A crowd estimated to be near 400 people attended Friday’s town hall meeting at Laurel Park to discuss the future of Maryland racing.
Saturday’s allowance feature at Laurel Park will be a showdown including two stakes-winning distaffers; plus Laurel Park racing notes.
Laurel Park unveiled a nearly $2 million winter stakes schedule, topped by the Grade 2 Barbara Fritchie and Grade 3 General George in February.
The state Racing Commission today approved the Maryland Jockey Club’s request to run 153 days of live racing 2016 — an increase over ’15.
The weekend’s MIdlantic stakes winners, summed up.
Saturday’s De Francis Dash was decided, after a long wait, by disqualification. That was the right call but scant consolation to DQed rider Joshua Navarro.
A pair of juveniles, Awesome Speed and Lost Raven, scored their first stakes victories today at Laurel Park on the De Francis Dash undercard.
Runner-up Gentlemen’s Bet was placed first via disqualification in today’s $350,000 De Francis Dash at Laurel Park.
Hot City Girl was tons the best in posting a sharp eight-length score in today’s $100,000 Safely Kept Stakes for three-year-old fillies at Laurel Park.
Hard-hitting ex-claimer Page McKenney surged to a dominant score in today’s Richard W. Small Stakes at Laurel Park.