Navarro Sets Monmouth Single-Season Win Mark

Jorge Navarro saddled his 56th winner of the Monmouth Park meet Sept. 18 when Go Trumpy Go captured the final race, giving the trainer the single-season record for most wins at the Jersey Shore racetrack.

The previous record of 55 winners was established 41 years ago by John Tammaro III in 1974, during a 60-day meet, and equaled one year later by J. Willard Thompson when the racing season spanned 75 days.  Since then only two trainers had previouly reached the 50-wins mark: Mark Shuman with 50 in 2003 and Bruce Levine with 54 in 2008. Navarro had 47 wins in 2013, 43 in 2014, and 42 last year.

"I'm so proud of this accomplishment," said Navarro, a 41-year-old native of Panama who's been leading trainer at Monmouth since 2013. "I couldn't be more thankful to the owners that have given me the opportunity to train their horses. My entire crew works very hard and we will enjoy this moment for a long time to come.''

Navarro entered the penultimate weekend of live racing with 51 victories. He captured a pair of races on Saturday's program and scored a hat trick on Sunday's card, culminated by Rockingham Ranch's Go Trumpy Go, a son of War Front   who went wire to wire to win the finale.

Monmouth Park's 57-day 2016 racing season has two more live cards Sept. 24-25. Gates open 11:30 a.m. EDT with first post 12:50 p.m. both days.

Following next Sunday's program, live Thoroughbred racing shifts north to the Meadowlands for 14 all-turf cards, beginning Sept. 28.