
Onus, Renown star in Laurel route stakes
Onus set a course record in winning the Lady Baltimore Stakes at Laurel Park, while Renown cruised in the Laurel Turf Cup.

Onus set a course record in winning the Lady Baltimore Stakes at Laurel Park, while Renown cruised in the Laurel Turf Cup.

Three Laurel Park undercard stakes were won by horses making their first tries in stakes company, one with a rider winning her first-ever stake.

Janine Melnitz — named for the secretary in Ghostbusters — makes her first foray into stakes company in Saturday’s Rosenberger. Plus odds and analysis.

Cathryn Sophia remained the unanimous choice of voters as the region’s best three-year-old, while Stellar Wind holds down the top spot among older horses.

Yesterday and Today highlights the best of yesterday’s mid-Atlantic racing and looks ahead to today’s action.

Our Gary Quill caught up and spent a few minutes with jockey Steve “Cowboy” Hamilton, returning to riding after a decade away.

Debut winner Fly will look for a second straight score in Saturday’s Selima at Laurel Park. Plus odds and analysis of the race.

Greatbullsoffire looks for a third straight win Saturday in the Laurel Futurity — but other rivals should factor. Odds and analysis.

Saturday’s Tax Free Shopping Distaff at Delaware Park may run through 3-time champ Galiana. If not there’s an opening for Papa’s Forest, trained by Joe Sharp.

Yesterday and Today highlights the best of yesterday’s mid-Atlantic racing and looks ahead to today’s action.

In her final Spa Diary of 2016, Teresa Genaro recaps some happy (and not so) firsts and expresses an age-old desire for the Old Spa.

Trainers Claudio Gonzalez and Wayne Potts benefited from trainer bonuses during the just-concluded Timonium meet, which saw handle grow 12 percent.
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