Devamani Cruises To Victory In Monmouth Stakes Sponsored by: Devamani #4 with Nik Juarez riding won the $150,000 Grade III Monmouth Stakes at Monmouth Park Racetrack in Oceanport, NJ on Saturday June 5, 2021. Photo By Ryan Denver/EQUI-PHOTO. Riding a Chad Brown-trained horse in a graded grass stakes certainly provides an advantage for a jockey but Nik Juarez likes to get any additional edge he can. So he ran the turf course at Monmouth Park early Saturday morning to get a feel for how it would play for the first grass races of the meet following heavy rains earlier in the week. The combination of Brown's turf acumen and Juarez' morning run over the surface proved to be a winning one when Devamani skimmed the rail late to surge for 1½-length victory over favored Winters Back in the $156,000 Grade 3 Monmouth Stakes Saturday afternoon.