Trainer Lacey Gaudet is taking 30 horses to Colonial Downs, which opens this week. But first: a win in Sunday’s Laurel Park co-feature.
Maryland-bred near-millionaire Double Crown has found a soft landing post-racing because, said one of his humans, “a lot of people stepped up.”
The starting gate issues that plagued Pimlico’s opening weekend felt eerily symbolic to some Maryland racing stakeholders.
Trainer Lacey Gaudet, on a torrid 14-for-25 streak, hopes the good run will continue when she sends out two in Saturday’s What a Summer at Laurel Park.
H P Moon, away since a dazzling debut last August, will make his return in Saturday’s Spectacular Bid Stakes at Laurel Park.
Hello Beautiful and Dontletsweetfoolya, two of the top Maryland-based distaff sprinters of recent years, are being sold at Keeneland this week.
Two-time stakes winner Dontletsweetfoolya, away since mid-June, has been working steadily and is nearing a return to action.
The word was out on 2-year-old H P Moon, who went off at 2-5 in his debut and ran like it, winning off by almost 10 lengths at Pimlico.
Sunday’s Shine Again Stakes includes five multiple stakes winner and features the return of 11-time stakes winner Anna’s Bandit.
While Littlestitious gets top billing, locals like Fraudulent Charge and stakes winner Miss Leslie figure to have a say in the Weber City Miss outcome.
