Grade 3 winner Divining Rod, third in the 2015 Preakness, is favored in his first start of ’17 in Saturday’s Polynesian Stakes at Laurel Park.
Special Envoy and Queen Caroline proved best in a pair of Virginia-bred stakes at Laurel Park in June and will try to reprise those efforts on Saturday.
Three-year-old Goiaba — Portuguese for guava — romped to a six-length win in her career debut at Laurel Park today.
No Dozing, placed in four graded stakes, is 6-5 on the morning line for the seven-furlong Concern Stakes at Laurel Park.
Laurel Park’s Stormy Blues Stakes Saturday has attracted a talented field, with multiple stakes winner Morticia perhaps the most accomplished of all.
In a terrific renewal, Whitmore was up late to win the Grade 3 Maryland Sprint Handicap Saturday at Pimlico.
A. P. Indian, who won four graded races in 2016, is expected to make his first start of ’17 for trainer Arnaud Delacour in Keeneland’s G3 Commonwealth Stakes.
Five Maryland-based runners finished first or second in stakes company out of town this past weekend, including four in graded races.
Trainer Arnaud Delacour likens his role training babies to that of a teacher with a roomful of precocious students: he “can’t wait for school to start.
With a six-race win streak, A. P. Indian has a chance to prove he’s the best sprinter in the country. Trainer Arnaud Delacour says he’s ready.