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Get Serious trainer John Forbes wins the $250,000 Monmouth Stakes on Saturday, June 12, 2010 on the turf of Monmouth Park in Oceanport, New Jersey. Photo by Bill Denver/EQUI-PHOTO.
The Far Hills Steeplechase Race Meeting pays tribute to the late John Forbes, a fixture at Monmouth Park as a trainer for 40 years and former president of the New Jersey Thoroughbred Horseman’s Association. Saturday, October 15th.
The 101st Far Hills Race Meeting will offer $575,000 in prize money across six races at Moorland Farm in Far Hills, New Jersey.
The only flat race in the program, the John Forbes Memorial is contested over two miles of grass. It is the final race of a 6-race card with a prize pool of $100,000.
Forbes passed away on January 31, 2021 at the age of 73.
“John Forbes has been synonymous with Monmouth Park in various capacities for 40 years. said Denis Dragin, Chairman and CEO of “It’s only fitting that we have a race named in his honor.”
Forbes won 2,174 races in a 40-year training career that began in 1972. He retired from training in his 2012 to concentrate on jockey matters, and when the group took over the lease of the Park from The New to Monmouth, New Jersey, he became president of his association with Thoroughbreds. . Jersey Sports & Exposition Authority. He topped his five times at Monmouth Park as his trainer and won his seven training titles at Meadowlands.
Forbes Horse of the Year, Tale of the Cat, finished fourth in the 1997 TVG.com Haskell Stakes.
He helped launch the career of jockey Julie Krone in the 1980s and 1990s, who was a regular Forbes rider and was inducted into the Hall of Fame.
The Far Hills Race Meeting is first posted at 1pm and will be simulcast nationally.
