Trainer Graham Motion hopes to defend his Pimlico Special title this year with Flying the Flag.
Bridgetown Stakes winner Regally Irish, from the same family as Irish War Cry, could land next in the James Murphy on the Preakness undercard.
The alliance between PETA and The Stronach Group, building for five years, has some in the industry worrying about what happens after Santa Anita.
Three-time stakes winner Alwaysmining will try two turns for the first time in what could be a step towards the three-year-old classics Saturday in the Private Terms Stakes.
Projected, winner of last year’s G3 BWI Turf Cup at Laurel Park, will look to defend that title in Saturday’s renewal of the race.
The multiple graded stakes-winning New Jersey-bred Irish War Cry will enter stud at Maryland’s Northview Stallion Station in 2019.
Trainer Hamilton Smith will send out two recent maiden winners in a full and contentious Laurel Futurity Saturday afternoon.
Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf runner-up Untamed Domain will look for his first win this year in the G3 Kent Saturday at Delaware Park.
Miz Mayhem rides a four-race win streak into Saturday’s $100,000 Stormy Blues Stakes at Laurel Park, where a full field will try to knock her off.
Runners trained by Graham Motion have won eight of the 21 runnings of the Robert G. Dick Memorial, and he has a live contender in Esquisse for Saturday’s renewal of the Delaware Park fixture.