Big Plans for Monmouth Park

Since the New Jersey Horsemen’s Association completed a 35 years lease of Monmouth Park from the New Jersey Sports Exposition Association, changes for the Jersey Shore track have been slowly being released. 

 

First the racing calendar that was announced is based on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday racing, but this year adds four Twilight Thursdays in August with 4pm post times.  The $1,000,000 Haskell will be back on July 29^th.  In addition there will be 10 Monmouth at the Meadowlands racing dates where there will be turf racing only.  The first of those dates are Kentucky Derby weekend on May 4 and 5. Racing begins to Monmouth on May 12.

 

Two entities have been formed to run Monmouth Park for the NJTHA. Dennis Drazin, who for years has been a prominent figure with the NJTHA, along with Robert Kulina will head Elite Consulting LLC to manage the racing side of Monmouth Park.

 

Brian and Robert Drazin head Darby Development Co., which has plans for the development of the land surrounding the track. Morris Bailey had similar plans to develop the Monmouth property.  It seems Bailey’s guidance will be part of this management team.

 

For more information on the Monmouth racing dates and on the development plans check out these links: