Racing News

Connections Hope Maryland Champion Crabcakes has Taste for Turf in $75,000 Jameela

08/16/2018
Gaudet Starting Over with John Jones in $75,000 Ben’s Cat 
Four Stakes Worth $300,000 on Maryland Pride Day Aug. 18
 
LAUREL, MD – Already a multiple stakes winner on the dirt, Morgan’s Ford Farm’s Crabcakes will attempt to transfer her form to the grass when she makes her turf debut in the $75,000 Jameela.
 

Laki Awarded Win over Favored Lewisfield in $100,000 Polynesian

08/12/2018
Fourth Leg in Dirt Sprint Division of Revived MATCH Series
 
LAUREL, MD – Hillside Equestrian Meadows’ Laki became a stakes winner for the second time in his career when he was elevated to victory following the disqualification of favored Lewisfield for interference in deep stretch of Sunday’s $100,000 Polynesian Stakes at Laurel Park.
 

Multiple Stakes Winner Always Sunshine Targeting G3 De Francis Dash

08/11/2018
6-Year-Old Sprinter Earned Fourth Career Stakes Win Friday at Saratoga
Glory Stars Upsets Graded-Stakes Placed Zulu in Saturday Feature
Double Carryovers, $100,000 Polynesian Highlight Sunday Card
 

John Jones, Crabcakes, Limited View Top Maryland Pride Day Nominations

08/10/2018
Four Maryland-Bred/Sired Stakes Worth $300,000 in Purses Saturday, Aug. 18
 
LAUREL, MD – Multiple stakes winners John Jones, Crabcakes and Limited View were among 84 nominees to four stakes for Maryland-bred/sired horses worth $300,000 in purses on the Maryland Pride Day program Saturday, Aug. 18 at Laurel Park.
 

G3 Winner Just Howard Earns Hard-Fought Victory in Laurel Return

08/09/2018
Maryland’s 2017 Horse of the Year Captures Thursday Allowance Feature
 
LAUREL, MD – Skeedattle Associates’ Grade 3 winner Just Howard made a triumphant return to Laurel Park’s world-class turf course Thursday, working hard over the soft going to forge a 1 ¼-length triumph in the featured ninth race.
 

Lewisfield Back on Familiar Ground in Polynesian

08/09/2018
Among Five Stakes Winners in Field of Six for Seven-Furlong Sprint
Fourth Leg in Dirt Sprint Division of Revived MATCH Series
 
LAUREL, MD – Exiting the only off-the-board finish of his career in his debut outside the Mid-Atlantic, Linda Zang’s stakes winner Lewisfield finds himself back in familiar territory when he heads a field of six in Sunday’s $100,000 Polynesian Stakes at Laurel Park.
 

MJC Champions Handicapping Tournament Aug. 18 at Laurel

08/08/2018
Berths on Line for NHC, BCBC and BIG ONE Tournaments
Guaranteed Prize Money Paid to Top 10 Finishers
 
LAUREL, MD – Laurel Park will host the second and final session of the 2018 Maryland Jockey Club Champions Handicapping Tournament in the second-floor clubhouse sports bar Saturday, Aug. 18.
 

G3 Winner Just Howard Makes Laurel Return Thursday

08/07/2018
Maryland’s 2017 Horse of the Year Draws Rail in Field of 11
Rainbow 6, Super Hi-5 Carryovers for Return of Live Racing
$75,000 Polynesian Stakes Set for Sunday, Aug. 12
 
LAUREL, MD – Skeedattle Associates’ Grade 3 winner Just Howard, Maryland’s Horse of the Year in 2017, will get a bit of class relief when he makes his return to Laurel Park’s world-class turf course in the ninth of 10 races Thursday.
 

River Deep Returns to Form with Dominant $75,000 Hansel Win

08/04/2018
Homespun Hero Tenacious Winner of $75,000 Meadow Stable
 
LAUREL, MD – Morgans Ford Farm homebred River Deep, unsuccessful in four tries since ending 2017 on a four-race win streak, made an emphatic return to that late-season form with a dominating 7 ¼-length victory in Saturday’s $75,000 Hansel Stakes at Laurel Park.
 

Paulita Captures $75,000 William M. Backer for Late Breeder

08/04/2018
Altamura Goes the Distance in $75,000 Camptown
 
LAUREL, MD – More than two years after his passing, influential advertising executive and successful Thoroughbred owner and breeder William M. Backer was represented in the winner’s circle Saturday by a horse he bred winning her stakes debut in a race named in his honor.