The expected showdown between Crabcakes and Shimmering Aspen fizzled, while Crabcakes sizzled en route to a decisive score at Laurel Park.
Riders based at Laurel Park swept the day’s seven stakes, a natural result, they said, of the many good riders in the room.
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.