Trainer Brittany Russell, leading the state with 12 Maryland stakes wins this year, has a quartet pointed at Laurel’s Saturday distaff stakes.
Sea Dancer, a younger half-sis to one of the top turf horses in the country, earned her first stakes win in Saturday’s Carousel at Laurel Park.
Copper Tax and Speedyness, separated by a combined total of one length in two previous meetings, meet again in Saturday’s Manfuso Stakes at Laurel Park.
Jockey Jevian Toledo won a pair of stakes, one aboard ageless Greeley and Ben, who earned his 25th victory, to top the stakes Saturday at Laurel Park.
Saturday’s Robert T. Manfuso Stakes anchors a four-stake day at Laurel Park and features graded winners Magic Michael and Double Crown.
He won’t have the favorite, but trainer Gary Capuano is expected to have two legitimate shots to win Friday’s $100,000 Carousel Stakes at Laurel Park.
Cordmaker put the exclamation point on his MATCH Series triumph with a dominant win in the Robert T. Manfuso Stakes Sunday at Laurel Park.
Belle of the North, rallying upset winner of the Safely Kept, will look for her second straight stakes win in Sunday’s Carousel at Laurel Park.