Grade III race | |
Location | Parx Casino and Racing Bensalem, Pennsylvania, United States |
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Inaugurated | 2002 (as Turf Monster Handicap) |
Race type | Thoroughbred - Flat racing |
Website | Parx |
Race information | |
Distance | 5 furlongs |
Surface | Turf |
Track | left-handed |
Qualification | Three years old and older |
Weight | Base weights with allowances: Older: 126 lbs 3YOs: 122 lbs |
Purse | $300,000 (2019) |
The Turf Monster Stakes is a Grade III American Thoroughbred horse race for three years old or older, over a distance of five furlongs on the turf held annually in September at Parx Casino and Racing racetrack in Bensalem, Pennsylvania. As of 2019, the event currently carried a purse of $300,000.
The race was inaugurated on May 27, 2002[1] with an attractive purse offered of $100,000[1] as the Turf Monster Handicap.
In 2011 the event was upgraded to a Grade III.[2]
The event has attracted fast sprinters from the East Coast of the US, including Pure Sensation, who won this event four times[3] and Ben's Cat who won this event twice.[4]
The race was not held in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[2] In 2021 the ten-year-old Hollywood Talent finished with a late surge and won by 1+1⁄4 lengths at odds of 108-1,[5] but the horse was later disqualified after drug testing found the prohibited substance levamisole.[6]
Speed record:
Margins:
Year | Winner | Age | Jockey | Trainer | Owner | Distance | Time | Purse | Grade | Ref |
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2023 | Nobody Listens | 5 | Tyler Gaffalione | Tim Eggleston | Matt Kwiatkowski, Jason Kaylor & Roger D. Browning | 5 furlongs | 1:01.40 | $250,000 | III | [7] |
2022 | That's Right | 3 | Andy Hernandez | Michael M. Moore | James A. Shannon Jr. | 5 furlongs | 57.66 | $300,000 | III | [8] |
2021 | † Beer Can Man | 3 | Flavien Prat | Mark Glatt | Little Red Feather Racing & Sterling Stables | 5 furlongs | 59.51 | $300,000 | III | [5] |
2020 | Race not held | |||||||||
2019 | Pure Sensation | 8 | Paco Lopez | Christophe Clement | Patricia A. Generazio | 5 furlongs | 57.80 | $300,000 | III | [9] |
2018 | Pure Sensation | 7 | Kendrick Carmouche | Christophe Clement | Patricia A. Generazio | 5 furlongs | 56.42 | $300,000 | III | [10] |
2017 | Pure Sensation | 6 | Kendrick Carmouche | Christophe Clement | Patricia A. Generazio | 5 furlongs | 57.13 | $300,000 | III | [11] |
2016 | Doctor J Dub | 6 | Sheldon Russell | Jena Antonucci | Drawing Away Stable | 5 furlongs | 58.73 | $300,000 | III | [12] |
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2015 | Pure Sensation | 4 | Kendrick Carmouche | Christophe Clement | Patricia A. Generazio | 5 furlongs | 55.81 | $300,000 | III | [13] |
2014 | Sharp Sensation | 4 | David Moran | Reade Baker | Jim & Susan Hill | 5 furlongs | 57.39 | $300,000 | III | [14] |
2013 | Stormofthecentury | 5 | Stewart Elliott | Louis V. Ruberto Jr. | Beechwood Racing Stable | 5 furlongs | 57.44 | $350,000 | III | [15] |
2012 | Ben's Cat | 6 | Julian Pimentel | King T. Leatherbury | The Jim Stable | 5 furlongs | 1:00.62 | $350,000 | III | [16] |
2011 | Ben's Cat | 7 | Jeremy Rose | King T. Leatherbury | The Jim Stable | 5 furlongs | 57.30 | $356,000 | III | [17] |
2010 | Chamberlain Bridge | 6 | Jamie Theriot | W. Bret Calhoun | Carl R. Moore Management | 5 furlongs | 56.63 | $251,000 | Listed | [18] |
2009 | Chamberlain Bridge | 5 | John R. Velazquez | W. Bret Calhoun | Carl R. Moore Management | 5 furlongs | 57.14 | $250,000 | Listed | [19] |
2008 | True to Tradition | 6 | Kendrick Carmouche | Scott A. Lake | Ben Mondello & Adam Russo | 5 furlongs | 56.17 | $250,000 | Listed | [20] |
2007 | Smart Enough | 4 | Joe Bravo | John R. S. Fisher | Edith R. Dixon | 5 furlongs | 55.53 | $200,000 | Listed | [21] |
2006 | Max West | 6 | Jose Luis Flores | Juan Carlos Guerrero | Juan Carlos Guerrero | 5 furlongs | 56.63 | $100,000 | Listed | [22] |
2005 | Worldwind Romance | 7 | Ryan Barber | Mark Shuman | Michael J. Gill | 5 furlongs | 57.07 | $100,000 | Listed | [23] |
2004 | Abderian (IRE) | 7 | Victor H. Molina | Benjamin M. Feliciano Jr. | Richard A. Englander | 5 furlongs | 57.53 | $100,000 | Listed | [24] |
2003 | Testify | 6 | Greta Kuntzweiler | Randy L. Morse | Robert S. Mitchell Trust | 5 furlongs | 1:00.15 | $100,000 | Listed | [25] |
2002 | Joe's Son Joey | 4 | Nick Santagata | Timothy A. Hills | Joseph R. Lunetta | 5 furlongs | 57.73 | $100,000 | Listed | [26] |
Notes:
† In 2021, Hollywood Talent finished first but was later disqualified due to a medication violation.[6]