Miss J McKay and So Street cruised to juvenile stakes scores Saturday at Laurel Park and are en route to Maryland Million.
A wide-open field of nine is slated to run in the Light Hearted at Delaware Park Wednesday, the season’s first stake at Delaware Park.
Las Setas has won two straight stakes and is a solid favorite to make it three in Saturday’s Weber City Miss at Laurel Park.
Trainer Jamie Ness, who’s won six overall training titles at Delaware Park and four straight, is looking forward to the 2019 meet.
Midlantic claiming activity remains well ahead of 2018 figures through the first quarter of the year, in our Claimbox report.
Las Setas, upset winner of the Wide Country, will look to stretch her win streak to three in Saturday’s Beyond the Wire at Laurel Park.
Three-year-old Smokin Nitro won for the sixth time in 2018, taking Laurel’s Friday feature, a turf sprint.
Trainer Jamie Ness, who has won every trainer title but one at Delaware Park since 2010, is eager for the 2018 meet to start.
Grade 1 winner Ring Weekend and Grade 3 winner Ghost Hunter are among 14 set to contest the Henry S. Clark Stakes Saturday at Laurel.
In our February Claimbox report: claiming activity is off by 4.5 percent versus 2017, plus trainers have been the busiest?