At Sunday’s 83rd annual MHBA Yearling Show, a pair of horses from Chanceland Farm took the highest honors.
Two new turf starter handicaps have been added to what will now be an 11-race Maryland Million program this October.
Daylight Ahead went to the lead and held off her rivals to win today’s Jameela Stakes at Laurel Park.
The annual Totally Thoroughbred show, to benefit the Beyond the Wire horse retirement program, is Sunday at Pimlico.
O Dionysus, unraced since April, may make his return in the Concern Stakes at Laurel Park in July.
In the latest NTRA Top Thoroughbred Poll, Arrogate remains the unanimous top choice, while three-year-olds aren’t getting much respect from voters.
A pair of Grade 3 events – the Salvator Mile and the Pegasus – top the Saturday and Sunday cards, respectively, at Monmouth Park.
Jockey Trevor McCarthy had successful shoulder surgery this week but isn’t expected to get on a horse for six more months.
Grade 1 winner Yellow Agate and local hopeful Shimmering Aspen are the headliners in Saturday’s Alma North Stakes at Laurel Park.
Hansel, the Virginia-bred who took the 1991 Preakness and Belmont Stakes, has been euthnanized as a result of the infirmities of old age.