Laurel Park’s City of Laurel and Safely Kept Stakes, for 3-year-olds and 3-year-old fillies, are “Win and In” events for a pair of Santa Anita Grade 1s.
Dropping out of Grade 2 company, Minit to Stardom shot through a hole at the rail and cruised to an easy allowance score Friday at Laurel Park.
Minit to Stardom, a Grade 2 winner on the dirt who also owns a Laurel turf course record, returns to action in a Laurel Park allowance Friday.
Trainer Graham Motion skipped bigger races to run Sharing in the Selima at Laurel, which paid off when she won the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf.
Sharing – who won Laurel’s Selima Stakes – and Four Wheel Drive, winner of the Rosie’s Stakes at Colonial Downs, turned in banner Breeders’ Cup Friday wins.
Arrifana faced her toughest foes and first race around two turns and passed the tests, remaining undefeated with her fourth straight win.
Clubman, the well-beaten favorite in the Maryland Million Classic 12 days ago, bounced back to win a Laurel Park allowance today.
Breeders’ Cup hopeful Miss J McKay breezed a half over the Laurel Park turf Saturday morning with jockey Trevor McCarthy up for trainer Cal Lynch.
Laurel Park has spike its Saturday and Sunday cards because of a water pipe break which forced the track to dig up an area between the two finish lines.
A break in a water line has forced Laurel Park to cancel its Thursday card.