After a bout of seconditis in recent stakes, trainer Graham Motion said Dataman saved his weekend with a sharp score in the Bald Eagle Derby at Laurel Park.
Nagirroc and Never Explain set Pimlico course records May 20. Repeat efforts would make them winners in the Secretariat and Arlington Million Saturday.
Trainer Graham Motion will saddle the morning line favorites in Saturday’s Prince George’s County Stakes at Laurel Park versus defending champ Eons.
Sopran Basilea enjoyed a rail-skimming trip to win the Grade 3 Robert Dick Memorial at Delaware Park, giving trainer Graham Motion nine wins in the event.
Trainer Graham Motion has won Delaware Park’s G3 Robert Dick Memorial Stakes eight times, and he has a pair of runner aiming to make it nine Saturday.
With a win in the James Murphy Stakes and other strong performances, trainer Graham Motion earned the top Pimlico weekend trainer bonus.
Three-year-old Nagirroc dominated his competition in the James Murphy Stakes at Pimlico Saturday, setting a track record for one mile on the turf.
Saturday’s Grade 3 Gallorette on the turf at Pimlico has attracted an evenly matched field of turfing fillies and mares.
Graded stakes winner English Bee has been installed as the morning line favorite for Saturday’s Henry S. Clark Stakes at Laurel Park.
True Valour, a multiple graded stakes winner on the turf, has been retired and will stand stud at Maryland’s Northview Stallion Station.