MONMOUTH PARK

2005 MONMOUTH PARK HEADLINES:

 

9/25/05 MP.com AVERAGE ATTENDANCE STAYS EVEN, BUT MUTUEL HANDLE FALLS DURING 90-DAY 2005 THOROUGHBRED SEASON AT MONMOUTH PARK

BRAVO!

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September 18, 2005

Oceanport, New Jersey

He may have been out for six weeks with injury but in his return he looked like he never missed a beat.  Sunday was another record day for Joe Bravo as he won six races at the shore oval including his victory aboard Comacina, above, in The Blue Sparkler Stakes. See the recaps of all the stakes action below.

 

9/23/05 MP.com POMPAY, BREEN SADDLE 'BORROWED' HORSES IN NATC FUTURITY
9/23/05 MP. com PERKINS MAKES NEW PLANS FOR SMOKESCREEN, WILDCAT HEIR
9/18/05 MP.com LEZCANO HAVING SUCCESS IN FIRST SUMMER AT MONMOUTH
9/18/05 MP.com BRAVO TIES RECORD, WINS SIX ON SUNDAY'S MONMOUTH CARD INCLUDING BLUE SPARKLER STAKES WITH COMACINA

9/17/05 MP.com PERKINS IMPRESSED WITH DELAWARE TOWNSHIP JUVENILE

 

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Monmouth Park 2005 Entries & Results

 

 

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PREVIOUS 2005 MONMOUTH PARK HEADLINES

 
9/16/05 MP.com GATORS N BEARS NEARS END OF STELLAR CAREER
9/15/05 MP.com BRAVO REBOUNDS FROM INJURY WITH HOT STREAK
9/1/05 DRF.com PLETCHER SORORITY DUO/BRAVO RETURNS/ELLIOTT SUSPENSION/NEW HORSEMEN'S PRESIDENT/DRAZIN-ZOFFINGER APPEAL
8/31/05 MP.com BRAVO TO RESUME RIDING IN PENNSYLVANIA DERBY ON MONDAY
8/28/05 MP.com MONMOUTH ADDS GOLDFINCH TO STAKES SCHEDULE SATURDAY
8/24/05 MP.com ALAN GARCIA READY TO RETURN SATURDAY; BRAVO STILL OUT
8/14/05 MP.com LIVERMORE VALLEY AT MID ATLANTIC EQUINE MEDICAL
8/9/05 DRF.com STRONG WEEKEND FOR N.J.
8/8/05 DRF.com CLASSIC GOAL FOR ROMAN RULER
8/8/05 MP.com HASKELL WINNER ROMAN RULER SHIPS OUT TO SARATOGA - BAFFERT TO MAP PLAN TO BREEDERS' CUP CLASSIC
8/8/05 MP.com HAMBO – HASKELL DOUBLE PAYS $55.40 CONSOLATION DOUBLE WITH GOLDEN MAN GOOD FOR $14.60
8/7/05 MP.com ROMAN RULER GIVES BAFFERT 3RD HASKELL INVITATIONAL WIN SUN KING 2ND, PARK AVENUE BALL 3RD IN MONMOUTH PARK CLASSIC
8/7/05 MP.com
8/7/05 MP.com
8/4/05 DRF.com HASKELL UNDERCARD LOADED
8/4/05 MP.com ROMAN RULER, POST 4, TOPS 8 IN SUNDAY'S HASKELL INVITATIONAL; PARK AVENUE BALL, SUN KING FOES IN $1 MILLION MONMOUTH TEST
8/2/05 MP.com PARK AVENUE BALL WORKS BULLET FOR MONMOUTH'S HASKELL; JOEY P. CONFIRMED FOR $1 MILLION RACE ON SUNDAY
8/1/05 DRF.com SURF CAT WILL STAY OUT WEST, BUT ROMAN RULER'S READY TO GO
7/28/05 MP.com AFLEET ALEX OUT OF HASKELL WITH INJURY
7/25/05 ORR MONMOUTH TURF COURSE TO CLOSE AFTER LABOR DAY
7/24/05 MP.com GARCIA FRACTURES COLLARBONE IN 4TH RACE SPILL AT MONMOUTH
7/22/05 MP.com STREAK ENDS AS JOEY P. RUNS 3RD IN FIRST TRY AROUND TWO TURNS
7/22/05 MP.com BRAVO TO MISS FOUR TO SIX WEEKS WITH BROKEN COLLARBONE
7/21/05 MP.com  BRAVO BREAKS COLLARBONE IN MONMOUTH PARK SPILL
7/20/05 MP.com A DIVISION OF THE FRANKEL FORCE ARRIVES AT MONMOUTH PARK
7/16/05 MP.com SEATS FOR AUG. 7 HASKELL INVITATIONAL NEARLY SOLD OUT
7/15/05 MP. com CRUZ SUFFERS FRACTURED KNEE, WILL BE OUT 4 TO 6 WEEKS
7/12/05 DRF.com TELL NO ONE SHOULD MOVE EARLIER THIS TIME AFTER SWITCH TO BRAVO; INDY WIND INJURED
7/11/05 DRF.com DECARLO KEEPING SOME EXCELLENT COMPANY
7/6/05 MP.com COSTA, TARRANT MULL PLANS FOR THEIR 3-YEAR-OLD STARS
7/4/05 MP.com

NEW JERSEY-BRED JOEY P. STAYS UNDEFEATED, SETS JERSEY SHORE STAKES RECORD OF 1:08 1/5; EASTERN GALE WINS GOLDFINCH

7/4/05 MP.com BRAVO, BREEN, JAYEFF B STABLES & HARDACRE FARM TOP RANKINGS
7/4/05 DRF.com SEREY EAGER FOR FRESH START TO HIS CAREER
7/3/05 MP.com TRAINER AMY TARRANT RIDING HIGH WITH UNDFEATED INDY WIND
7/1/05 DRF FRISKY SPIDER RETURNS IN TOUGH SPOT/APPRENTICE PODOBINSKI
6/27/05 DRF SEREY GETTING READY TO RECLAIM HIS SPOT
6/18/05 DRF BETTER THAN EVER'S NAME SAYS IT ALL
6/17/05 MP.com JOHN DOWD VISITS BEFORE HEADING SOUTH
6/15/05 DRF GILL DEPARTURE FREES UP STALL SPACE
6/12/05 MP.com PREAKNESS, BELMONT WINNER AFLEET ALEX MAY GO IN HASKELL
6/12/05 MP.com BRAVO, HILLS BACK ON TOP IN RACES FOR TOP JOCKEY, TRAINER
6/11/05 MP.com FOOTBALL LEGENDS ON HAND AT THE SHORE JUNE 26
6/10/05 ORR MAY RACING A SUCCESS FOR MONMOUTH PARK
5/28/05 MP.com MONMOUTH PARK TO ISOLATE NEW YORK SHIPPERS AMID POTENTIAL STRANGLES OUTBREAK
5/27/05 MP.com MONMOUTH PARK SETS POLICY FOR DELAWARE SHIPPERS AMID STRANGLES OUTBREAK
5/26/05 MP.com NORTH EAST BOUND'S NEW CAREER
5/12/05 DRF Bravo eats some crow after riding Derby rabbit
5/12/05 DRF Decathlon gets meet started, 2 weeks early
5/3/05 MP.com SURVIVAL AT THE SHORE BACK AT WWW.MONMOUTHPARK.COM
4/7/05 MP.com HORSES BACK AT MONMOUTH PARK - STABLE AREA OPENS FOR 2005 SEASON

 

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May 14-15, 2005

Good weather, good purses and good horses leads to good racing.  Opening weekend at Monmouth Park was just that, good racing.  And for the 23,000 plus fans that attended the races this past weekend, they were treated to good cards and excellent features including Smokume winning the Decathlon Stakes in Saturday's feature.  The four-year-old, Allen Jerkens trainee, came back to the shore to add another piece of hardware to her trophy case after winning the 2004 Gilded Time Stakes.  Click the link below to read the review and see the race.

 

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July 4, 2005

Oceanport, New Jersey

A big weekend of stakes action was capped off by two big Jersey Bred wins.  The first coming on Sunday, July 3rd as Smart N Classy won The Grade III Eatontown Handicap for owners Roseland Farm Stable.  The second was from Joey P. (pictured above) as he won impressively in The Grade III Jersey Shore Breeders' Cup Stakes on Monday July 4th.  The Frank Costa trainee ran his record to five for five lifetime covering the six furlong distance in a stakes record time of 1:08 1/5.  The win gave Costa his first graded stakes victory as a trainer.

 

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Better Talk Now takes command nearing the wire, after stablemate Shake The Bank set the pace, for the victory in The Grade I United Nations Stakes.

 

July 2, 2005

Oceanport, New Jersey

The holiday weekend was loaded with stakes racing action at the shore oval.  Above, Better Talk Now, from the Graham Motion barn, passed stablemate and pacesetter Shake The Bank late to win The Grade I UN.  In other action Joey P. won The Grade III Jersey Shore BC Stakes in stakes record time for trainer Frank Costa giving him his first graded stakes win of his career.

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August 6, 2005

Oceanport, New Jersey 

Haskell weekend was kicked off in grand style on Saturday, August 6, with the 2005 Edition of The Colleen Stakes for two-year-old fillies.  Trainer Jim Ryerson's barn has been hot and his trainee Livermore Valley kept the barn clicking on all cylinders winning the Colleen Stakes in impressive fashion for owner Conover Stable. 

 

 

   
 

MAY 2005

(R) DENOTES RACE VIDEO NOW AVAILABLE

SATURDAY, MAY 14

THE DECATHLON STAKES   (R)

SUNDAY MAY 15 THE OPEN MIND HANDICAP  (R)

SATURDAY, MAY 21

THE SELECT STAKES  (R)
SUNDAY MAY 22 THE JUST SMASHING STAKES (R)
SATURDAY, MAY 28 THE JOHN J. REILLY HANDICAP (R)
SATURDAY, MAY 28 THE RED BANK HANDICAP GIII (R)
SUNDAY MAY 29 THE FRISK ME NOW STAKES  (R)
SUNDAY MAY 29 THE BOILING SPRINGS STAKES GIII (R)
MONDAY MAY 30 THE FORT MONMOUTH STAKES  (R)
MONDAY MAY 30 THE JERSEY DERBY  (R)
JUNE 2005  
SATURDAY, JUNE 4 THE REVIDERE STAKES (R)
SATURDAY, JUNE 4 THE CANDY ECLAIR STAKES (R)
SUNDAY, JUNE 5 THE WOLF HILL STAKES (R)
SATURDAY, JUNE 11 THE  LONGFELLOW STAKES (R)
SATURDAY, JUNE 11 THE CORONADO'S QUEST STAKES (R)
SATURDAY, JUNE 11 THE BATTLEFIELD STAKES (R)
SUNDAY, JUNE 12 THE SPRUCE FIR HANDICAP (R)
SUNDAY, JUNE 12 THE POLITELY STAKES (R)
SATURDAY, JUNE 18 THE MONMOUTH BEACH STAKES (R)
SATURDAY, JUNE 18 THE CRANK IT UP STAKES (R)
SUNDAY, JUNE 19 THE BERNIE DOWD HANDICAP (R)
SUNDAY, JUNE 19 THE RESTORATION STAKES (R)
SATURDAY, JUNE 25 THE GILDED TIME STAKES (R)
SATURDAY, JUNE 25 THE WEST LONG BRANCH STAKES (R)
SUNDAY, JUNE 26 THE LITTLE SILVER STAKES (R)
JULY 2005  
SATURDAY, JULY 2 THE SKIP AWAY STAKES (R)
SATURDAY, JULY 2 THE UNITED NATIONS STAKES  GI (R)
SUNDAY, JULY 3 THE MR. PROSPECTOR STAKES (R)
SUNDAY, JULY 3 THE EATONTOWN HANDICAP  GIII (R)
MONDAY, JULY 4 THE JERSEY SHORE BREEDERS' CUP STAKES  GIII (R)
MONDAY, JULY 4 THE GOLDFINCH HANDICAP (R)
SATURDAY, JULY 9 THE SPEND A BUCK STAKES (R)
SATURDAY, JULY 9 THE MOLLY PITCHER BREEDERS' CUP HANDICAP GII (R)
SUNDAY, JULY 10 THE JOHN McSORLEY STAKES (R)
SATURDAY, JULY 16 THE ELKWOOD STAKES (R)
SATURDAY, JULY 16 THE LONG BRANCH BREEDERS' CUP STAKES GIII (R)
SUNDAY, JULY 17 THE RED CROSS STAKES (R)
SUNDAY, JULY 17 THE COLTS NECK HANDICAP (R)
SATURDAY, JULY 23 THE ANDERSON FOWLER STAKES (R)
SUNDAY, JULY 24 THE SERENA'S SONG STAKES (R)
SUNDAY, JULY 24 THE SALVATOR MILE HANDICAP GIII (R)
SATURDAY, JULY 30 THE TYRO STAKES (R)
SATURDAY, JULY 30 THE KLASSY BRIEFCASE STAKES (R)
SUNDAY, JULY 31 THE TRENTON STAKES (R)
AUGUST 2005  
SATURDAY, AUGUST 6 THE COLLEEN STAKES (R)
SUNDAY, AUGUST 7 THE LAMPLIGHTER STAKES (R)
SUNDAY, AUGUST 7 THE LINCROFT HANDICAP (R)
SUNDAY, AUGUST 7 THE TEDDY DRONE STAKES (R)
SUNDAY, AUGUST 7 THE LADY'S SECRET STAKES (R)
SUNDAY, AUGUST 7 THE OCEANPORT STAKES GIII (R)
SUNDAY, AUGUST 7 THE REGRET STAKES (R)
SUNDAY, AUGUST 7 THE TAYLOR MADE MATCHMAKER STAKES GIII (R)
SUNDAY, AUGUST 7 THE HASKELL INVITATIONAL HANDICAP  GI (R)
SATURDAY, AUGUST 13 THE SNEAKBOX STAKES (R)
SUNDAY, AUGUST 14 THE RUMSON STAKES (R)