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Monmouth Cup

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Inaugurated
  
1977

Surface
  
Dirt

Website
  
www.thebigm.com

Purse
  
200,000 USD

Location
  
Monmouth Park Oceanport, New Jersey

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

Distance
  
1 ⁄8 miles (9 furlongs)

The Monmouth Cup is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Monmouth Park in Oceanport, New Jersey each fall and is open to horses, age three and up, willing to race one and one-eighth miles on the dirt. The race was held at Meadowlands Racetrack and called the Meadowlands Cup until 2010, when it was moved to Monmouth Park. A Grade II event, it currently carries a purse of $200,000.

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Inaugurated in 1977 at a distance of  1 1⁄4 miles, it was modified to its present  1 1⁄8 miles in 1990. The 1990 running posed one of the largest upsets in North American racing history when Great Normand won at 181-1 odds There was no race held in 1997.

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Records

Speed record: (at current distance of  1 1⁄8 miles)

  • 1:46.00 - K. J.'s Appeal (1998)

    • Most wins:

  • 2 - Etched (2009, 2010)
  • 2 - Bradester (2015, 2016)

    • Most wins by a jockey:

  • 4 - Angel Cordero, Jr. (1977, 1978, 1983, 1986)
  • 4 - John R. Velazquez (1998, 2001, 2004, 2006)

    • Most wins by a trainer:

  • 2 - Ron McAnally (1977, 1992)
  • 2 - Robert J. Frankel (1982, 1993)
  • 2 - Todd A. Pletcher (2004, 2006)
  • 2 - Kiaran McLaughlin (2009, 2010)
  • 2 - Eddie Kenneally (2015, 2016)

    • Most wins by an owner:

  • 2 - Darley Stable (2009, 2010)

    • References

    Monmouth Cup Wikipedia
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