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.
Didn’t make it out to Pimlico on Preakness day? Our photographers did, and they share the scene with you.
