The seven-day Timonium race meet at the Maryland State Fair kicks off this weekend with a couple of nice cards highlighted by the Timonium Distaff Stakes.
Music Amore fended off her rivals and drew away late to win Saturday’s Searching Stakes at Laurel Park to give rider Jeiron Barbosa his first stakes win.
Trainer Brittany Russell earned five wins on the last weekend of the Laurel meet to take the title, while bug boy Jeiron Barbosa won the jockey crown.
Jeiron Barbosa, an 18-year-old apprentice jockey from Puerto Rico, made a splash his first day Stateside, winning with his first two Laurel Park mounts.