Three-year-old Poppy Flower eared the first stakes win of her career Sunday at Laurel Park when she surged to victory in the Stormy Blues Stakes.
In a thriller at Monmouth Park, Mind Control fought back to defeat Hot Rod Charlie narrowly, topping a Haskell preview day with four stakes.
Last year’s Maryland Million Turf winner Somekindofmagician will make his first start since in Saturday’s Find Stakes at Laurel Park.
Former claimer Fille d’Esprit dazzled, and Ny Traffic wasn’t bad, either, in a pair of MATCH Series stakes Friday at Penn National.
Off to the Races returns to the airwaves June 18 with an exciting show featuring interviews with Jill Byrne and Alan Foreman.
The Maryland Horse Breeders Association has announced the results of its most recent board of directors election, which sets one-third of the board.
MATCH Series actions shifts to Penn National for Friday night, as the track hosts the Susquehanna Valley and Chocolatetown for older sprinters.
The MATCH Series will move to Parx Racing Tuesday with a pair of turf contests, the Neshaminy for fillies and mares and Bensalem for open company.
Never far back, Mo Donegal surged to the lead with a furlong to go and went on to win the Belmont Stakes, giving trainer Todd Pletcher his third Belmont.
Pennsylvania-bred Caravel earned the second graded stakes win of her career with a front-running score in the Grade 3 Intercontinental at Belmont Park.