
Colonial Capsule: Recapping the racing weekend
Nick Hahn recaps the racing weekend at Colonial Downs.

Nick Hahn recaps the racing weekend at Colonial Downs.

Maryland’s Board of Public Works signed off July 1 on the purchase of Laurel Park to serve as a Thoroughbred training center – for the second time.

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Because of the impending blistering heat, Colonial Downs has moved its first post up to 10:45 for Thursday through Saturday.

If clothes make the man, does equipment make the horse? Bits and blinkers figured prominently in Saturday’s Laurel stakes.

With the retirement of Muad’dib, one-turn dash specialist Duncan Idaho has become the standard-bearer for West Virginia’s first equine family.

A Mandaloun filly showed by Country Life Farm was named the Grand Champion at Sunday’s 92nd annual Yearling Show in Timonium.

Because of the incoming extreme heat, Delaware Park has made several schedule adjustments, including canceling two days of racing.

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Jockey Yedsit Hazlewood, shifting his tack to Ellis Park for the summer, won five times Sunday at Laurel to secure his fifth straight meet title.

In a pair of Delaware stakes pulled off the turf, jockey Carol Cedeno notched the first stakes win of her comeback season and Miss Fulton Gal also won.
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