Monmouth Park cards two “win and your in” Breeder’s Cup Challenge races this weekend.

In the United Nations some of the best turf horses in the country will compete for the top prize from the purse of $750,000. Locally based Presious Passion was a wire-to-wire winner in last year’s edition and leads the other seven runners to post and will likely be on the lead barring any unforeseen missteps.

Lauro looks to be the one who will be chasing Precious Passion and gets a new rider in Jorge Chavez and today’s distance appears to be where he performs best. He exits the G1 Manhattan as does several other runners in here but with all the rider changes on horses exiting the Manhattan it appears that race won’t provide the winner today.

Strike A Deal finished second to Presious Passion in last years running of the United Nations and appears to be one of the main rivals again this year.

Banrock was the runner up to Presious Passion in his last start and gets a new rider in Joe Bravo who has always been a leading rider at Monmouth. He will be closing late to just get beat a nose in his first race over the Monmouth Park turf course. He will likely be closing again but without much competition on the front-end for Presious Passion he’ll have to work to get up.

The likely scenario sees Presious Passion winning the race on the lead with Strike A Deal again running second and Banrock completing the trifecta.

You can see the Daily Racing Form past performances for the race by clicking here.

So what you might say. Well, not much else to say except coincidental is all.

Loved Birdstone that year.

Convinced that the Triple Crown may be a thing of the past until this year when two “sons of stone” impressed the racing world winning two thirds of America’s greatest horse racing achievement the Triple Crown. And 2009 will be a year remembered as the year that a filly named Rachel Alexandra had every right to be considered the real victor having upset Mine That Bird in the Preakness.

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