Harpers First Ride trounced a stakes quality field in Laurel Park’s Friday feature to run his career record to six wins from 10 starts.
Maryland-bred Lewisfield, a multiple stakes winner, is set to make his first start since December in a Saturday allowance at Laurel Park.
Laurel Park’s Friday featured allowance includes five runners with at least $400,000 in earnings, topped by seven-time stakes winner Alwaysmining.
Jockey Trevor McCarthy, slugging it out with Sheldon Russell for leading rider at Laurel Park, won four races Saturday.
Jockeys will be limited to six overhand strikes of the riding crop in Maryland – and eventually regionally – under new rules that didn’t please everyone.
Multiple stakes winner Cordmaker, who nearly upset last year’s G3 Pimlico Special, has been training well towards his return, trainer Rodney Jenkins said.
Stakes winner Ionic and graded stakes-placed Theodora B. will tangle in the Friday allowance feature at Laurel Park.
The Stronach Group came to the Maryland Racing Commission for an endorsement of Lasix-free baby races. Instead it got a tongue-lashing.
The clubhouse at Pimlico Race Course will reopen for off-track wagering starting Thursday and will be open on a Wednesday through Sunday schedule.
Fresh off a dominant allowance triumph in fast time, three-year-old Hello Beautiful may be headed for graded stakes company, her trainer said.
