Trainer Hamilton Smith will send out two recent maiden winners in a full and contentious Laurel Futurity Saturday afternoon.
Apprentice rider Ashley Castrenze, learning on the job, said her fast start was both blessing and curse, and that her first stakes win Saturday was “a relief.”
Three Laurel Park undercard stakes were won by horses making their first tries in stakes company, one with a rider winning her first-ever stake.
Greatbullsoffire looks for a third straight win Saturday in the Laurel Futurity — but other rivals should factor. Odds and analysis.
More than 200 horses were nominated to six Laurel Park stakes on the track’s opening Saturday, September 10.
Formal Summation and Ruby Notion took Saturday’s Laurel Futurity and Selima, respectively. For both, the wins may be stepping stones to bigger things.
Formal Summation bounced back from a subpar Tyro effort to dominate the Laurel Futurity.
While Mike Trombetta hopes Thunder Pass reprises his last race in Saturday’s Laurel Futurity, Kathleen O’Connell wants anything but for Formal Summation.
Our weekend stakes gallery features Monmouth’s final stake of the season and a half-dozen turf stakes from Laurel Park.
Cyclogenisis proved his impressive maiden score was no fluke when he blitzed the Laurel Futurity field today to win by five.
