Six stakes make up the 14-race Saturday card at Monmouth Park, where the $1 million Haskell Stakes will be renewed for the 58th time. The Haskell lineup includes 3 of the top 4 finishers in this year’s memorable Preakness Stakes. The main event goes as Race 12 with post time set for 5:45 pm ET.

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Let’s meet the contenders for the Haskell (Race 12):

#1 BRACKET BUSTER-: Front-running winner of Monmouth’s Haskell prep, the 1-1/16 miles Pegasus Stakes on June 14. That was the first stakes win for the Victoria Oliver trainee, who has been runner-up in Keeneland’s Lexington this spring before Haskell re-matched rival Gosger. Jockey John Velazquez is a 2-time Haskell winner (2006, Bluegrass Cat; 2013, Verrazano) and can be expected to employ early speed Saturday. The rail has produced 3 straight Haskell winners.

#2-JOURNALISM: The only horse to compete in all 3 Triple Crown legs this season, the Michael McCarthy trainee appears to have bounced out of the series eager for more. Connections could have waited for more time or closer spots to his Santa Anita home base, but aggressively come east a second time in 2025. Exaggerator in 2016 was the last Preakness winner to add the Haskell – and was the fifth between 2008-’16 to do so. He’s the 4-to-5 morning line choice coming out of his Belmont Stakes second-place finish to Jim Dandy-bound Sovereignty.

#3 WILDNCRAZYNIGHT-: 31-1 Pegasus Stakes runner-up is 30-1 longest shot on the morning line for the Haskell while making his fifth local start. Most experienced runner in the field has been to post 10 times overall, including a New Jersey-bred allowance sprint win here May 25. Son of Midnight Lute, who won the 2007 Breeders’ Cup Sprint at Monmouth and repeated a year later at Santa Anita.

#4-BURNHAM SQUARE: Rallying winner of the Holy Bull and Blue Grass this spring, the Kentucky Derby sixth-place finisher bounced out of that test with a runner-up in the Matt Winn at Churchill Downs. He’s been training on the synthetic surface at Ian Wilkes’ Skylight Training Center since and will reunite with regular rider Brian Hernandez Jr.

#5-NATIONAL LAW: No threat fourth of 6 in the Pegasus Stakes when more than 8 lengths behind Haskell rival Bracket Buster et al. Grey by Constitution debuted fourth at Monmouth last summer and represents local connections Colts Neck Stables LLC. Second-longest shot in the Haskell morning line at 20-1 odds but lures top pilot Irad Ortiz Jr. for the first time.

#6-GOSGER: Daylight leader late in the Preakness Stakes at 15-1 odds before Journalism reeled him in over the final strides. Son of 2016 Kentucky Derby winner Nyquist had won 2 straight prior, including the 1-1/16 miles Lexington at Keeneland and a 1-turn mile at Gulfstream. Jockey Luis Saez won this race last year aboard Dornoch as well as 2019 with Maximum Security. Returned to the workout tab at his Churchill Downs base in mid-June with the Haskell targeted.

#7-KENTUCKY OUTLAW: Monmouth’s Long Branch Stakes winner skipped the Pegasus in favor of the Delaware Derby, where he tired late to be third as the 9-5 favorite. Jockey Florent Geroux piloted Haskell winners in 2021 Mandaloun and 2022 Cyberknife and takes over the mount for the first time. Parx-based colt by Outwork hails from the tiny stable of owner-trainer Felissa Dunn, which has won with 13 of 36 starters in 2025.

#8-GOAL ORIENTED: Bob Baffert has a record 9 Haskell victories on his ledger, most recently Authentic in 2020. This lightly raced colt finished fourth in the Preakness after absorbing several bumps in upper stretch while making his stakes debut. He had 2 prior wins in maiden and allowance company, including an April 6 unveiling at his Santa Anita home base. Flavien Prat has been aboard in his last 2 and returns to the saddle, having won last Saturday’s Grade 1 Diana at Saratoga.