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Wednesday, May 09, 2012
The anchor of racing at Monmouth is the $1,000,000 Haskell Invitational, which this summer will be run on Sunday, July 29th. After lunch I had the opportunity to ask Bob Kulina which Bob Baffert horse should we expect at the Jersey Shore?
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Sunday, April 29, 2012
Glenn Thompson has been a trainer of thoroughbred racehorses for over 30 years and his horses have never had a positive post race drug test. Thompson has been invited to be a witness at a US Congressional Subcommittee on Health hearing to be held in Kennett Square, PA, on Monday, April 30.
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Monday, April 16, 2012
How many Kentucky Derby glasses do you own?
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Monday, April 02, 2012
My son Riley is eleven years old and he has autism. Autism is a complex disorder that affects brain development and is characterized by difficulties with social interaction and verbal and non-verbal communications.
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Sunday, March 11, 2012
Since the New Jersey Horsemen’s Association completed a 35 years lease of Monmouth Park from the New Jersey Sports Exposition Association, changes for the Jersey Shore track have been slowly being released.
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Wednesday, March 07, 2012
Week three of the Run to the Roses contest is upon us and I don’t know about you, but I have a very big decision to make with my stable.
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Friday, February 10, 2012
His first winner, Majestic Number, came in February of 1996. On Saturday Pletcher has horses entered in seven races at Gulfstream and two races at Aqueduct. Interestingly his entry in race 4 at Gulfstream is also named Majestic Number.
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Tuesday, February 07, 2012
The NJ Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association has offered a new bid to lease Monmouth Park. The Asbury Park Press reported the new offer this morning Feb.7 on app.com.
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Saturday, February 04, 2012
Alpha’s third victory has earned mixed reviews in the Twitterverse. Here’s what some of our tweeps had to say.
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Monday, January 30, 2012
Saturday’s grade three Withers Stakes marks the second stop on the 2012 New York Derby Trail. This year in New York there is $250,000 more of the Derby qualifying graded money available and the sequence of the races has been changed.
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Meet Matt Shifman
In the 70’s I was another one of those kids that went to the track with their fathers, and I immediately became enthralled with the excitement and challenges of handicapping. And then the charisma and dominance of Secretariat gave me a hero to follow. To this day, I still get emotional when I hear Chic Anderson’s call of the 1973 Belmont, “Secretariat is moving like a tremendous machine”.
There have been many great horses run at the shore. In 1976 I watched Majestic Light win the Monmouth Invitational, now the Haskell, in track record time, defeating Honest Pleasure, the big favorite who was in from New York. This was one of my first big wins at the track.
In the 80’s, as a disciple of Andy Beyer, I made my own speed figures because they were not available to the public. Needless to say I visited Monmouth frequently to test out the “figs”.
The 90’s allowed me to learn about the backstretch as a part owner of a few claimers that were stabled at Philadelphia Park. Not a typical owner, I mucked stalls, cooled out the horses, and watched morning works. Also, I met my wife and discovered that her grandfather bred, owned, and raced thoroughbreds on the West Virginia, Maryland circuit. Today our office is decorated with winner’s circle pictures and a vast collection of Kentucky Derby glasses.
Today’s electronic age makes it so easy to gather information about racing. I hope you use this blog to learn about Racing at the Jersey Shore.