Colonel Sharp impressed in a front-running allowance win over a field that included the comebacking multiple graded stakes winner Something Awesome.
Colonel Sharp, a $36,000 auction purchase last December — “too much,” said trainer Hugh McMahon at the time — was up to win the Maryland Coalition Stakes at Timonium.
Colonel Sharp, who impressed in his first two races, tries stakes rivals for the first time in the G3 Jersey Shore Saturday.
Yesterday and Today highlights the best of yesterday’s mid-Atlantic racing and looks ahead to today’s action.
