Sunday, July 27, 2008

LOCAL HOPES WILL SQUARE OFF IN OCEANPORT ON HASKELL DAY

The 62nd running of the $150,000 Oceanport Stakes (G3) at a mile and a sixteenth will be one of the highlights of the Haskell Day undercard on Aug. 3, and three Monmouth-based runners are expected to be among the main rivals.

Topping the local contingent is Patricia Generazio’s Presious Passion, who is coming off a victory in the Grade 1 United Nations Stakes. Trainer Mary Hartmann said the Oceanport will serve as a prep for Presious Passion’s run at another Grade 1 turf event * the $500,000 Sword Dancer Invitational at a mile and a half on August 16 at Saratoga.


Hardacre Farm’s Kiss the Kid will be looking for his first graded stakes victory in the Oceanport. The 5-year-old by Lemon Drop Kid finished second in the race last year. Owner-trainer Amy Tarrant’s horse was second to upset winner Fagedaboudit Sal in the Bob Harding Stakes here last out.

Trainer Terri Pompay will try to get the 8-year-old Hotstufanthensome back to his stakes-winning ways. The son of Awesome Again, who won the Elkwood Stakes in 2005 and was second in the 2006 running of the Oceanport, made his way back to the winner’s circle last out on July 3. It was his sixth victory at Monmouth in 12 lifetime starts here.

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