Grade 3 Pat Day Mile winner Sharp Azteca figures to be a major player in a stacked rewnewal of the City of Laurel Stakes on Saturday.
In our Preakness profiles, we provide an in-depth look at each of the contenders for Saturday’s big race. In this one: Awesome Speed.
Awesome Speed doesn’t have the best resume in Saturday’s Preakness, but trainer Alan Goldberg figured it’s worth “taking a shot.”
Yesterday and Today highlights the best of yesterday’s mid-Atlantic racing and looks ahead to today’s action.
After a head-bobbing battle, Awesome Speed was placed first via disqualification over Governor Malibu in today’s Federico Tesio Stakes.
Saturday’s allowance feature at Laurel Park will be a showdown including two stakes-winning distaffers; plus Laurel Park racing notes.
A pair of juveniles, Awesome Speed and Lost Raven, scored their first stakes victories today at Laurel Park on the De Francis Dash undercard.