Skeleton Crew, 12, was retired after finishing fifth in a $7500 claimer last Friday — a sad day in some ways but a happy ending for a horse who earned it.
Laurel Park’s Friday card is headlined by a carryover of more than $58,000 in the Rainbow 6 jackpot wager.
The Maryland Racing Commission voted yesterday to uphold a stewards’ decision not to disqualify Maryland Million winner Corvus for an isoxsuprine positive.
A parade of longshots led to another carryover in the Laurel Park rainbow 6 heading into Sunday, and the Pick 5 has a carryover, as well.
Olympic skier Bode Miller was all smiles after his Hold On Momma rolled to a win at first asking at Laurel Park Saturday.
Laurel Park’s jackpot Rainbow 6 will have a carryover of $43,830 into Saturday’s live card.
King Leatherbury announced this week he’d bring 9-year-old Ben’s Cat back for 2016. Though some doubt the wisdom, our correspondent’s not one of them.
Ben’s Cat will skip the year-end Dave’s Friend Stakes, trainer King Leatherbury said today, and look towards a return to racing in the spring of 2016.
Gelo Hall, the legendary Maryland racetracker who attended the Seabiscuit-War Admiral match race and later worked in racing for over 60 years, has died.
King Leatherbury’s popular nine-year-old gelding Ben’s Cat may have one more 2015 start in him — and will return to racing in 2016.
