Our weekly Laurel Park Racing Notebook includes GQ’s horses to watch, headlines from the weekend, and hot jocks and trainers.
Whitmore had a five-race win streak snapped last, leaving him right on the brink of $1 million in earnings heading into Saturday’s G3 De Francis Dash.
Special Intention cost $500,000 as a yearling but in his first two starts hadn’t beaten a horse. He found the winning formula today at Laurel Park.
Line of Best Fit needed more ground. It’s the Journey needed less. Today they met in the middle — 7 furlongs — to win stakes at Laurel Park.
The G3 De Francis Dash, to be run September 16, has drawn 24 nominations and tops a card packed with seven stakes.
Two-year-old Limited View — sixth in the G2 Adirondack last out — took a Laurel Park allowance today and is pointed at the Maryland Million October 21.
A horse-by-horse analysis, plus a preview, of Saturday’s Shine Again Stakes at Laurel Park.
Saturday’s Challedon Stakes at Laurel Park will see rapidly improving It’s the Journey seek his first stakes win, plus horse-by-horse analysis
The fall meet at Laurel Park will feature more than $4 million in stakes, including the De Francis Dash, Maryland Million, and more.
A pair of stakes for non-winners of a stake slated for opening weekend at Laurel Park have drawn nearly five dozen nominations.