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?
In our February Claimbox report: claiming activity is off by 4.5 percent versus 2017, plus trainers have been the busiest?
In our January Claimbox report: claiming activity in the region was off by nearly 10 percent, and three trainers led the rest with seven claims each.
Two months after trainer Jamie Ness returned from a suspension for clenbuterol violations, his barn is growing, and has its first graded stakes win.
Through the first quarter of 2017, Midlantic claiming is up over 25 percent versus last year, according to our Claimbox report.
January claiming activity in the mid-Atlantic was up 40 percent versus the prior year, aided by an additional track being open.