Graded stakes winner English Bee has been installed as the morning line favorite for Saturday’s Henry S. Clark Stakes at Laurel Park.
The Grade 1-placed Tango Tango Tango will aim for his first graded victory in Saturday’s Grade 2 Dinner Party Stakes at Pimlico.
Trainer Mike Maker is hoping class relief will give multiple graded winner Field Pass his first win of 2021 in the G3 BWI Turf Cup Saturday at Pimlico.
Chad Brown (of course) will send out the favorite, but trainer Graham Motion will counter with a pair of solid runners in the G2 Dinner Party Stakes.
The powerful barns of Graham Motion and Michael Stidham squared off on Virginia Derby night, winning three each, while firster Four Wheel Drive dazzled.
On Colonial’s big night, English Bee was a narrow winner of the Grade 3 Virginia Derby, while Carnival Colors took the Virginia Oaks.
A field of nine, headed by stakes winner English Bee, one of three trained by Graham Motion, will tackle Saturday’s G3 Virginia Derby.
