The winner of this year’s Grade 1 Preakness will get an automatic berth a month later in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Classic — a first for a Triple Crown race.
Jockey-turned-trainer Elvis Trujillo recorded his first training victory Saturday at Laurel Park when Voodoo Valley (6-1) scored in a claiming race.
The Black-Eyed Susan Stakes, typically the anchor of the Preakness eve card, will instead take place on Preakness day this year.
Arch Cat, a stakes-placed winner of 13 races, scored a 10-1 upset in today’s Laurel Park feature, a $55,000 open allowance for older runners.
Onetime jockey Elvis Trujillo, whose career included 2,100 wins, is back in the entries: now as a trainer, with a runner Friday at Laurel Park.
The Maryland Jockey Club (MJC) will require jockeys who raced at Colonial Downs to quarantine until August 27 before riding at Laurel Park.
Top Line Growth, a stakes winner who’s also graded stakes-placed, will make his first start since September Friday at Laurel Park.
It was by disqualification – but it was still the first stakes win, the first graded stakes win, and a win at Saratoga for Laurel-based trainer Wayne Potts.
In the first juvenile race of 2020 at Laurel Park — finally — Ain’t Da Beer Cold scored a 15-1 upset for trainer Kenny Cox and rider Angel Cruz.
Two Laurel Park-based runners – Hello Beautiful and American Sailor – will hit the road this weekend for out-of-town stakes races.