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The racetrack and part of the stands during the 2007 Breeders' Cup. Three different buildings have been called Monmouth Park throughout the years. The original thoroughbred racing track was opened by the Monmouth Park Association on July 30, 1870 in Eatontown, New Jersey to increase summer tourism for communities along the Jersey Shore.
King For A Day, with Joe Bravo riding upset Maximum Security and Luis Saez to win the $150,000 TVG.com Pegasus Stakes at Monmouth Park Racetrack in Oceanport, NJ on Sunday June 16, 2019.
Monmouth Park’s stakes schedule was to be worth $8.05 million in the track’s 79 th summer of racing, with 48 stakes races, including 10 graded stakes. The Haskell is now the track's only Grade ...
Tuscan Sky #1 with Javier Castellano riding won the $150,000 NYRA Best Pegasus Stakes at Monmouth Park Racetrack in Oceanport, NJ on Saturday June 15, 2024. Photo By Ryan Denver/EQUI-PHOTO.
The Rumson Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race held at Monmouth Park Racetrack in Oceanport, New Jersey. Currently, the race is open to horses age three and older and is contested on dirt at a distance of five furlongs. It offers a purse of $75,000. [1] The race is named for the community of Rumson in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
In 1946 Thoroughbred racing returned to a new Monmouth Park facility, spurred on by the burgeoning American economy after the end of World War II. From inception until 1966 the race was known as the Monmouth Handicap; then from 1967 through 1980 it was run as the Amory L. Haskell Handicap.
Monmouth Park has a long history of great track announcer, including Larry Collmus (1994-2014), who calls the Triple Crown and Breeders’ Cup races for NBC.
The Jersey Derby is a $100,000 American Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds held annually in late July/early August at Monmouth Park Racetrack in Oceanport, New Jersey. Since 1993, it has been raced on grass at a distance of 1 + 1 ⁄ 16 miles. [1] A Jersey Derby was run on June 7, 1864, at a racetrack in Paterson, New Jersey.