Prado, Vargas, Lynch: “Warmer in the winner’s circle”
Edgar Prado and other winning jocks today employed a common strategy: stay out of trouble and get back to where it’s warm.
Edgar Prado and other winning jocks today employed a common strategy: stay out of trouble and get back to where it’s warm.
Our weekly Laurel Park Racing Notebook includes horses to watch, headlines from the weekend, and hot jocks and trainers.
A fire Wednesday night in one of the new Laurel Park tent-style barns left the gelding Pappa Portmore dead and trainers and workers shaken up.
Saturday’s Maryland Juvenile Championship (now Futurity) should be a fun race, but it’s unlikely to launch the careers of two Classic winners, like the 1982 edition did.
Three-year-old Shimmering Aspen and returnee Noteworthy Peach will look to regain their winning form in Saturday stakes at Laurel Park.
Talented Limited View, already with three wins on her ledger, will be the one to beat in Saturday’s Maryland Juvenile Filly Championship at Laurel Park.
Clever Mind, who went worst to first to win the Maryland Million Nursery, will aim to double up in Saturday’s Maryland Juvenile Futurity at Laurel Park.
Our weekly Laurel Park Racing Notebook includes horses to watch, headlines from the weekend, and hot jocks and trainers.
Moon Virginia won today at Laurel Park to give trainer Hamilton Smith his second feature-race victory in as many days and jockey Sheldon Russell his sixth of the weekend.
Fanniebellefleming scored 10-1 upset in the Donna Freyer Stakes Saturday at Laurel Park, one of two longshots to win South Carolina residency races.