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 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.
Trainer Mike Trombetta, hoping to defend his Colonial Downs training title, will send out six in Virginia restricted stakes Saturday.
Trainer Michael Trombetta will saddle as many as 13 horses this weekend at Pimlico, none in a bigger spot than Call Another Play in the Black-Eyed Susan.
Call Another Play rallied impressively to her third consecutive victory in Saturday’s $125,000 Weber City Miss at Laurel Park, co-feature of five stakes.
Off to the Races returns to the airwaves July 30 with a show featuring trainer Mike Trombetta and jockey Horacio Karamanos.
The next step on the local route to the Preakness is Saturday’s Private Terms Stakes, and it looks to be a wide-open affair.