Spikezone, who overcame two knee surgeries to go 11-for-14 as a 5-year-old, has been named the HBPA Claiming Horse of the Year.
Laurel Park will host Thanksgiving day racing with its traditional pie giveaway, and then Friday features two stakes.
Speedyness, winner of Laurel Park’s Miracle Wood Stakes earlier this year, returns from a six-month break Friday at that same track.
Delaware Park’s 2024 meet will reach its conclusion Thursday with a 10-race program as Spikezone tries for his fourth win of the meet.
Timonium’s seven-day stand just started — and now it’s ending. Here’s what we’ll be watching for this final weekend of live racing.
It was a long, twisting road for eight-year-old gelding Wendell Fong, but it’s ending up in the right place: with the retirement he’s earned.
Trainer Jamie Ness, a winner of near 4,300 races and (so far) 11 Delaware Park training titles, will return to that track in a bid for a record-tying 12th.
Jamie Ness finished strong to win the Laurel Park winter meet training title, while Jaime Rodriguez led gate to wire in the jockey race.
Miracle Wood Stakes winner Speedyness and Inveigled headline a wide-open Private Terms Stakes Saturday at Laurel Park with the Beyond the Wire also on tap.
Graded stakes winners Double Crown and Magic Michael headline Saturday’s renewal of the Harrison Johnson Memorial Stakes, which looks to be wide-open.