A contentious group of nine, including shipper Monday Morning Qb, is slated to contest Saturday’s Maryland Juvenile Futurity at Laurel Park.
Monmouth Park will receive $10 million per year for the next five years as part of a racing subsidy, and other news and notes from the region.
Alex Zacney, now 19, was too young to recall much of his father’s near-Triple Crown with Afleet Alex. But he’s hoping 2-year-old Maximus Mischief might provide the family a similar ride.
Navy Commander controlled the pace throughout en route to a front-running score in Monmouth Park’s $100,000 Long Branch Stakes, a Haskell prep.
Midnight Poker, whose four-race, career-opening win streak was snapped last out, will look to start a new one in Saturday’s $75,000 Concern at Laurel Park.
Blinkers-on seems to have done the trick for the much-improved Smooth B, who won the Danzig Stakes impressively Saturday at Penn National
Just a month after a nearly disastrous spill, two-year-old Diamond King got back on track with a win in the Heft Stakes at Laurel Park.
With Parx Racing set to close for two months, its horsemen and horses are scattering, some headed south and others to the farm.
Veteran trainer Butch Reid calls drug issues “the biggest problem racing has to address.” His answer: one central enforcement agency, and no raceday meds.
The busiest claiming week of 2014 led to significant shuffling of the Midlantic Claiming 7, in our Claimbox report.
