Alogon returns at Monmouth Park in Get Serious Stakes attempt
Alogon’s seven-month layoff makes the Get Serious a key read on his place in the East Coast turf-sprint hierarchy. A strong return would point to another summer run at the older stakes level.
Alogon’s seven-month layoff makes Sunday’s Get Serious Stakes more than a seasonal debut at Monmouth Park. Ned Allard is sending the 7-year-old gelding back into a five-furlong turf sprint to see whether one of the East Coast’s most reliable older grass sprinters still has the same snap after a longer-than-planned freshening.
The $100,000 Get Serious for 3-year-olds and up is part of an eight-race card, with the $100,000 Lady’s Secret Stakes at 1 1/16 miles for fillies and mares serving as the co-feature. The Get Serious field was trimmed to six when Nothing Better, one of the original entrants, ran instead at Penn National on Thursday. For Allard, the bigger question is whether Alogon can use this spot as a launch point for the rest of the summer.
Alogon has not raced since his Grade 3 Belmont Turf Sprint victory on Sept. 27, 2025, when he outfinished Bold Journey by a neck in 1:07.63 over firm turf. That win completed another step up the ladder for a horse who has been dangerous on grass for years, even if he has not always gotten the same billing as flashier names in the division. He also was third in the Grade 1 Jaipur at Saratoga in 2025 and finished third in the Get Serious in 2023, a reminder that Monmouth has already seen him mix it up at this level.
His résumé now carries 24 starts, 7 wins, 3 seconds and 6 thirds, with all seven victories coming on turf and earnings of $633,799. Equibase lists him as a Kentucky-bred foaled April 21, 2019, by California Chrome out of Scamper by Scat Daddy. Before his Belmont Turf Sprint breakthrough, Alogon had already stacked up meaningful grass credentials with wins in the Wolf Hill Stakes on the Haskell undercard in 2023, the listed Aqueduct Turf Sprint Championship in 2024 and the listed Parx Dash in 2024.
Allard’s confidence in the gelding has long rested on a simple profile: Alogon wants to sprint and wants the grass. That belief grew out of two poor dirt starts at Oaklawn Park in 2022, after which owner-breeder Charles T. Matses moved him from Danny Peitz to Allard and the horse became a far more effective turf specialist. Allard said he wanted Alogon ready in early May, but age pushed the timeline back about a month longer than usual.
If Alogon returns with his old punch, the Get Serious could be the first step toward another summer campaign built around turf speed and class. If he needs the race, it will still tell the East Coast sprint division how much of that late-2025 edge remains intact.
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