Trainer Jonathan Thomas is scheduled to send out a pair in Saturday’s Selima Stakes at Laurel Park, including morning line favorite Delight.
With Breeders’ Cup upon us, here are the horses bred, based, or racing in the Mid-Atlantic looking to make a mark on Breeders’ Cup Friday.
Fresh off a score in the Selima at Laurel Park, Consumer Spending may next start in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf, trainer Chad Brown said.
Ready to Purrform won the Laurel Futurity and will next start in the Breeders’ Cup, his owner said. He might be joined by Selima winner Consumer Spending.
Laurel Park has five turf stakes on tap this afternoon, including the Laurel Futurity and Selima. Here’s what we’re watching for.
Sharing’s win in the 2019 Selima catapulted her to a Breeders’ Cup win, and now her trainer Graham Motion returns with two for Saturday’s Selima.
Sharing, today named Top Midlantic-bred of 2019, was stamped for success right from the start, as the daughter of two Breeders’ Cup winners.
Sharing – who won Laurel’s Selima Stakes – and Four Wheel Drive, winner of the Rosie’s Stakes at Colonial Downs, turned in banner Breeders’ Cup Friday wins.
Sharing, a Graham Motion-trained juvenile filly impressed in the Selima and may be Breeders’ Cup-bound, and stablemate Irish Mias took the Laurel Futurity.
With a bigger purse and longer distance, Laurel’s Selima Stakes may be poised to become more prominent, and trainer Phil Schoenthal’s one who welcomes it.
