Category: Pennsylvania

Mid-Atlantic three stars: July 14, 2025

Your five-minute read to catch up on racing highlights from around the Mid-Atlantic this past week!

Your five-minute read to catch up on racing highlights from around the Mid-Atlantic this past week!

Pennsylvania-bed Witty, winner of the Jim McKay Turf Sprint at Pimlico in May, will make his first Saratoga foray in Friday’s Harvey Pack.

Weather delayed it and scratches damaged it, but Dream On thrived in the G3 Penn Mile all the same, winning by a length Friday at Penn National.

Laurelin, undefeated and a two-time stakes winner in three starts, puts her undefeated ledger on the line in Friday’s $150,000 Penn Oaks.

The twice-delayed Grade 3 Penn Mile is set for June 27 and is headlined by Grade 1 winner Zulu Kingdom for trainer Chad Brown.

Riding around the Mid-Atlantic, jockey Mychel Sanchez won 12 times last week to earn Jockeys’ Guild Jockey of the Week honors.

Paco Lopez won a dozen races, including three stakes, last week to share Jockeys’ Guild Jockey of the Week honors with Umberto Rispoli.

The Grade 3 Penn Mile, originally scheduled for May 30 but pushed back for three weeks, now will be delayed to June 27 because of weather issues.

For the lifelong friends who are Irish Three Racing, Irish Maxima, entered in the G2 Bed o’ Roses, is taking them on a ride they never imagined.

Penn National will delay its Penn Mile card stakes, while Delaware Park will postpone the Cape Henlopen in the face of persistent rains.

An evenly matched field of nine will contest Friday’s Penn Oaks, with stakes-placed Candy Quest the tepid 3-1 favorite.

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