For the second straight time, High Ridge Road ran down By the Moon late, this time to win the G2 Barbara Fritchie Stakes at Laurel Park.
It was father-son day at Laurel Park, as jockey Kendrick Carmouche and trainer Jose Corrales — and their sons — celebrated stakes wins.
Crabcakes and O Dionysus are favored in a pair of Laurel Park for three-year-olds, with local division leadership among the prizes.
Saturday’s two two-turn stakes for older runners — the Campbell and the Maryland Racing Media — both start from a key question.
Runners trained by Kiaran McLaughlin ran one-two in last year’s Barbara Fritchie, and he returns with another pair for Saturday.
Grade 3 winner Heaven’s Runway will gun for a third straight win against a salty field in Saturday’s G3 General George at Laurel Park.
Trainer Mary Eppler’s Page McKenney won the ’16 General George (at 7 furlongs) and the ’15 Campbell (9f). Saturday he’ll run in one or the other – but which?
Undefeated Crabcakes, pointed to Saturday’s Wide Country at Laurel Park, is putting a spring in the step of her 78-year-old owner, Binnie Houghton.
Johnny Hop, a $350,000 auction purchase, scored narrowly at first asking today at Laurel Park.
Defending G3 General George champ Page McKenney is among 187 nominees to six Laurel Park stakes slated for February 18.