Racing News

Cordmaker Ends Losing Streak in $100,000 Harrison Johnson

03/13/2021

Whereshetoldmetogo Returns a Winner in $75,000 Not For Love
Kiss the Girl Becomes Stakes Winner in $75,000 Conniver

LAUREL, MD – Hillwood Stable’s 6-year-old gelding Cordmaker, a four-time stakes winner without a victory of any kind in more than 17 months, ended his career-long drought with a front-running one-length triumph in Saturday’s $100,000 Harrison E. Johnson Memorial at Laurel Park.

Jockey Alexander Chavez Rides First U.S. Winner Saturday

03/13/2021

Panama Native Scores on Car Lady in First Domestic Mount

LAUREL, MD – Corrales Racing’s Car Lady accelerated through an opening along the rail and sped off with a last-to-first victory in Saturday’s opener at Laurel Park, giving jockey Alexander Chavez his first win in the United States.

Littlestitious Gets Up Late in $100,000 Beyond the Wire

03/13/2021

Favored Street Lute Third in Bid for Sixth Straight Stakes

LAUREL, MD – Joel Politi’s Littlestitious came with a steady run down the center of the stretch to catch Fraudulent Charge inside the sixteenth pole and edge clear to a half-length victory in the $100,000 Beyond the Wire Saturday at Laurel Park.

The 33rd running of the one-mile Beyond the Wire for 3-year-old fillies was the first of five stakes worth $450,000 in purses on a nine-race program, headlined by the $100,000 Private Terms for 3-year-olds.

Stakes-Filled Program for Saturday’s Return of Live Racing

03/12/2021

Private Terms, Beyond the Wire Among Five Stakes Worth $450,000
Video Interviews Brittany Russell, Michael Trombetta
Post Time Moves to 12:40 P.M. Beginning Sunday, March 14

LAUREL, MD – Live racing returns to Laurel Park Saturday with a nine-race program featuring five stakes worth $450,000 in purses led by the $100,000 Private Terms for 3-year-olds and $100,000 Beyond the Wire for 3-year-old fillies.

First race post time is 12:25 p.m.

Cordmaker Seeks to Regain Mojo in $100,000 Harrison Johnson

03/11/2021

Whereshetoldmetogo Makes Season Debut in $75,000 Not For Love
Kiss the Girl Seeks First Stakes Victory in $75,000 Conniver

LAUREL, MD – Hillwood Stable’s Cordmaker, second or third in six of his last seven starts, looks to break through with a return to his multiple stakes-winning form in Saturday’s $100,000 Harrison E. Johnson Memorial at Laurel Park.

Street Lute Looks to Extend Talent, Streak in $100,000 Beyond the Wire

03/11/2021

Sophomore Filly Stretching Out in Search of Seventh Career Stakes Win

LAUREL, MD – After eight sprint races to start her career, seven of them wins, six of them in stakes including five in a row, Lucky 7 Stables’ Street Lute will try something new when she puts her streak on the line in Saturday’s $100,000 Beyond the Wire Saturday at Laurel Park.

Pimlico Race Course to Offer $3.25 Million Spring Stakes Schedule

03/11/2021

146th Preakness (G1) May 15, 97th Black-Eyed Susan (G2) May 14
Total of 16 Stakes, 10 Graded, Including Historic Pimlico Special (G3)

BALTIMORE – Featuring the return of the $1 million Preakness Stakes (G1) to its familiar position as the Middle Jewel of the Triple Crown, the Maryland Jockey Club will offer 16 stakes, 10 graded, worth $3.25 million in purses over Preakness weekend, May 14-15, at Pimlico Race Course.

Maythehorsebwithu Stretching Out in $100,000 Private Terms

03/10/2021
Among Five Stakes Worth $450,000 in Purses Saturday, March 13
 
LAUREL, MD – Michael Dubb and Bethlehem Stables’ Maythehorsebwithu, who became a stakes winner in dominant fashion last month, will stretch out for his longest race to date off his shortest turnaround yet in Saturday’s $100,000 Private Terms at Laurel Park.
 

AN UPDATE FROM 1/ST RACING'S CHIEF VETERINARY OFFICER, DR. DIONNE BENSON, REGARDING EHV1 AT THE MARYLAND JOCKEY CLUB LAUREL PARK

03/10/2021

LAUREL, MD – “As reported, late in the day on March 8, the Maryland Jockey Club was notified that a horse stabled at Laurel Park tested positive for equine herpes virus (EHV1). As per our standard veterinary protocols, the affected horse was immediately removed from the barn and is currently being treated at Marion duPont Scott Equine Medical Center.  

Laurel Cancels Friday Program

03/09/2021

Stronach 5 Canceled

LAUREL, MD – The Maryland Jockey Club has canceled Friday’s nine-race program at Laurel Park due to a number of horses entered now under quarantine after a symptomatic horse at the track tested positive for the equine herpesvirus type 1 (EHV-1).

Friday’s national wager the Stronach 5, which was to feature two races from Laurel and a carryover of $154,931, has been postponed to March 19.