Charles Town Races will kick off its 2023 season with a nine-race Wednesday card featuring six races slated to have full starting gates.
Jockeys Angel Cruz and Jeiron Barbosa deadheated for the Laurel Park fall riding title, while Brittany Russell took home the training title.
Jevian Toledo won four races on the Laurel Park Friday card, capped by a win aboard NImitz Class in the Robert T. Manfuso Stakes.
Trainer Brittany Russell could become the first woman to finish the year as Maryland’s leading trainer – but she has to catch Claudio Gonzalez to do so.
Trainer Dale Caupano, one of the most successful Maryland-based trainers of recent years, will retire at the close of the upcoming racing weekend.
He won’t have the favorite, but trainer Gary Capuano is expected to have two legitimate shots to win Friday’s $100,000 Carousel Stakes at Laurel Park.
With three of his four career stakes wins in Maryland, Maryland-bred Jaxon Traveler probably is looking forward to returning for Friday’s Dave’s Friend.
Laurel Park will delay its Christmastide stakes card December 26 until Friday, December 30, the track announced.
Fille d’Esprit, a winner of five stakes already in 2022, will look to make it a half-dozen in Monday’s Willa On the Move at Laurel Park.
Onetime claimer Armando R enters Monday’s Manfuso Stakes at Laurel Park seeking his third consecutive stakes victory.