Weekend Lineup Presented By Monmouth Park: Preakness Rematch In Haskell

Weekend Lineup Presented By Monmouth Park: Preakness Rematch In Haskell originally appeared on Paulick Report.

Three-year-olds are the primary focus this weekend, with the $1 million, Grade 1 Haskell and G1 Coaching Club American Oaks to be run on the East Coast, and Canadian-breds continuing on the road to the King’s Plate in Toronto.

The Haskell is a “Win and You’re In” for the Breeders’ Cup Classic, and half this year’s field has already made an appearance in a Triple Crown race. The 4-5 morning line favorite for the Jersey Shore G1 is Preakness winner Journalism.

The undercard of the Haskell includes the G3 Molly Pitcher, where last-out G1 Ogden Phipps winner Dorth Vader is favored. Twelve older males will go 1 ⅜ miles in the G2 United Nations on the grass.

The G1 Coaching Club American Oaks has attracted six fillies to go 1 1/8 miles. The field includes comebacking juvenile filly champion Immersive, last-out G1 Acorn winner La Cara, and Frizette winner Scottish Lassie.

After the Coaching Club American Oaks, the best sprinters on the East Coast will face off in the G2 Alfred G. Vanderbilt over six furlongs.

The final preps for the King’s Plate on Aug. 16, the Plate Trial and Woodbine Oaks, are part of a stacked card in Canada on Sunday. The preps drew 10- and 12-horse fields, respectively. Aside from the 3-year-olds, turf runners get opportunities to win a graded stakes in the G3 Connaught Cup and G3 Canadian Stakes.

Other racing action this weekend includes a trio of opening weekend turf stakes at Del Mar in Southern California, highlighted by the G2 San Clemente for 3-year-old filly milers on the grass.

Saturday

5:38 pm – G1 Coaching Club American Oaks at Saratoga

Champion juvenile filly Immersive takes over the favorite role in the Coaching Club American Oaks, due to the absence of her Kentucky Oaks-winning stablemate Good Cheer. The three-time G1 winner missed most of the spring with bone bruising, but came back to finish second in the Monomoy Girl Overnight by a head in June.

If Immersive is to win the Coaching Club American Oaks, she’ll have to chase down last-out G1 Acorn winner La Cara, and hold off Take Charge Milday, who got the better of Immersive in the Monomoy Girl Overnight.

CCAO Entries

5:45 pm – G1 Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park

The Haskell has attracted Triple Crown alumni: Journalism, Gosger, Burnham Square, and Goal Oriented. Those four are the top choices in the morning-line odds, with the Preakness victor Journalism the 4-5 favorite. Journalism has only been beaten by dual classic winner Sovereignty since breaking his maiden, but it took everything he had to get past Gosger in the Preakness.

Will Journalism be beaten again? Or will he continue to be one of the best 3-year-olds in the country?

Haskell Entries

Sunday

4:44 pm – Plate Trial at Woodbine

The likely favorite for the Plate Trial over 1 ⅛ miles on the synthetic is Notorious Gangster. The Josie Carrol trainee won the local Queenston Stakes last out and was second in the Woodstock Stakes on his seasonal debut. A potential upsetter might be two-time stakes winner Scorching, who was second in his 2025 debut in the G3 Marine Stakes three weeks ago.

Plate Trial entries

This story was originally reported by Paulick Report on Jul 17, 2025, where it first appeared.

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