The average daily handle at the just-completed Laurel Park summer meet rose by more than 25 percent, the Maryland Jockey Club said.
Mary Eppler trainee Story Spinner had a dextrorphan positive February 10. So why did it take six months for the Maryland Racing Commission to resolve the case?
The connections of Maryland Pride stakes winners Crabcakes and Just Howard were feeling the absence — and presence — of the late breeders of their stars.
“They do all the hard work and we just… look to get around there without getting hurt,” jock Forest Boyce said of trainers after a Maryland Pride day stakes win.
Three-year-old Shimmering Aspen dominated her elders in an easy win in the Twixt Stakes, her second straight stakes score.
Five-year-old Divining Rod made his first start of 2017 in flashy fashion, cruising to a facile score in the Polynesian Stakes at Laurel Park.
Wise Gal, a two-year-old Einstein filly, won at first asking on the Laurel Park turf today.
The talented Shimmering Aspen, a winner in four of six starts, is the morning line favorite for Saturday’s Twixt Stakes at Laurel Park.
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Grade 3 winner Divining Rod, third in the 2015 Preakness, is favored in his first start of ’17 in Saturday’s Polynesian Stakes at Laurel Park.