There’s a good reason you don’t recognize the face and voice of the woman appearing on the Monmouth simulcast feed to express her opinions on upcoming races and their participants. This is Samantha Perry’s first job as a public-facing paddock host and handicapper.
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DRF Past Performances
The four-day opening race week of Monmouth Park’s 2021 season whipped past quicker than might have been expected.
There were no strikes or boycotts by jockeys and no in-running incidents during the 38-race week, the first race meeting in North America in which jockeys are not permitted to use whips for anything other than safety.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Ed Vaughan arrived in Kentucky in November, ready for a fresh start. The 47-year-old Irish-born trainer had wearied of the difficult economics of the British racing industry and was willing to give American racing a go.
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ELMONT, N.Y. – When it comes to the Belmont Stakes, trainer Doug O’Neill would rather think about what could be than what might have been.
On the day before the 2012 Belmont Stakes, O’Neill and owner Paul Reddam stood before a throng of reporters outside of Belmont Park’s Barn 1, explaining how Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner I’ll Have Another would be scratched from the Belmont and subsequently retired with a tendon injury.
A painful memory to be sure, it’s not something O’Neill dwells on.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Rebel’s Romance, the UAE Derby winner, was not entered in Saturday’s $1.5 million Belmont Stakes after developing a hind leg infection, trainer Charlie Appleby confirmed Tuesday morning.
The defection of Rebel’s Romance left a field of eight for the Belmont Stakes, entries for which were to be drawn at 11 a.m. Tuesday.
Appleby said that Rebel’s Romance has been treated for the infection by veterinarians at Belmont Park.
“He’s responding but not responding quick enough to get to the Belmont,” Appleby said.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Happy Saver, who came off a seven-month layoff to win a one-mile allowance race last Friday, will be pointed to the Grade 2, $400,000 Suburban Stakes at 1 1/4 miles on July 3, trainer Todd Pletcher said Monday.
Pletcher said the timing of the Suburban appeals to him as much, if not more than the 1 1/4-mile distance of the race. Happy Saver won the Grade 1 Jockey Club Gold Cup at 1 1/4 miles here last October.
ELMONT, NY. – Trainer Steve Asmussen will seek his third victory in the Grade 1, $1 million Metropolitan Handicap in the last four years when he runs the streaking Silver State in the prestigious one-mile race on Saturday’s Belmont Stakes undercard.
Silver State, a son of Hard Spun, returned from a seven-month layoff last October to win a first-level allowance race by seven lengths on Oct. 22 at Keeneland. He won a second-level allowance at Churchill Downs before wintering at Oaklawn Park and winning three stakes, all around two turns, topped by the Grade 2 Oaklawn Handicap.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Chub Wagon, an undefeated Pennsylvania-bred mare, will have her toughest test to date when she is scheduled to face seven rivals in Friday’s Grade 3, $300,000 Bed o’ Roses Stakes at seven furlongs.
Trained by Guadalupe Preciado, Chub Wagon has gone 6 for 6 beginning with a $20,000 claiming victory in her debut and culminating with a victory in the Skipat Stakes at Pimlico on Preakness Day.
Chub Wagon will take on a field that includes Vagrancy winner Victim of Love, Pacific Gale, Lake Avenue, Bayerness, Alandra, Estilo Talentoso, and Piedi Bianchi.
ELMONT, N.Y. – When Mean Mary won the Grade 2 New York Stakes last year, she did so off a three-month layoff, due in large part to the disruption of racing schedules caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Friday, when she seeks a repeat victory in the $750,000 New York Stakes at Belmont Park, Mean Mary will be running back in three weeks, following a facile victory in the Grade 3 Gallorette Stakes at Pimlico. The relative ease in which Mean Mary achieved her Pimlico victory played a role in trainer Graham Motion choosing to run in the New York.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Raymundos Secret, scratched from racing on Monday, will have her next start in the Grade 3 Wilshire Stakes for fillies and mares at a mile on June 20, the closing day of the winter-spring meeting.
Raymundos Secret was entered in two Grade 1 turf races worth $300,000 on Monday – the Gamely Stakes for fillies and mares and the Shoemaker Mile against males, but trainer Phil D’Amato said the $100,000 Wilshire Stakes is a more suitable race for her.