Riding after missing two weeks since testing positive for Covid-19, jockey Trevor McCarthy suffered an ankle injury and will be off his weekend mounts.
Grade 3 winners Mischevious Alex and Dean Martini are among 20 nominees to the Federico Tesio Stakes on Labor Day – the last local prep for the Preakness.
Jockey Trevor McCarthy, stricken with Covid-19 during the Colonial Downs meeting, is set to resume riding Thursday at Laurel Park.
Jockey-turned-trainer Elvis Trujillo recorded his first training victory Saturday at Laurel Park when Voodoo Valley (6-1) scored in a claiming race.
Arch Cat, a stakes-placed winner of 13 races, scored a 10-1 upset in today’s Laurel Park feature, a $55,000 open allowance for older runners.
Onetime jockey Elvis Trujillo, whose career included 2,100 wins, is back in the entries: now as a trainer, with a runner Friday at Laurel Park.
The Maryland Jockey Club (MJC) will require jockeys who raced at Colonial Downs to quarantine until August 27 before riding at Laurel Park.
Top Line Growth, a stakes winner who’s also graded stakes-placed, will make his first start since September Friday at Laurel Park.
In the first juvenile race of 2020 at Laurel Park — finally — Ain’t Da Beer Cold scored a 15-1 upset for trainer Kenny Cox and rider Angel Cruz.
Two Laurel Park-based runners – Hello Beautiful and American Sailor – will hit the road this weekend for out-of-town stakes races.