For the second straight day, jockey Steve Hamilton and trainer Horacio DePaz teamed up for a maiden-breaking score, this time with Global Citizen.
Dictate Cool, a Sagamore homebred Curlin filly, won at first asking Saturday at Laurel Park.
Favorite Tale won for the first time since 2015, and Bishop’s Pond continued a late-career surface switch to score in Laurel Park stakes today.
Trainer Claudio Gonzalez and rider Jevian Toledo wrapped up the Laurel Park fall meet titles and were Maryland’s year-round leaders in 2017.
In the face of what it called “extreme cold weather,” Laurel Park has canceled its Sunday, New Year’s Eve card.
After three riders were thrown in the same spot this afternoon, Laurel Park canceled its remaining races after jocks asked the problem be addressed.
John Jones won for the first time in a year, repeating in the Jennings Stakes at Laurel Park, while My Magician rallied to win the Politely.
Just a month after a nearly disastrous spill, two-year-old Diamond King got back on track with a win in the Heft Stakes at Laurel Park.
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