Racing News

Siblings Witty, Mission Man Entered in $75,000 Ben’s Cat

07/11/2024

Bosserati Chasing Second Stakes Win in $75,000 Jameela
Among Three Stakes Worth $250,000 in Purses Sunday at Laurel

LAUREL, MD – Six-time stakes winner, recently Grade 2-placed and defending champion Witty and last out winner Mission Man, stablemates and younger half-brothers to retired multiple Grade 1-winning millionaire mare Caravel, are among an overflow field of 12 entered for Sunday’s $75,000 Ben’s Cat at Laurel Park.

Hardspun Reason Tests Streak in $100,000 Prince George’s County

07/10/2024

G1-Winning Stablemate Highland Chief Among Rivals Sunday at Laurel

LAUREL, MD – Hardspun Reason, bred and co-owned by Sycamore Hall Thoroughbreds and Hillwood Stable, will face seven rivals including Grade 1-winning stablemate Highland Chief in an attempt to stretch his win streak to four races in Sunday’s listed $100,000 Prince George’s County at Laurel Park.

Eubanks Turns Down Offers to Sell Stakes Winner Play Harder

07/07/2024

 

3-Year-Old Maryland-Bred Pointing to $100,000 Concern July 28
Summer Meet Resumes with Nine-Race Program Friday, July 12

LAUREL, MD – Turning down the opportunity to sell 3-year-old Play Harder both privately and through public auction, Rising Sun Racing Stables, Inc.’s Dan Eubanks will continue to campaign his newly turned stakes winner.

G1 Whitney on Radar for Multiple Graded Winner Post Time

07/06/2024

Breezes Saturday for First Time Since Second in G1 Met Mile
Bosserati, The Addison Pour Possible for Laurel’s July 14 Stakes
$100,000 Big Dreyfus, $75,000 Miss Disco Nominations Close Sunday
Jockey Horacio Karamanos Registers Saturday Hat Trick

LAUREL, MD – Hillwood Stable’s multiple graded-stakes winner Post Time, exiting a runner-up finish in the Met Mile (G1) June 8 at Saratoga, may be headed back to upstate New York for another Grade 1 try next month.

Subrogate Pointed to Make Stakes Return in De Francis Dash

07/05/2024

4-Year-Old Arrogate Colt Undefeated in Three Starts This Year
Six-Furlong De Francis Tops Four Stakes Worth $450,000 July 28
Sir London Sets Course Record in Friday Feature Race Victory

LAUREL, MD – Colts Neck Stables’ Subrogate, undefeated in three starts this year, is under consideration for making his return to stakes company in the listed $150,000 Frank J. De Francis Memorial Dash at Laurel Park.

Champion Storm the Court Chasing Elusive Victory Friday at Laurel

07/04/2024

2019 BC Juvenile (G1) Winner Among Favorites in Turf Allowance Feature

LAUREL, MD – If trainer Lacey Gaudet has her way, Storm the Court’s 56-month long odyssey to find the winner’s circle will end with some fireworks to kick off Independence Day weekend Friday at Laurel Park.

Gaudet will saddle David Bernsen, Susanna Wilson and Peter Eurton’s 7-year-old son of Court Vision in co-featured Race 7, a second-level optional claiming allowance for horses 3 and up scheduled for one mile on the Bowl Game turf course.

Graded Winners Abound in Prince George’s County Nominations

07/03/2024

Defending Champ, G2-Placed Witty Tops Nominees to Ben’s Cat
Jameela Nominations Led by Recent G2 Winner Future Is Now
Three Grass Stakes Worth $250,000 in Purses Sunday, July 14

LAUREL, MD – Graded-stakes winners English Bee, Highland Chief, Money Supply, Runaway Storm, Wow Whata Summer and Yes This Time are among 27 nominees to the listed $100,000 Prince George’s County at Laurel Park.

Multiple Stakes Winner Witty Back in Maryland with G2 Placing

06/30/2024

 

5YO Determined Kingdom Continues to Pay Dividends for Connections
Laurel Summer Meet Resumes with Nine-Race Program Friday, July 5

LAUREL, MD – Turf and dirt stakes winner Witty, who opened his 5-year-old season with a victory in the April 20 King T. Leatherbury at Laurel Park, was back in Maryland Sunday having earned his first graded-stakes placing in Saturday’s Highlander (G2) at Woodbine.

Play Harder Promoted Winner of $75,000 Star de Naskra

06/29/2024

Fifth Win in Six Starts for Maryland-Bred in 3-Year-Old Sprint

LAUREL, MD – Pride quickly turned to joy for Dan Eubanks of Rising Sun Racing Stables, Inc. after Play Harder, whose determined rally came up a nose short in his stakes debut, was promoted to victory in Saturday’s $75,000 Star de Naskra at Laurel Park.

Jockey Victor Carrasco Celebrates Birthday in Style

06/28/2024

Eclipse Award Winner Registers Three-Win Day Friday
$75,000 Star de Naskra Tops Nine-Race Saturday Card

LAUREL, MD – Eclipse Award winner Victor Carrasco celebrated his 32nd birthday in style by registering a riding hat trick as the 36-day summer meet resumed Friday at Laurel Park.