Driving beautiful rockets to a victory. ((Julia Sebastianelli/Equivalent)
NJ Thoroughbred Festival Card in Monmouth Park
• Great Navigator scores New Jersey Breeders Handicap
• Call Pensiero wins eleven North Handicap
Trainer Eddie Owens records two posts; Jockey Samuel Marin wins five races
Tom Luci / Monmouth Park
Oceanport, NJ trainer Eddie Owens, Jr., has bred a number of good Jersey who is sometimes the most difficult part that they combine and match when the state-restricted races come to the racing calendar.
The Thoroughbred Festival on Sunday in New Jersey in Monmouth Park saw Owens pressing the right buttons.
Ride nicelyTaking it for the first time against men in her 27-race career, held for a neck victory in the $ 125,000 Charles Hesse III Handicap, which marks the third consecutive year that Owens has won the race with three different horses.
Then in $ 100,000 New Jersey Breeders Handicap, the Owens-Teaching Great navigator -Die de Charles Hesse III Handicap in 2023 won-dried to a victory of 4¼ length.
Call Pensiero held on to win through a head in the Elf North Handicap, the third Invenrace on the 12-race card.
“I am not worried at all to racing her against the boys because her best races around two innings are on the dirt and she has already proven herself in the jersey -bred mare and mare,” said Owens about driving the Jersey Girl Handicap on the grass in her final start. “Every time I put the saddle on her and her ask to run, she gives me everything she has. I can’t ask more than that.
“To win this race for three years in a row with three different horses (Sea Streak in 2024 and Great Navigator in 2023) is a huge achievement.”
Driving beautiful, a Holly Crest Farm HomeBred, won for the seventh time in 27 lifetime starts. The winning time for the mile and a sixteenth was 1: 46.12.
The victory was hard, with the driving of the Furious Late Late Load of Forever Chocolate. It was another 3¼ lengths back to AmatTeroftime in third place.
“I asked her half mile because I had the feeling, we went a little slow,” said winning Jockey Samuel Marin, who also rode Great Navigator and won five races on the map. “I drove her long (two starts back) on the dirt and they went a little slow and it cost her the race. I thought I had the best horse in the race that day, but she didn’t give me that kick at the end. This time I didn’t want to wait too much because she didn’t want to be on hold.
“It seems that every time she runs, she gets better.”
Driving beautiful, a 5-year-old daughter of Jack Milton, returned $ 9.80 to win.
Owens said that he had ‘mixed emotions’ about the result of the $ 100,000 New Jersey Breeders Handicap, since Great Navigator’s Stablemate, who got the early fractions, faded to last a long time.
Great navigatorA 5-year-old son of Sea Wizard and also a Holly Crest Farm HomeBred, earned his sixth victory from 22 career-start and returned $ 13.20 to win.
The winning time for the six Furlongs was 1: 10.09.
Not a cent became second, a lengths of 1½ times better than Grouch.
Great Navigator had been inactive since 8 June prior to Sunday’s victory.
“I don’t know if he came out of the gate last time, but he had a big cut after that race (a third place in the friendly lover),” said Owens. “I wanted to bring him to the grass again, but we had to wait, and this was the next place. He is always well run for me.
“He ran into a few tough horses in Gulfstream in the winter, so I can’t say that I am surprised by this.”
Samuel repeated those feelings.
“When I drove him the first time (two start ago), he came from Gulfstream where he did well and he trained well and I thought he was the best horse in the race, but he became second (to speak),” Marin said. “When I drove him the last race (a third place), he had a small problem in the race, and I told Eddie:” He is much better than this. We just have to give him a good journey. ” I was able to do that and he proved that he is a good horse.
Nice thoughtIn the meantime, which will be sold as a racing/breeding mood for views on the sale of phasig-tipton “Night of Stars” in November, according to Margotta, first had to keep the tough happiness howler and then quickly close my two Sophia’s for her sixth career victory.
The winning time for the six Furlong eleven North Handicap was 1: 11.23. Call Pensiero returned $ 7.40 to win.
“She had trained really well,” said Margotta. “We had the game plan to be directly from the pace, who was above that. We didn’t want the lead. (Jockey) Ramon Moya has done an excellent job to put her ahead. She is not a great dirty horse. She is much better on the grass.
The complexion of the race changed when the expected pace -setter Howler missed the break and then hurried to take the command that came from the last turn before he was tiring late.
That let Pensiero van de Flanken go early on the 77-1 shoot Kate’s Cuban kiss, who would finish last.
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