Logical players lived up to expectations as Alwaysinahurry and Fille d’Esprit scored in a pair of Maryland-bred stakes at Laurel Park Saturday.
Fortheluvofbourbon and Fille d’Esprit entered the Maryland Million as arguably the most accomplished horses on the card, and both left with wins.
Fille d’Esprit, a onetime $10,000 claim, figures to go off as one of the shortest-priced horses of Maryland Million Saturday in the Distaff.
Trainer Jerry Robb has a promsing pair of runners headed to big stakes at Charles Town today, with both Alottahope and Fille d’Esprit arriving in form.
Colonial Downs will host a pair of two-year-old stakes for Virginia horses, and Maryland-based trainer John Robb will saddle four, two in each.
Off to the Races returns to the airwaves August 6 with a show featuring trainer John Robb and jockey Victor Carrasco.
Spun Glass and Alottahope, horses that had encountered recent troubled trips, parlayed much better trips to stakes wins Saturday at Laurel Park.
Six fillies are scheduled to run in Wednesday’s Lewes Stakes at Delaware Park and three of them share a bond: all trained by Jerry Robby and homebreds.
Former claimer Fille d’Esprit dazzled, and Ny Traffic wasn’t bad, either, in a pair of MATCH Series stakes Friday at Penn National.
Trainer Claudio Gonzalez won twice Saturday at Laurel Park to secure the track’s winter meet training title with one day left.