Paco Lopez won a dozen races, including three stakes, last week to share Jockeys’ Guild Jockey of the Week honors with Umberto Rispoli.
Roanan Goddess, a two-time stakes winner on dirt, returns to that surface in Sunday’s Weather Vane at Laurel Park.
The Colonial Downs dirt course was lightning fast Sunday, which played to the strengths of a pair of stakes winners in Arlington Million undercard races.
Trainer Butch Reid has runners in five Pimlico stakes this weekend, and the U-Maryland grad says it’s special to have his first Preakness starter.
Trainer Butch Reid’s barn won almost 20 stakes this year, capped by Carmelina’s decisive win in Saturday’s Gin Talking Stakes at Laurel Park.
Keswick Stakes winner Carmelina hasn’t done much wrong on dirt. In today’s Selima at Laurel Park, she’ll try to transfer that form to the grass.
A pair of Pennsylvania-breds, Carmelina and Going Up, scored in Colonial Downs two-year-old stakes Saturday, with the latter especially impressive.