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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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Transfer of Claimed Horse in NY Results in Penalties for Potts, Chichakly

The claim and subsequent transfer of a horse within the prohibited 30-day time frame mandated by the New York State Gaming Commission (NYSGC) has resulted in a 30-day suspension and $2,000 fine for trainer Wayne Potts and a $2,000 fine without suspension for trainer Amira Chichakly.

DRF.com's Dave Grening first reported the story Monday. His story quoted Potts as explaining that he had ownership clients wanting to claim a horse out of the second race at Saratoga Race Course Aug. 4, but that Potts told them he couldn't because he had already made a commitment to another owner who wanted to claim a different horse out of the same race.

Since a trainer is only allowed to make one claim per race in New York, Potts said he gave the clients Chichakly's contact information. According to the DRF story, Chichakly agreed to try and make the claim and was able to buy Mach One by dropping a $20,000 slip for owners Frank Catapano and Nicholas Primpas.

Three days later, that horse was transferred from Chichakly to Potts. Potts told DRF there had been an owners' misunderstanding about not being able to transfer a claimed horse within 30 days. Chichakly said in the same story “she was unaware that she was claiming the horse with the idea it was going to be moved to another trainer.”

Chichakly has appealed the fine and has been granted a stay until the matter is fully adjudicated.

According to the NYSGC ruling, Potts waived his right to appeal, and in exchange, 10 days of his suspension will be stayed providing he has no violations of the same “restricted transfer” rule within the next year. His 20-day banishment runs Sept. 30 through Oct. 19.

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Wayne Potts Suspended 20 Days For NYRA Claim Violation

Trainer Wayne Potts, currently leading the standings at Monmouth Park, has been suspended for 20 days by the New York State Gaming Commission for a claiming violation at Saratoga, reports the Daily Racing Form. The suspension will run from Sept. 30 through Oct. 19.

Mach One was claimed at Saratoga on Aug. 4, by trainer Amira Chichakly for owners Frank Catapano and Nicholas Primpas. On Aug. 7, the horse was transferred to Potts.

According to NYSGC rule 4038.4, “if a horse is claimed it shall not be sold or transferred to anyone wholly or in part, except in a claiming race, for a period of 30 days from the date of the claim.”

Potts alleges that he tried to claim another horse in the same race; in New York, trainers are not allowed to claim more than one horse from the same race. He gave Catapano and Primpas contact information for Chichakly, who contends she was not aware she was claiming the horse to be transferred to Potts.

Potts said that Primpas believed he couldn't run the horse for 30 days, not that he couldn't transfer it for 30 days.

Chichakly was fined $2,000 for her role. Potts was initially given a 30-day suspension as well as a $2,000 fine, but 10 of those days were stayed as he waived his right to a hearing.

Potts Suspended 15-Days For New Jersey Medication Violation

Wayne Potts, leading trainer at the 2021 Monmouth Park meet in Oceanport, N.J., received a 15-day suspension and $500 fine from the track's board of stewards for an overage of the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory flunixin (trade name Banamine).

Potts indicated to Daily Racing Form he will appeal the ruling – which set the suspension dates from Sept. 1-15, inclusive – adding that he would likely wind up serving the suspension at the beginning of the 2022 meet. Potts was also assigned a half point under the multiple medication violation (MMV) program.

Kentucky Cool won the second race at Monmouth for Potts and owner Bruno Schickedanz on June 5 and was subsequently found by Industrial Laboratories of Wheat Ridge, Colo., to have flunixin at 10.1 nanograms per milliliter in his blood sample, twice the amount permitted.

Potts told Daily Racing Form that Kentucky Cool may have inadvertently received two doses of flunixin – one at Belmont Park, where he was stabled, and another at Monmouth Park after arriving there two days before the race.

Potts, with 24 wins from 93 starts at Monmouth Park this year, was most recently sanctioned for a medication violation in 2019.

Kentucky Cool was disqualified from the June 5 race with the $13,200 purse money he earned redistributed. He was claimed from that race by owner-trainer Anthony Foglia and has subsequently finished fifth (of five runners), 10th (of 10), eighth (of 9) and third (of nine).

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