McKay Turf Sprint: Former nickel claimer Oak Bluffs on rise
Once a $5,000 claimer, Oak Bluffs may enter the McKay Turf Sprint as a logical contender for trainer Mary Eppler.
Once a $5,000 claimer, Oak Bluffs may enter the McKay Turf Sprint as a logical contender for trainer Mary Eppler.
Justify was installed as the 1-2 morning line favorite for Saturday’s Preakness Stakes, plus the full field’s odds and post positions.
The undefeated Goodonehoney is headed to the Black-Eyed Susan Stakes and providing her owner-breeder, and her trainer, “the time of our life.”
It was a nondescript race on a nondescript day, but it produced a special moment when jockey Edgar Prado won his 7,000th career race in a claiming tilt at Parx Racing Tuesday.
Good Magic galloped at Pimlico Tuesday morning, the third Preakness contender to do so, and his connections like what they see from the Derby runner-up.
The Supreme Court ruled that the law banning states from allowing sports betting is unconstitutional; Monmouth Park cheered, while the NTRA greeted the news warily.
Promising sophomore fillies face off in the Black-Eyed Susan, while six graded winners will tackle the Pimlico Special.
Court Date took Charles Town’s It’s Only Money Stakes to give trainer Lela Hanagan the first stakes win of her young training career.
Veteran Greenway Court has won the It’s Only Money in four of the last five years and is one of the top contenders to take the 2018 running Saturday at Charles Town.
Maryland’s breeders and horsemen are backing Retired Racehorse Project cofounder Steuart Pittman’s campaign for Anne Arundel County exec.