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Turf Racing Returns Friday At Laurel Park

It’s Hammertime returns a winner
Takethemoneyhoney dominant in second-level allowance

LAUREL, MD – Spring is in the air, the grass is green, and turf racing is back at Laurel Park beginning Friday, April 18.

There are five turf heats on the ten-race program. The first post time is 12:10 pm ET.

Unsurprisingly, the turf races drew big fields.

Forest Boyce Injured

Popular jockey taken to hospital after being unseated in post parade

LAUREL, MD – Jockey Forest Boyce suffered injuries after being unseated by her mount as the horses entered the track for Sunday’s first race at Laurel Park.

First-time starter Z Bogdan reared up, dislodged Boyce, and fell on top of the jockey, who could move her extremities while prone on the track.

Boyce was placed in an ambulance and then helicoptered to the R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland.

Worcester Wins Whiteley

Royal Spa earns first stakes victory
Disco Ebo successfully defends Primonetta title
Cataleya Strike upsets Native Dancer

LAUREL, MD – Worcester rebounded from a runner-up effort in Aqueduct’s Stymie Stakes last month with a rallying 1 ½-length victory over stablemate New King in the Frank Y. Whiteley for 4-year-olds and upward at seven furlongs.

The Frank Y. Whiteley was one of four $100,000 stakes races on Saturday’s program at Laurel Park.

No Cents Cashes In Friday at Laurel Park

Agreed gives sharp debut effort

LAUREL, MD – Brimming with confidence after booting home 19-1 shot I Can Do It earlier in the day, jockey Alexander Crispin took no prisoners aboard pacesetting No Cents in Friday’s featured seventh race at Laurel Park, a $56,000 conditioned allowance at six furlongs.

Four $100,000 Stakes Highlight Saturday Laurel Program

LAUREL, MD – Laurel Park celebrates the second week of the 2025 Spring Meet on Saturday with four $100,000 stakes for 3-year-olds and upward. The first post time for the nine-race program is 12:10 pm ET.

Carded as the fifth race with an approximate post time of 2:02 pm ET, the Native Dancer at 1 1/8 miles features a rematch between Film Star and Speedyness, who finished heads apart in Laurel’s Robert T. Manfuso Stakes on December 21.

Arrow Speed Hits Bullseye in Sunday Feature

Post Time tunes up with another bullet workout
Jaime Rodriguez rides four winners

LAUREL, MD – Last summer, Arrow Speed was claimed by trainer Jamie Ness out of a runner-up effort in a $25,000 “non-two” event at Delaware Park.

Arrow Speed went on a roll for Ness, winning three of five starts with two second-place finishes before being taken for $30,000 on Dec. 14 by trainer Horacio De Paz and Darryl Abramowitz’s DEA Racing Stable.

Dixie Groove Kicks Late in Saturday Feature

Two more winners for teenage phenom Hazlewood

LAUREL, MD – Second-generation trainer Jack Abrams is in the midst of a career year.

The son of Ronald Abrams, an active Parx-based trainer with over 350 wins to his credit, Jack Abrams advanced his 2025 record to 10 wins from 26 starters after Dixie Groove rallied from off the pace to take Saturday’s featured eighth race, a first-level allowance for fillies and mares at 1 1/16 miles.

Wild Vine Rallies in Friday Feature

LAUREL, MD – Jamie Ness and Jaime Rodriguez, Laurel Park’s champion trainer and jockey, respectively, at the recently completed winter meet, wasted little time building on that momentum as they combined for Wild Vine’s upset victory in Friday’s featured fifth race, a high-level conditioned allowance with a $55,000 claiming option.

The National Thoroughbred League Announces 2025 Schedule With Race Weekends in Baltimore, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Nashville

Each weekend hosted by a celebrity team owner including Lamar Jackson, Julius ‘Dr. J’ Erving & Tanya Tucker
Season opener to kick-off 150th Preakness Week; race purse totals will top $2.5 million

Discreet Ops Wins Sunday Feature at Laurel Park

Jaime Rodriguez captures Winter Meet riding title
Jamie Ness repeats as Winter Meet training champion

LAUREL, MD – Favored Discreet Ops ($4.20) didn’t disappoint the Laurel Park betting public on Sunday when winning the featured sixth race, a second-level allowance with a $40,000 claiming option for fillies and mares at 5 ½ furlongs.