The connections of Maryland Pride stakes winners Crabcakes and Just Howard were feeling the absence — and presence — of the late breeders of their stars.
“They do all the hard work and we just… look to get around there without getting hurt,” jock Forest Boyce said of trainers after a Maryland Pride day stakes win.
Onus set a course record in winning the Lady Baltimore Stakes at Laurel Park, while Renown cruised in the Laurel Turf Cup.
Yesterday and Today highlights the best of yesterday’s mid-Atlantic racing and looks ahead to today’s action.
Laurel Park weekend in pictures, and quotes from the participants.
Bode Miller’s Ravenheart held off Flash McCaul by a head to win today’s $50,000 Maryland Juvenile Futurity.
Six-year-old Jack’s in the Deck lodged his first stakes win since 2011 in upsetting Ben’s Cat in the Maryland Million Sprint.
A Laurel Park track record-holder, Onus blitzed 10 rivals to post a dominant win in today’s Grade 3 Commonwealth Oaks.
Rider Forest Boyce won three to close the Laurel Park summer meet, trainer Kieron Magee won at Saratoga, and other Maryland racing notes.
With Forest Boyce in the irons, Luna Time, trained by Graham Motion, posted a 15-1 upset to win the Grade 3 Obeah at Delaware Park Saturday.