The just-released list of Triple Crown nominees includes 10 horses bred in the Mid-Atlantic, including three stakes winners and six offspring of regional sires.
Golden Lad, whose first crop are newly minted three-year-olds, is off to a fast start, with stakes winners and sales toppers among his first to hit the track.
Two horses that ran in Saturday’s Maryland Juvenile Futurity – winner Laddie Liam and fourth-place finisher Mine Not Mine – topped the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Mixed Sale.
Hello Beautiful dazzled in winning the Maryland Juvenile Filly Championship at Laurel Park,while Laddie Liam took the boys’ version.
