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Golden Brown with Paco Lopez wins the John J. Reilly Handicap at Monmouth Park.
Put Golden Brown in the familiar surroundings of Monmouth Park in Oceanport, N.J., and then against Jersey-breds, and good things tend to happen for gritty 6-year-old gelding.
They did again on Sunday, when Golden Brown showed good early speed to work his way into contention and then flashed his strong closing kick as he added to his impressive career credentials with a 2¾-length victory in the $75,000 John J. Reilly Handicap for state-breds.
Though trainer Pat McBurney remains unconvinced that six furlongs is the best distance for the son of Offlee Wild, it was hard to make that case after he covered the six furlongs in 1:09.
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Historically picked up his first stakes win by scoring a commanding victory in Saturday’s $75,000 Daniel Stearns Cleveland Gold Cup at Jack Thistledown in North Randall, Ohio. The brown gelding, a son of Carpe Diem – Delitefully Wild, by Offlee Wild, bested eight rivals to capture the one and one eighth mile contest in 1:53.68 […]