While the Tesio Stakes winner usually competes in the Preakness, this year’s champ Happy Saver skipped it – and instead won the G1 Jockey Club Gold Cup.
The stakes-placed Clear Vision bounced back from a disappointing effort at Pimlico to win Laurel Park’s featured allowance on Sunday.
Trevor McCarthy rode three stakes favorites among the five Virginia-restricted stakes Friday at Laurel Park, and he booted all three home to victory.
Edward P. Evans Stakes winner Largent is 2-5 on the morning line for Friday’s Bert Allen Stakes for Va-breds, which tops the Laurel Park card.
The fall stakes schedule at Laurel Park will feature nearly three dozen races with combined purses of more than $3.2 million, including the Maryland Million.
With the cancellation of the Colonial Downs race meet, five stakes for Virginia-bred or -sired horses will take place Friday at Laurel Park.
Coconut Cake is now three-for-four, and trainer Claudio Gonzalez celebrated the summer meet training title today at Laurel Park.
After going a month between mounts, jockey Katie Davis has returned to action with a flourish, winning with seven of 15 starters this month.
Pending Virginia Racing Commission approval, Maryland’s Laurel Park will play host to five stakes restricted to Virginia-bred or -sired runners.
The Stronach 5 national Pick 5 wager will not be held September 11 because one of the tracks involved, Golden Gate Fields, has canceled its card.