Grade 2 winner Affirmative Lady will make her first start since last year’s Kentucky Oaks in Sunday’s Caesar’s Wish Stakes at Laurel Park.
Delaware Park concludes three big weekends with a pair of sophomore turf stakes, and Miss Riddler is favored to solve the Christiana stakes for fillies.
Roadster, winner of the 2019 Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby, hasn’t won since and will try to get back on track in Saturday’s Polynesian S. at Laurel Park.
Trainer Mike Maker is hoping class relief will give multiple graded winner Field Pass his first win of 2021 in the G3 BWI Turf Cup Saturday at Pimlico.
Lofty purses and the closure of Churchill Downs’s backside are among the factors leading a number of high-end trainers to Colonial Downs this summer.
Delaware Park kicks off its 84th season of live racing May 26 with a 10-race card featuring three maiden special weight races.
Pixelate, winner of the Grade 2 Del Mar Derby last year, is the morning line favorite in Saturday’s Henry S. Clark Stakes at Pimlico.
Off to the Races Radio returns to the air March 27 with a show featuring trainer Dale Romans and Josh Pons of the Maryland Horse Foundation.
Mike Stidham has been the leading trainer at Colonial Downs since its 2019 rebirth and is planning on being a presence there again in 2021.
Off to the Races Radio returns to the air March 20 with a show featuring trainer Mike Stidham and owner-breeder-stallion owner Grace Merryman.