This week’s Stronach 5 will include two races from Laurel Park, two from Santa Anita, and one from Gulfstream.
The North American foal crop is down 2.3 percent versus 2017, the Jockey Club said today.
Channel Cat swept past the leader and powered to an easy win in Saturday’s first-ever Bald Eagle Derby at Laurel Park.
Delaware Park’s annual Owners’ Day card saw a repeat winner and other strong performances.
A 25-1 longshot, Doctor Mounty upset the Grade 3 BWI Turf Cup over a yielding Laurel Park course.
Keeneland president and CEO Bill Thomason will be the new chairman of the board of the National Thoroughbred Racing Association.
Projected, winner of last year’s G3 BWI Turf Cup at Laurel Park, will look to defend that title in Saturday’s renewal of the race.
The multiple graded stakes-winning New Jersey-bred Irish War Cry will enter stud at Maryland’s Northview Stallion Station in 2019.
Next week’s Fasig-Tipton Midlantic fall yearling sale has added 55 hips to the catalog, the company said.
Driver Sam Miller won a harness race at Shenandoah Downs on Sunday — the 84-year-old’s first win in nine years.