Led by the Grade 1, $1 million Haskell
Invitational on July 27, Monmouth Park has announced a total stakes schedule of
$5.8 million, including 17 graded events worth $3.55 million, for the 2014 racing
season.
Each year the Haskell features some of the nation’s best three-year-olds
traveling 1 1/8 miles on the main track, and Haskell Day will
yet again play host to six stakes events, including five graded contests, in
2014.
The other four graded events are the Grade 2, $200,000 Molly Pitcher Stakes
for distaffers going 1 1/16 miles; Grade 2, $200,000 Monmouth Cup Stakes sending
older runners 8 1/2 furlongs; Grade 3, $150,000 Matchmaker Stakes for turf
distaffers at nine furlongs; and Grade 3, $150,000 Oceanport Stakes scheduled
for three-year-olds and up at 1 1/16 miles on the turf. The $100,000 Teddy Drone
Stakes will also take place that day.
Topping the list of notable changes to the stakes calendar
is a new date for the Grade 1, $500,000 United Nations which, for the first time since 2001,
will be run on a Sunday. Monmouth’s premier turf event — along with the Grade
3, $150,000 Salvator
Mile — will be broadcast live July 6 on Fox Sports 1 as part of The Jockey
Club Series.
Also being repositioned for the 2014 meet is the Grade 3, $100,000 Jersey
Shore Stakes, which was run on July 4 in past years but has been moved to August 16 for this
season.
Returning to the Monmouth Park graded stakes calendar after
a year hiatus is the Grade 3, $100,000 Violet and Grade 3, $100,000 Boiling
Springs.
As it did in 2013, the Grade 3, $100,000 Red Bank Stakes will kick off
this season’s graded stakes schedule when contested on May 17. Opening day for Monmouth’s 57-day meet is May 10.
MONMOUTH PARK’S
2014 MAJOR RACING EVENTS
| DATE | RACE | PURSE | AGE | DISTANCE | ||||
| May 17 | Red Bank
(G3) |
$100,000 |
3&up | 1m (T) | ||||
| June 8 | Monmouth (G2) | $200,000 | 3&up | 1 1/8m (T) | ||||
| June 15 | Pegasus
(G3) |
$150,000 |
3yo | 1 1/16m | ||||
| June 21 | Eatontown (G3) | $100,000 | 3&up, f&m | 1 1/16m (T) | ||||
| July 5 | Long
Branch |
$100,000 |
3yo | 1 1/16m | ||||
| July 6 | United Nations (G1) | $500,000 | 3&up | 1 3/8m (T) | ||||
| July 6 | Salvator
Mile (G3) |
$150,000 |
3&up | 1m | ||||
| July 27 | Haskell Invitational (G1) | $1,000,000 | 3yo | 1 1/8m | ||||
| July 27 | Monmouth
Cup (G2) |
$200,000 |
3&up | 1 1/16m | ||||
| July 27 | Molly Pitcher (G2) | $200,000 | 3&up, f&m | 1 1/16m | ||||
| July 27 | Oceanport
(G3) |
$150,000 |
3&up | 1 1/16m
(T) |
||||
| July 27 | Matchmacker (G3) | $150,000 | 3&up, f&m | 1 1/8m (T) | ||||
| July 27 | Teddy
Drone |
$100,000 |
3&up | 6f | ||||
| August 9 | Monmouth Oaks (G3) | $100,000 | 3yo, f | 1 1/16m | ||||
| August 16 | Jersey
Shore (G3) |
$100,000 |
3yo | 6f | ||||
| August 17 | Philip H. Iselin (G3) | $150,000 | 3&up | 1 1/18m | ||||
| August 23 | Violet
(G3) |
$100,000 |
3&up, f&m | 1 1/8m
(T) |
||||
| August 24 | Cliffhanger (G3) | $100,000 | 3&up | 1 1/8m (T) | ||||
| August 30 | Boiling
Springs (G3) |
$100,000 |
3yo, f | 1 1/8m
(T) |
||||
| August 31 | Sapling | $100,000 | 2yo | 1m |
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