We caught up with the connections of today’s four Laurel Park stakes. Here’s what they had to say.
In what could have been her last race, Call Another Play bounced back to win the Geisha Stakes and earn some more time on the track.
Laurel Park will host its first four stakes of 2025 Jan. 18, and the track has announced the nominations to all four.
The Jennings Stakes field at Laurel Park came up salty, but the rest were no match for Post Time, who could try the Grade 3 General George next.
Five mulitple stakes winners in the field make Saturday’s renewal of the Jennings for Maryland-breds a tough one, and Post Time is favored.
Well-bet favorites labored home third in a pair of Maryland-bred stakes, while Plot the Dots and Award Wanted were easy winners.
With Laurel Park about to hold its first stakes of the year, no local rider is hotter than Victor Carrasco, who is set to ride two stakes favorites.
In a guest opinion, a former Maryland Racing Commission counsel says that a judge’s recent ruling on the 2020 Geisha Stakes missed the mark.
Artful Splatter was first under the wire in the Geisha S. and remains the winner after the Md. Racing Commission rejected losing trainer John Robb’s appeal.
Jerry Robb, trainer of Geisha Stakes runner-up Anna’s Bandit, has appealed the stewards’ decision not to disqualify winner Artful Splatter for interference.