Monmouth Park
Preakness and Belmont Winners to Battle at Haskell
Shackleford and locally-stabled Ruler On Ice among eight elite three-year-olds set to face off in Monmouth Park's main event July 31
Preakness Stakes winner Shackleford is headed for the $1 Million Resorts Casino Haskell Invitational next Sunday at Monmouth Park, where local trainer Kelly Breen's wily Ruler On Ice will be waiting for him. When the two horses last met at the Belmont Stakes on a wet Saturday in early June, Ruler On Ice charged through the mud past a tired Shackleford in the final turn of the one and a half mile course. Neither horse has raced since the Belmont. Dale Romans has been training Shackleford at Churchill Downs in Kentucky, most recently running 59.60 in a five furlong (5/8 mile) workout on Sunday. Ruler On Ice also ran Sunday, clocking in at 1:02.60 over five furlongs at Monmouth. Fire and Ice Ruler On Ice is not the only horse that Breen, of …
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