Trainer Mike Trombetta has four runners in Laurel Park stakes this Preakness weekend and calls it a chance to grab “a share of the spotlight.”
A week after sweeping two juvenile stakes, trainer Mike Trombetta seeks to repeat with older runners Hollywood Walk and Determined Kingdom.
Determined Kingdom, now past $700,000 in career earnings, has been named Virginia-bred Horse of the Year after winning two stakes in ’24.
Determined Kingdom is better now at five than ever before, and Sunday’s Van Clief at Colonial Downs could point a new way forward.
On the strength of the biggest-ever win by a Virginia-bred at Colonial Downs, Gigante has been named state-bred Horse of the Year.
Chambeau and Determined Kingdom both won Saturday stakes at Colonial Downs, and for each it was the second stakes win of the 2023 meet.
Determined Kingdom defended his title in the Punch Line Stakes to top a Colonial Downs card with four stakes for Virginia-breds.