Monster Romps with nine lengths to break his girl on 23 May in Gulfstream Park (Coglianese)
Tom Luci / Monmouth Park
Oceanport, NJ – Trainer Jose d’Angelo Immediately recognized that 2-year-old Colt Sample Was both early and fast. What lasted a little longer to find out was that his preference appeared was grass.
Ten weeks after he was blinded with a nine-length victory in Maiden Special Weight Company who will chase five furlongs on the turf in Gulfstream Park to set up fractions of 20.4 and 43.1-ointment Monster after his first effort in Saturday’s Tyro Stakes in Monmouth Park.
The Tyro Stakes of $ 100,000, also with five furlongs on the grass, has attracted a field of 10 first -year grass sprinters.
“He was my early 2-year-old. He did everything perfectly,” said D’Angelo. “So I sent him to Keeneland and he did not break well. That is normal stuff for babies in their first start. I thought I would try him again in a race in a bet (the Kentucky Juvenile) at Churchill Downs.
“That didn’t work as we had hoped, so I worked him on the grass and showed that he immediately liked it. Then he proved it when he won nine lengths on the grass at Gulfstream.
“So he is now a grass horse.”
A son bred by Florida LeinsterMonster slowly broke out of post 12 in his debut in Maiden Special Weight Company at Het Vuil in Keeneland on April 7. Then he chased the speed on the dirt in the Kentucky Juvenile and finished a tiring sixth.
The peat print romp on 23 May at Gulfstream changed everything for Monster.
“The way he was training, I felt that he was good enough to win on dirt,” said D’Angelo. “When it didn’t work, I knew we had to try something else. I was sure that he would do something good in the grass race in Gulfstream because he trained so well in the morning.”
Gulfstream Park-based Jockey Edgard Zayas, who rode Monster in his grass, flies in for the mountain.
The only unknown variable that is on its way on Saturday is that the 10 -week dismissal sample started, although D’Angelo sees that as a much needed respite for a young, the developing horse that was made in 46 days on three different tracks in early spring.
“It was good to give him a small break,” said D’Angelo. “After he won on the grass, there was no way to go. There are just not many 2-year-old races on the grass sprinting at the time of the year.
“So I think the resignation was good for him because he has already had three races on three different songs. He is still growing. I think he is better now than he has ever been. He is ready. We waited until he ran back on the grass.”
Monster, owned by Arindel, will break from post 1, which D’Angelo also regards as an advantage.
“I love the postal position,” he said. “I think he’s the speed of the race when you look at the fractions from when he won in Gulfstream.”
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