One of these days two-year-old filly Ultimate Love will face a test where she has to dig deep. It wasn’t in today’s Selima Stakes at Laurel, however.
Ultimate Love, 2-for-2 in her young career, tries stakes company in Saturday’s Selima at Laurel Park, where she’ll find a Graham Motion duo.
Racing returned to Laurel Park Friday for the first time since June, and horsemen were happy to be back in action at their home track.
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.