Presious Passion

Presious Passion

Presious Passion Gets Frisky In Winners Circle

Banrock

Banrock

Court Vision

Strike A Deal And Brass Hat

Coal Play

Salvator Mile Gate Break

Coal Play An Easy Winner In Salvator Mile

Two Step Salsa

Smooth Air

Solar Flare

Kiss The Kid

Coal Play Is A Winner

Power Game

Dinner With DC Wins 1st Out For Breen

Debut Winner Dinner With DC

Dinner With DC

Cuba

Big Crowd

Clubhouse Teletheatre

Clubhouse Teletheatre

United Nations Day Re-Cap

It was another great day at Monmouth Park. Presious Passion exploded out of the gate and never looked back in route to winning the United Nations for the second consecutive year. In the process, he smashed the old course record of 2:12.89 held by English Channel. He eclipsed that mark by almost two full seconds in 2:10.97. He set blazing fractions throughout the race and was never headed as he hit the wire first. At one point, he opened up a 20-length lead as he cruised along all by himself. The 6-year-old son of Royal Anthem is getting better with age, as he turned in his best effort of his career in winning the United Nations. There was a nice crowd around the winner’s circle to greet the champion as he returned from winning. He was a bit frisky in the winner’s circle, as he reared up and kicked once, but settled down for the winning snap shots. Presious Passion paid $7.40 and was the second choice, behind favorite Court Vision. Lauro (Ger) was second two lengths behind. He also earned a trip to the BC at Santa Anita…

Coal Play went to the lead and never looked back, taking the Salvator mile in front running fashion. Last year’s runner up to Big Brown in the Haskell certainly likes Monmouth Park. Coming off a big win last out at Belmont Park, Coal Play was in solid form as he was no match for the rest of the field. He also earned a spot in the dirt mile at Santa Anita, although it is not dirt. Coal Play paid $14.40 and favorite Smooth Air finished second.

A crowd of 15,210 showed up for the 4th of July T-Shirt give-a-way and was treated to a super day of racing, capped with a course record setting win by the home town hero Presious Passion.

Presious Passion Wins The Monmouth Stakes

Presious Passion

Banrock- Desormeaux Up

Banrock- Desormeaux Up

Strike A Deal -CC Lopez Up

Strike A Deal

Grand Couturier - Bravo Up

Proudinksy Gets Lip Service

Presious Passion

Kiss The Kid Acting Up

Kiss The Kid Is A Handful

The Mayor

Phipps Stable's Profitable

Stronach's Devil's Victory

Devil's Victory

Raising Timber

IEAH's Michael Iavarone

Michael Iavarone Signs Big Brown Bobble Heads

Newest Banner

Gate Break

From Picnic Area

Big Brown Bobble Head

These snap shots are from June 13, 2008. It was Big Brown Bobble Head Day. It was a decent crowd, rain came late. Michael Iavarone signed snap shots of Big Brown and bobble heads for about an hour, and Big Brown became the newest member of Monmouth Parks Hall of Champions and the newest banner dropped. During the time he was signing one of IEAH’s horses, Please Impress won an off the turf race. Told him before the race, his horse looked superb on the track as he galloped alone without a pony…

The Monmouth Stakes was a spectacular race. Once again Presious Passion ignored on the board, took the lead opened up, hooked at the bend and passed, but dug in to regain the lead and fended off Banrock, in one of the most exciting races of the year so far.

Race 6 was a maiden special weight that ThoroughbredZone went over. Easy Gallop was scratched. Bounty Heroes in fact did run in New York. He was fractious before the start of the race and did not want any part of the gate. Raced into contention, but could not get to the winner late. Raising Timber, was well bet. Raced decent, but did not have enough late. Nice looking colt, has speed and Stronach Stable’s Devil’s Victory got off to a poor start, and was never a factor finishing up the track. He did however, looked super in the paddock. There is a pic above of him. Would think this race was a toss. He should run better next out.

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