Two Emmys scratches from Monmouth's Oceanport Stakes

Grade 1-winning gelding Two Emmys was scratched from the $100,000 Oceanport Stakes on Sunday at Monmouth Park because trainer Mac Robertson was denied a license by the New Jersey Racing Commission.

Robertson himself provided an explanation for the commission’s refusal to license him, acknowledging that he received a sentence of two years unsupervised probation from a Fayette County, Kentucky, court this past spring after being convicted of disorderly conduct there. Robertson said he has had no issues with licensing in other states where he races, such as Kentucky, Arkansas, and Minnesota.

Bargain yearling purchase Two Emmys won the Grade 1 Mr. D. Stakes (formerly and currently the Arlington Million) last summer and the $300,000 Muniz Memorial in March while trained by his co-owner, Hugh Robertson, Mac Robertson’s father. Hugh Robertson is taking time off in Nebraska and turned many of his horses that had been based in Chicago — where there is no thoroughbred racing this summer — over to his son’s Delaware Park-based operation. Mac Robertson said Two Emmys could target the Cape Henlopen stakes on September 8 at Delaware.

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