Because of high entry volume, the Fasig-Tipton fall yearling sale in Timonium will take place over two days rather than the one originally scheduled.
Under Chris DeCarlo, Tricky Escape rallied from last to win the Grade 3 Violet Stakes at Monmouth Park.
Teresa Z earned the first stakes score of her career, taking the G3 Monmouth Oaks Saturday.
Three-year-old Shimmering Aspen dominated her elders in an easy win in the Twixt Stakes, her second straight stakes score.
The talented Shimmering Aspen, a winner in four of six starts, is the morning line favorite for Saturday’s Twixt Stakes at Laurel Park.
Grade 3 winner Divining Rod, third in the 2015 Preakness, is favored in his first start of ’17 in Saturday’s Polynesian Stakes at Laurel Park.
Longshot Rapid Dan surged to a clear win in Laurel Park’s Sunday allowance feature.
Old-timer Two Notch Road and newcomer Northern Eclipse took Virginia-bred sprint stakes at Laurel Park this afternoon.
Page McKenney, Divining Rod, and Shimmering Aspen are among some serious horsepower nominated to two Laurel sprint stakes August 12.
Swoop, a seven-year-old Maryland-bred trained by Elizabeth Voss for her mother, won today’s Mrs. Ogden Phipps Stakes over jumps at Saratoga.
