Exotic West Seeks Graded Success in $150,000 Allaire du Pont (G3)
Among Six Stakes, Four Graded, Worth $1.05 Million in Purses May 20 LAUREL, MD – Well-traveled Exotic West, who has found success going two turns on dirt, will make her graded-stakes debut at historic Pimlico Race Course in Friday’s $150,000 Allaire du Pont Distaff (G3). Exotic West drew the rail in the field of six […]
Pizza Bianca Looks to Return to Winning Ways in $100,000 Hilltop
Evenly-Matched Field of 11 to Contest $100,000 The Very One LAUREL, MD – Bobby Flay’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Filly Turf (G1) winner from last year Pizza Bianca will headline the 50th running of the one-mile $100,000 Hilltop Stakes Friday at historic Pimlico Race Course. The Hilltop, for 3-year-old fillies, and the $100,000 The Very One […]
Wesley Ward Aims for Second Straight Win in Miss Preakness (G3)
Happy Soul Faces Seven Rivals in $150,000 Dash for 3-Year-Old Fillies LAUREL, MD – Trainer Wesley Ward won last year’s Miss Preakness (G3) with a blossoming filly that was light on credentials, Red Ghost. He’s hoping to win the race a second straight year with another – Gayla Rankin’s Happy Soul – that brings a […]
Shake Em Loose Works on Turf Sunday, Will Skip Preakness (G1)
Sophomore Gelding Set to Run in $100,000 James W. Murphy on Grass LAUREL, MD – It’s back to the grass for J R Sanchez Racing Stable’s Shake Em Loose after the claimer-turned-multiple stakes winner on dirt breezed over Laurel Park’s world-class turf course Sunday morning. Working in company with 6-year-old stakes-winning mare Can the Queen, […]
First Captain Seeks Rebound in $300,000 Pimlico Special (G3)
Shares Spotlight with $250,000 Black-Eyed Susan (G2) May 20 Among Six Stakes, Four Graded, Worth $1.05 Million in Purses LAUREL, MD – Grade 3 winner First Captain, exiting the first off-the-board finish of his career, will get an opportunity to rebound as well as give Hall of Fame trainer Shug McGaughey his first victory in […]
Epicenter ‘Pretty Sharp’ for Saturday’s 147th Preakness
Creative Minister, Not Epicenter Sports Winchell Bloodlines ‘Oath’ Owner: ‘We’ll Step Outside the Box within Reason’ LAUREL, MD – Winchell Thoroughbreds’ Epicenter, the Kentucky Derby (G1) runner-up and probable favorite for Saturday’s 147th Preakness (G1) at Pimlico Race Course, had his penultimate training session at Churchill Downs Sunday morning before being vanned to Baltimore Tuesday. […]
Beyond the Wire Earns Special Award of Merit
To Be Recognized During Alibi Breakfast May 19 LAUREL, MD – Beyond the Wire, a Maryland-based Thoroughbred aftercare program that recently celebrated retiring its 500th horse, has been selected to receive the 2022 Special Award of Merit. Guided in its day-to-day operations by program administrator Jessica Hammond, Beyond the Wire will be presented with the […]
Boniface, Miller Jr. Reminisce on Deputed Testamony’s Preakness Victory
Video: Last Maryland-bred and Tesio Victor to Win Middle Jewel of Triple Crown LAUREL, MD – It’s been nearly a half century since the last Maryland-bred horse won the Preakness Stakes (G1). Deputed Testamony, also the last Federico Tesio winner to win the Preakness, was Maryland through and through – Maryland-bred, Maryland-owned, Maryland-trained and Maryland-ridden. […]
