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Last year's top state-bred sprinter and champion 3-year-old male Speaking began making his case for more accolades this year with a four-length romp in Sunday’s $106,000 New Jersey Breeders’ Handicap during the New Jersey Thoroughbred Festival at Monmouth Park.
He’spuregold rallied from off the pace to collar There Are No Words in the final sixteenth of a mile to win Sunday’s $85,000 Irish War Cry Handicap – the third straight year the Kelly Breen-trained son of Vancouver has won the race for New Jersey-breds.
“It’s a tremendous honor to receive this award because of what it means to Thoroughbred racing in New Jersey,” said McBurney.
Robust fields and a Jersey Pick 6 carryover of $18,043 will greet bettors on Friday for the start of the final weekend of the Monmouth-at-Meadowlands meet.
Monmouth Park showed a 25.2 percent increase in total handle and a 16.07 percent increase in on-track handle while Paco Lopez won his ninth riding title and Claudio Gonzalez earned his first training title as the Jersey Shore track closed out its 77th season on Sunday.