This week’s Maryland Racing Today podcast features author/historian Jennifer Kelly, plus our top five 3-year-olds at Laurel and more!
Making just his second career start, Taj Mahal outgamed Let’s Go Lando to win Laurel’s Miracle Wood Stakes as the Russell barn swept two stakes.
Law School and Taj Mahal could be favored in Saturday’s Laurel stakes, but they arrive with very different resumes, plus stakes notes.
The five runners in Saturday’s $100,000 Wide Country Stakes include a pair with prior stakes wins and two others yet to taste defeat. Here’s the field.
Trainer Henry Walters went 21 years between stakes wins. This time, he waited just four weeks, with Barbadian Runner winning the Miracle Wood.
Last month’s Xtra Heat Stakes winner, Onyx Ten, will look for a second straight stakes triumph in Saturday’s Wide Country at Laurel Park.
Miss Harriett, a Narrow Leaf Farm homebred who sprung a 60-1 upset at first asking, won Saturday’s Wide Country Stakes at Laurel Park.
Brief updates on the day’s stakes from Laurel Park…
Luna Belle impressed again in the Wide Country Stakes at Laurel Park, while fellow soph Local Motive recaptured his winning ways in the Miracle Wood.
Saturday’s Miracle Wood and Wide Country Stakes kick off the local routes to the Preakness and Black-Eyed Susan. Our preview in bullet points.