Lovely Maria, winner of the G1 Kentucky Oaks, is even-money on the morning line for Saturday’s G3 Delaware Oaks, where she’ll face seven rivals.
Trainer Graham Motion has won six of the 18 runnings of the G3 Robert Dick Memorial at Delaware. Lady of Gold is one of his two shots to win a seventh.
Though two members of the Top Midlantic-bred Poll ran unsuccessfully this past weekend, two other horses bred in the region scored in Grade 2 events.
Two newcomers — Lady Eli and Private Zone — enter the NTRA Top Thoroughbred Poll, which continues to be dominated by American Pharoah.
Big Blue Kitten won his second G1 United Nations, while Bradester upset the G3 Salvator Mile at Monmouth Park on Sunday. Our mid-Atlantic stakes wrap.
The Grade 3 Dr. James Penny Memorial, at Parx, and Monmouth’s Elkwood Stakes took place yesterday.
Four-year-old Got Lucky turned the tables on Stiffed, upset winner of the Monmouth Beach, in yesterday’s G3 Molly Pitcher at Monmouth Park.
What’s on tap: three graded events, Top Midlantic-breds, and more.
Stiffed, the upset winner of the May 24 Monmouth Beach, aims to make it two straight in this afternoon’s Grade 3 Molly Pitcher at Monmouth Park.
Laurel Park has canceled live racing for July 3 as a result of a water main break that has left 30,000 without water.