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Overall Handle Up, On-Track Wagering Doubled At Monmouth

Monmouth Park in Oceanport, N.J., showed an increase in overall handle and nearly doubled its on-track handle for this year's 55-day meet compared to a year ago as the track concluded its 76th season on Sunday.

“We were happy to have our fans back, we had another memorable TVG.com Haskell Invitational, and we feel good about how Monmouth Park is positioned as we move forward and return to some sense of normalcy during these COVID-19 times,” said Dennis Drazin, chairman and CEO of Darby Development, the operators of Monmouth Park. “This wound up being a transitional year coming out of the worst of COVID-19 a year ago. We overcame some challenging weather, especially early in the meet, purses were very good and the quality of racing was excellent.”

Monmouth Park's overall handle for the meet was $173,511,161 compared to $167,511,608 a year ago.

The return of fans had a significant impact, with the on-track handle increasing to $15,216,978 compared to $8,917,436 a year ago.

The simulcast handle was down slightly from $158,594,172 in 2020 to $158,294,183 this year.

Monmouth conducted 44 days of live racing a year ago.

Jockey Paco Lopez wrapped up his eighth Monmouth Park riding title with a flourish on Sunday by booting home six winners to bring his final total to 109 for the meet. Runner-up Isaac Castillo had 55 winners. Lopez's eight titles are second in track history to Joe Bravo's 13.

Wayne Potts captured the training title with 38 wins after winning the abbreviated Meadowlands-at-Monmouth meet last fall.

Colts Neck Stables, with 14 winners from 34 starters, was the leading owner.

Thoroughbred racing in the state shifts to the Meadowlands in East Rutherford for the seven-day Monmouth-at-Meadowlands meet starting on Friday, Oct. 1. The six-race all-turf cards will have a first race post time of 7 p.m.

The Monmouth-at-Meadowlands meet will also hold live racing on Saturday, Oct. 2. The Friday-Saturday schedule will continue on Oct. 8 and 9 before shifting to just Friday on Oct. 15 and then to just Saturday on Oct. 23 and 30.

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Introduced Best In Incredible Revenge At Monmouth

It took a little longer than he might have preferred but trainer Jorge Duarte, Jr. has finally figured out the key to bringing out the best in Introduced, his talented 5-year-old mare.

Kept calm in pre-race for the second straight start, Introduced surged to a three-quarter length victory in Saturday's $100,000 Incredible Revenge Stakes at Monmouth Park in Oceanport, N.J., adding a grass stakes victory to the stakes win she earned in the slop in the Smart N Fancy at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., a year ago.

Kept just off the early speed duel between Running Memories and Miss Auramet, the race favorite, Introduced rallied past both in mid-stretch to post her second straight victory on the grass and eighth overall from 19 career starts.

In recent losses, Duarte has said Introduced often lost races before they were even run because of how high-strung and nervous she can get. But a new routine of having a pony accompany her to the paddock has seemed to keep the Maryland-bred daughter of El Padrino from getting overly worked up.

“I think we did a good job keeping her calm before the race,” said Duarte, who won both grass sprints on the card and is now 9-for-20 at the meet. “That has always been the biggest battle with her. She helped us because she didn't get too fired up. She was better pre-race today.

“We did the same thing as we did last race (a nose victory over Miss Auramet in an allowance at Monmouth on July 23) with the paddock routine and bringing her over with the pony and she was fine. I felt good when I put the tack on her. Everything was smooth. She has really been running big lately. I'm very pleased with her right now.”

Introduced's winning time for the 5½ furlongs over a firm turf course was 1:02.50.

Running Memories, who set the early fractions of :22.20 and :44.51, held on for second, one length ahead of Miss Auramet.

Owned by Colts Neck Stables and ridden by Albin Jimenez, Introduced paid $10.60 to win.

“My first time riding her, though I breezed her a couple of times. She's a nice filly,” said Jimenez. “I got a beautiful trip right behind the speed. Jorge told me there would be speed inside of her so just break and see where she is and take it from there. It could not have worked out any better. I had a nice, beautiful position. She's a very nice filly. I can tell that after riding her one time.”

Introduced now has five wins from 15 career grass starts. The $60,000 winner's share boosted her career earnings to $384,801.

Racing resumes at Monmouth Park on Sunday, with the $100,000 Jersey Shore Stakes headlining an 11-race card. The popular Jersey Shore Food Truck Festival will also wrap up its second day then.

First race post time is 12:15 p.m. Parking and admission are free.

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First Foal a Filly for Force the Pass

The first foal by Grade I-winning millionaire Force the Pass (Speightstown–Social Queen, by Dynaformer) arrived Feb. 4 at Murmur Farm in Maryland. The filly is out of Magical Point, a daughter of Point Given out of a stakes winning and producing full-sister to Grade I winner and sire Include (Broad Brush). Magical Point, the dam of three winners, and her filly are both owned by Wasabi Ventures Stables, who also stood Force the Pass at Anchor & Hope Farm in Maryland during the 2020 breeding season.

Racing as a homebred for Richard Santulli's Colts Neck Stables, Force the Pass won the GI Belmont Derby as a 3-year-old, having previously scored in the GIII Penn MileS. He added a victory in Monmouth Park's Cliff Hanger Stakes as a 6-year-old and placed in an additional half-dozen graded stakes. He is out of a multiple graded stakes winner.

Force the Pass stood a single season for Wasabi prior to his sale to Haif Stud in Saudi Arabia last summer, covering 57 mares at Anchor & Hope.

“This filly has everything you'd hope for in a stallion's first foal,” according to George Adams, Wasabi's Director of Stallions & Breeding. “She's got plenty of leg, lots of substance, and she's nice and correct. If they all look like this, the breeders are going to be very happy.”

For more information, contact George Adams at 617-595-8849, stallions@wasabistables.com, or visit www.forcethepass.com.

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Grade 3 Winner Name Changer To Stand At Kaz Hill Farm In New York

Grade 3 winner Name Changer, a son of emerging sire of sires Uncle Mo, has been retired to stud at Peter Kazamias' Kaz Hill Farm in Middletown, N.Y.

Name Changer, out of the four-time stakes-winning Northern Afleet mare Cash's Girl, won eight races and placed an additional 10 times in 24 lifetime starts, for earnings of $567,080.

A romping debut winner at age two going six furlongs versus maiden special weight company at Parx, Name Changer went on to win the Grade 3 Monmouth Cup Stakes, Aqueduct's Queens County Handicap and the Richard W. Small Stakes at Laurel, all going nine furlongs on the dirt. He also ran second in the Harrison E. Johnson Memorial Stakes at Laurel and third in the G3 West Virginia Derby. In total, he won or placed in black type company at seven different racetracks, from ages two to seven, all on the main track.

A homebred runner for the Colts Neck Stables, LLC of Richard Santulli, Name Changer hails from the immediate family of champion 3-year-old male and sire Afleet Alex, as well as major stakes winners including Seabhac, Unforgettable Max, and Topic.

He will stand for a fee of $2,500 live foal, stands and nurses, as property of Kaz Hill Farm, and a limited number of lifetime breeding rights are available, as well.

“Anyone paying attention to the leading sire lists knows something big is happening when it comes to Uncle Mo,” said Kazamias. “Not only does Uncle Mo himself have 14 graded stakes winners in 2020, more than any other stallion in the United States, but his sons Nyquist, Laoban and Outwork rank first, second and fourth on the North American leading first-crop sire list. With a powerful build reminiscent of his sire, and his undeniable racing class, it's easy to imagine Name Changer carrying on that tradition.”

Alan Goldberg, who trained Name Changer for his first four seasons before turning over duties to Jorge Duarte, Jr., said the horse stood out for his class, willingness and durability.

“He always showed up — the way the best offspring of Uncle Mo do,” Goldberg said. “Colts Neck Stables retained some breeding rights, and we're planning to send our New York-based mares to him.”

Bloodstock agent Michael Slezak, who brokered the deal to buy Name Changer and serves as Kaz Hill's manager of bloodstock, said the parallels between Uncle Mo and Name Changer make him a tremendous prospect.

“Uncle Mo's maiden win going six furlongs at Saratoga as a 2-year-old, that has to rank as one of the greatest debuts in the history of the sport,” he said. “Similarly, Name Changer showed the ability to win first time out as a 2-year-old at the same six-furlong distance — which really caught our attention. At the same time, Name Changer was still hitting the board in stakes company in November of his 7-year-old season – and that's a big selling point for smaller operations who rely on New York State breeders' awards and are trying to get runners who stay sound and competitive over multiple racing seasons.”

Slezak added he will be shopping the upcoming Keeneland January Sale and Fasig-Tipton February Sale to find additional mares for the horse's initial book.

“Kaz Hill already has a very deep broodmare band, but we want to make sure Name Changer gets the best possible start at stud,” he said.

To that end, Kazamias said Kaz Hill has priced seasons and breeding rights to make sure breeders in New York and the entire Mid-Atlantic region don't get left out of the action.

“We know that 2020 has been very hard on everyone in the horse business — especially regional breeders,” Kazamias said. “What we're hoping to do with Name Changer is give everybody — from the biggest commercial operations to the folks who only have one or two mares — a chance to hit it big without spending a fortune. Four years ago, Laoban started out in New York and now he's in Kentucky for a $25,000 fee. Big things can happen when you tap into the power of Uncle Mo.”

To date, Uncle Mo has sired 68 black-type winners — a gaudy seven percent black-type winners from foals of racing age — including 18 Grade 1 winners, in his first six crops.

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