LRL: Remembertheword spells victory
Corrales, Robb swap narrow weekend wins
Frank Vespe
May 23, 2026
“Horses,” mused longtime Laurel Park trainer Jose Corrales after Saturday’s second race, “You do your job, and then the horses do the rest.”
And sometimes, the rest that they do is pretty good.
That was the case Saturday when Remembertheword overcame a three-wide journey to win a $47,000 maiden special weight contest for two-year-olds by a head over the hard-trying Pelican Pier. Running time for the 4 ½ furlongs was 53.76 seconds on a sloppy, sealed main track.
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“He’s a baby,” Corrales said. “But I think he has a future.”
Remembertheword, a homebred for Charles Parker’s Barak Farm, is a gelding by Thousand Words out of the winning Giant’s Causeway mare Requesting. He was a good second, behind Call Me Micky J, in his debut May 2.
“When you get on him, he gives you a lot,” Corrales said. “I mean, he’s still green, but he looks like he’s gonna be a distance horse.”
With top apprentice Yedsit Hazlewood up, Remembertheword broke alertly and moved to press the pace three wide. Pelican Pier seized a narrow advantage while Corrales’ other entrant, Baru, was between those two, as the quarter-mile went by in 23.67 seconds.
Approaching the quarter pole, Baru began to back away as the principle combatants hooked up. Remembertheword seemed to take charge in upper stretch, but he wandered a bit and failed to switch leads while Pelican Pier fought back. The margin was a head at the wire, with Island Bandit nearly three lengths farther back in third.
Remembertheword paid $6.60 as the second choice in the field of six. The exacta returned $14.40 for a one-dollar wager.
Laurel has conducted four two-year-old races thus far in 2026, but only five trainers have been represented thus far: Corrales, Jerry Robb, John Salzman, Jr., Megan Salzman, and Jim Chapman.
Salzman, Jr. won the earlier straight two-year-old race with Call Me Micky J, while Robb has won both filly races. Robb scored May 1 with Costa Linda and again Friday with The Stork Club.
The Stork Club, by Engage, is a homebred for Robb and his wife Gina Robb’s No Guts No Glory Farm. Out of the Great Notion mare Gracie’s Hero, she is a half-sister to the stakes winner Do It for Michael and the nearly-$400,000 earner Mama G’s Wish.
“This mare was a giveaway,” Gina Robb said. “And she’s as crooked as the day is long. She had no life outside of being a brood mare, and she’s done great.”
Under jockey Jeiron Barbosa, The Stork Club pressed the early pace of stablemate Paris by Night before taking over and holding off the bid of the Corrales-trained Gypsy Lullaby by three parts of a length.
So on Friday, Robb held off Corrales. On Saturday, Corrales was able to turn the tables.
“Even though the other horse come back on him and everything like that, he still fought about it, and it’s pretty good,” Corrales said of Remembertheword. “Horses like that, I think they have a good future.”
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