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The Green Monkey entered for career debut

Posted: Thursday, September 13, 2007 3:10 PM

THE GREEN MONKEY IN THE SALES RING
AT THE 2006 FASIG-TIPTON CALDER SELECTED SALE
OF TWO-YEAR-OLDS IN TRAINING

Photo by Z

A year and a half since becoming the most expensive horse ever purchased at public auction, The Green Monkey is set to make his career debut on Saturday at Belmont Park.

The three-year-old Forestry colt is entered in the fourth race, a six-furlong maiden special weight contest that drew a field of six three-year-olds. The other five horses have all made at least one start.

Jockey John Velazquez will ride The Green Monkey for trainer Todd Pletcher and owners Michael Tabor, Derrick Smith, and Susan Magnier, who bought the Florida-bred colt for $16-million from consignor Hartley/De Renzo Thoroughbreds in the 2006 Fasig-Tipton Calder selected sale of two-year-olds in training.

The Green Monkey worked four furlongs in a sharp :47.15 in his most recent workout on September 8.

Tabor, Smith, and Magnier also own The Leopard, who will seek his first stakes win later in the card in the Futurity Stakes (G2). The Storm Cat colt topped this year’s Fasig-Tipton Calder sale on a final bid of $2.5-million.

The race after the Futurity, Rags to Riches will resume her career for Tabor and Smith in the Gazelle Stakes (G1), which will be her first start since winning the Belmont Stakes (G1) in June.

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