CNL: Trombetta barn seeks second stakes sweep
A week after sweeping two juvenile stakes, trainer Mike Trombetta seeks to repeat with older runners Hollywood Walk and Determined Kingdom.
A week after sweeping two juvenile stakes, trainer Mike Trombetta seeks to repeat with older runners Hollywood Walk and Determined Kingdom.
Just Philtored and Doubting Thomas won a pair of 2yo stakes Saturday at Colonial Downs, and both Mike Trombetta trainees remain undefeated.
Maryland-bred Future Is Now and New Jersey-bred Book’em Danno made Saratoga their home away from home when both won graded stakes July 19.
Shortened up to a sprint distance for the first time in three years, Lifelovenlaughter earned her first stakes win in Laurel Park’s Jameela Saturday.
Colonial Downs will open its stable area for the summer meet June 23, with training to begin June 25, the track announced.
Maryland-bred Future Is Now, who earned her first graded win last year in the Intercontinental, will return to Saratoga Thursday to defend it.
Larry Johnson, who put his stamp on the Thoroughbred industry on racetracks and in boardrooms in Maryland and Virginia, passed away Feb. 4.
Maryland-bred multiple graded stakes winner Post Time heads several horses with connections to Maryland pre-entered in the Breeders’ Cup.
Maryland-bred Future Is Now, a two-time Grade 2 winner, will get a break and is slated to return to race in 2025.
Trainer Mike Trombetta and owner-breeder Larry Johnson teamed up to win two Virginia restricted stakes August 31 at Colonial Downs.