold, closing determinedly under Paco Lopez, ran down his fellow New Jersey-bred and longtime rival There Are No Words to win the Red Bank on Monday at Monmouth Park. Sir London finished third, Starstruck […]

R. Larry Johnson’s Grade 2-winning Maryland homebred Future Is Now fought back having lost the lead to Star Guest in mid-stretch and survived an inquiry after coming together with that rival moments earlier to register a half-length victory in Friday’s Listed $150,000 Smart N Fancy at Saratoga Race Course. The 12th running of the Smart […]

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Trainer Michael Trombetta had to sweat out a grueling stretch battle, head bobbing finish, and a stewards’ inquiry but in the end, all that angst proved worth the wait once the official sign finally went up on Future Is Now’s half-length victory over Star Guest in Friday’s $150,000 Smart N Fancy […]

You were wondering why Hall of Fame trainer Neil Drysdale sent St Anthony all the way from California to Monmouth Park for Friday’s Oceanport Stakes, the gelding’s first start since November? St Anthony provided an answer, a dominant 1 1/2-length victory in the $100,000 Oceanport, which failed to fill when originally scheduled last weekend before […]

Beauty of the Sea lived up to her 4-5 favoritism and won her second consecutive black type event with a straightforward victory in the $151,000 Andy Guest at Colonial Downs Sunday. The Andy Guest featured six fillies and mares, 3-years-old and older who went five-and-a-half furlongs on the turf. Beauty of the Sea and jockey […]

Five Star General and Clovisconnection put on an exciting stretch battle in Sunday’s $150,000 Longacres Mile at Emerald Downs. Defending champion Five Star General got the best of Clovisconnection, closing in the final strides to win by a head. The pair were sent away quickly from the gate by their respective riders, with Clovisconnection drifting […]

As he closes in on his sixth straight riding title and 11th overall at Monmouth Park, jockey Paco Lopez is also nearing a significant milestone: 4,000 career wins. He says he would like to achieve it at the Jersey Shore track, which has been his summer base since 2009. However, with only 16 live racing cards […]

As he closes in on his sixth straight riding title and 11th overall at Monmouth Park, jockey Paco Lopez is also nearing a significant milestone: 4,000 career wins. It’s an achievement he says he would like to happen at the Jersey Shore track, which has been his summer base since 2009, but with only 16 live […]

Locked in a nose-to-nose duel for the final sixteenth of a mile, Governor Sam  was able to prevail at the wire for a neck victory over Jet Sweep Joe  Aug. 3 in the $100,000 Tyro Stakes at Monmouth Park, becoming the first black-type stakes winner for WinStar Farm’s late stallion Improbable. The winning time for the five furlongs over a turf […]

  The 2-year-old filly Dreamaway looked competent winning her career debut over the Keeneland dirt track in April. She looked fantastic on the Monmouth Park turf course Sunday in capturing the $100,000 Colleen Stakes by 5 1/4 lengths.  Breaking sharply under Paco Lopez and taking an early lead, Dreamaway’s most impressive section of the Colleen, […]