Two-year-old Congrats Gal impressed in winning at first asking today at Laurel Park, capping a productive weekend for trainer Cal Lynch and his operation.
Girls Love Me and Our Braintrust – Maryland-breds who won at first asking at Laurel Park – both are slated to run in Friday’s Tremont Stakes at Belmont Park.
Bonus Points was clearly best in last year’s Maryland Million Classic and will take a step towards a defense in a Laurel Park allowance on Saturday.
Three-year-old Still Having Fun will run in Saturday’s G2 Woody Stephens at Belmont, the biggest race of his career, and trainer Tim Keefe says the time is right to take a shot.
The Totally Thoroughbred horse show, originally scheduled for July 7, will now take place at Pimlico October 7, delayed as a result of heavy rains in recent weeks.
The Arnaud Delacour trainee Special Envoy swept three Va-bred route stakes last year and is training towards a try at a repeat in 2018.
Jockey Feargal Lynch took the Pimlico riding title, while Kieron Magee, Mary Eppler, and Jerry Robb tied for top trainer honors.
While a number of trainers are stabled at Pimlico, only Faith Leatherman’s barn is on the front side, by the stakes barn, giving her a front row seat to history each year.
The Laurel Park summer stakes schedule features 13 races worth $1 million combined during the 40-day meeting, which begins June 1.
Jockey Alex Cintron returned to action today at Pimlico, riding races for the first in six months.
