Tricky Escape storms to G3 Violet win
Under Chris DeCarlo, Tricky Escape rallied from last to win the Grade 3 Violet Stakes at Monmouth Park.
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.
Special Envoy and Queen Caroline proved best in a pair of Virginia-bred stakes at Laurel Park in June and will try to reprise those efforts on Saturday.