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.
Trainers Steve Asmussen and Graham Motion came to Pimlico this Preakness loaded for bear — and both left with important hardware.
Trainer Graham Motion doesn’t have a Preakness horse this year — but he’ll saddle four favorites, two in stakes, on Black-Eyed Susan day.
World Approval, the Eclipse Champion turf male of 2017, will look to get on track when he tackles the Grade 2 Dixie Stakes Saturday at Pimlico.
Graham Motion trainees Irish Strait and Serjeant At Arms figure to be among the key players in Monmouth Park’s opening day feature, the Cliff Hanger Stakes.
Just Howard, 2017 Maryland-bred Horse of the Year, is being pointed at a return to racing in the G2 Dixie May 19 at Pimlico.