
Rodney Jenkins, Victor Carrasco have “excuses to stay home”
Count trainer Rodney Jenkins and rider Victor Carrasco among those who figure to appreciate the “excuse to stay home” this summer at Laurel Park.

Count trainer Rodney Jenkins and rider Victor Carrasco among those who figure to appreciate the “excuse to stay home” this summer at Laurel Park.

The Virginia Racing Commission endorsed a proposal to run nine stakes — including the G2 Virginia Derby — in Maryland this year. But hurdles remain.

With Laurel Park’s first significant July racing in over a decade about to start, Maryland trainers are excited and optimistic — some cautiously so.

Normandy Invasion, fourth in the 2013 Kentucky Derby, finished second today in a Delaware Park allowance in his first start in a year.

Juan Vazquez tossed from Delaware, Preakness a moving target, plus more of the day’s headlines…

Laurel Park’s summer meet kicks off Friday with a new Super Hi 5 wager and twilight racing each Friday.

It’s American Pharoah and then everybody else in the June 23 NTRA Top Thoroughbred Poll.

A yearling bred by Katy Voss and Bob Manfuso was judged best in the Maryland Horse Breeders Association (MHBA) annual yearling show Sunday.

For Alfred Vanderbilt III — whose father, Sagamore Farm founder Alfred II, goes into racing’s Hall of Fame in August — this has been a year of honoring legacies.

The Grade 3 Eatontown, the Turning for Home, and the Mr. Prospector were all on the docket this weekend.

Happy My Way hasn’t scored in over a year, but his connections hope two good recent efforts presage a victory in today’s Mr. Prospector at Monmouth Park.

Trainer Randy Nunley, his wife Tracy, and mother-in-law Carole are carrying on his late father-in-law John’s business: winning races for Porter Racing.
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