Patrick Moquin

For the seventh of eight consecutive Monday programs, Gulfstream Park will offer a mandatory payout on the 20-cent Rainbow 6. The wager begins will require bettors to parse through several deep claiming fields.

Souper Williwaw made the most of a perfect ground-saving trip under Charlie Marquez on Saturday at Monmouth Park, edging away to win the $100,000 Violet Stakes by 2 1/4 lengths.

Call the Bullpen returned to Gulfstream Park and earned her first stakes victory in the $100,000 Miss Gracie on Saturday. Trainer Carlos David said he would rather enter a stakes for 3-year-olds than an allowance against older rivals, and his filly rewarded that decision.

Happy Offering, a steadily improving gelding trained by Chuck Spina, earned his first New Jersey-bred stakes victory in the $100,000 Charles Hesse III Handicap on Sunday at Monmouth Park.

Much of the action at Charles Town on Friday will run through Saffie Joseph Jr., who has nine horses entered in stakes on the 13-race card.

Intraosseous is one of many juveniles fillies shipping to Monmouth Park for a distance test in the $100,000 Sorority Stakes on Saturday.

Gulfstream Park will conclude its Royal Palm Meet with its final Monday program on Aug. 31, offering a mandatory payout on the Rainbow 6 for the eighth consecutive week.

For the second straight year, the Grade 2, $1 million Charles Town Classic was decided between Willy D’s and Banishing, and after coming up short in 2025, Willy D’s exacted his revenge with a 1 3/4-length gate-to-wire victory on Friday.

Emphatic has now lived up to her name in two career starts for trainer Brendan Walsh, following up a commanding maiden victory with a similarly dominant 5 1/4-length romp in the $100,000 Sorority Stakes. The juvenile filly wasted little time in a stalking position and was never in trouble on Saturday at Monmouth Park.

Sharons Beach made the most of her stakes debut in the $250,000 St. Louis Derby at Fairmount Park, pulling off a 9-1 upset with a perfect trip under jockey Rajiv Maragh.