Our weekly Laurel Park Racing Notebook includes horses to watch, headlines from the weekend, and hot jocks and trainers.
A fire Wednesday night in one of the new Laurel Park tent-style barns left the gelding Pappa Portmore dead and trainers and workers shaken up.
Saturday’s Maryland Juvenile Championship (now Futurity) should be a fun race, but it’s unlikely to launch the careers of two Classic winners, like the 1982 edition did.
Three-year-old Shimmering Aspen and returnee Noteworthy Peach will look to regain their winning form in Saturday stakes at Laurel Park.
Talented Limited View, already with three wins on her ledger, will be the one to beat in Saturday’s Maryland Juvenile Filly Championship at Laurel Park.
Clever Mind, who went worst to first to win the Maryland Million Nursery, will aim to double up in Saturday’s Maryland Juvenile Futurity at Laurel Park.
Divining Rod, a Grade 3 winner who was third in the 2015 Preakness, will stand at stud at Country Life Farm for the 2018 season.
Our weekly Laurel Park Racing Notebook includes horses to watch, headlines from the weekend, and hot jocks and trainers.
The Maryland Racing Commission upheld the DQ of a horse with a methocarbamol overage, taking a tack opposite that of a Kentucky court earlier in 2017.
Moon Virginia won today at Laurel Park to give trainer Hamilton Smith his second feature-race victory in as many days and jockey Sheldon Russell his sixth of the weekend.