A crowd estimated to be near 400 people attended Friday’s town hall meeting at Laurel Park to discuss the future of Maryland racing.
Saturday’s allowance feature at Laurel Park will be a showdown including two stakes-winning distaffers; plus Laurel Park racing notes.
Laurel Park unveiled a nearly $2 million winter stakes schedule, topped by the Grade 2 Barbara Fritchie and Grade 3 General George in February.
Among the Maryland Racing Commission’s decisions today: approving two stakes as “Win and You’re In” races for the Preakness and Black-Eyed Susan.
The state Racing Commission today approved the Maryland Jockey Club’s request to run 153 days of live racing 2016 — an increase over ’15.
The weekend’s MIdlantic stakes winners, summed up.
Two decades after one young Venezuelan, Ramon Dominguez, burst on the racing scene, another, Keiber Rengifo, hopes he can use hard work to follow that path.
Saturday’s De Francis Dash was decided, after a long wait, by disqualification. That was the right call but scant consolation to DQed rider Joshua Navarro.
A pair of juveniles, Awesome Speed and Lost Raven, scored their first stakes victories today at Laurel Park on the De Francis Dash undercard.
Runner-up Gentlemen’s Bet was placed first via disqualification in today’s $350,000 De Francis Dash at Laurel Park.