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.
Jockey Sheldon Russell won four Saturday at Laurel Park to move into second behind Victor Carrasco in the standings.
Queen Caroline, a two-time stakes winner at Laurel, is among 95 nominated to four Virginia-bred stakes slated for Laurel August 5.
The new jackpot wager Charles Town will offer starting August 17 will carry a takeout of twelve percent.
New Jersey-bred Irish War Cry — owned by the daughter of Amory Haskell — is favored in Sunday’s Haskell Invitational and will break from the inside post.