Racing News

Elsa Seeks Stakes Success in $100,000 Selima

09/20/2018
Smith Stablemates Square Off in $100,000 Laurel Futurity
Two of Six Turf Stakes on Saturday’s Fall Festival of Racing Program
 
LAUREL, MD – A dominant winner over the course in her debut two months ago, Godolphin homebred Elsa returns as the horse to beat as she seeks her first career stakes victory in Saturday’s $100,000 Selima at Laurel Park.
 

Smiling Causeway Back with Fillies in Sensible Lady Turf Dash

09/20/2018
Top Two Finishers Renew Rivalry in $100,000 Laurel Dash
Turf Sprints Mark Divisional Finals in Revived MATCH Series 
 
LAUREL, MD – Audley Farm Stable’s multiple stakes winner Smiling Causeway, exiting a rare off-the-board finish in her first try against males, returns to face her own kind where she won for the very first time in Saturday’s $100,000 Sensible Lady Turf Dash Saturday at Laurel Park.
 

Connections Hope to Make Another ‘Impression’ in $150K All Along

09/19/2018
G3 Winners Renown, Scuba Tangle in $100,000 Laurel Turf Cup
Total of Six Grass Stakes on Tap for Saturday’s Fall Festival of Racing
 

Switzerland, Always Sunshine Top Wide Open De Francis Dash

09/19/2018
$250,000 Six-Furlong Sprint One of Seven Stakes Worth $900,000 Sept. 22
 
LAUREL, MD – Switzerland and Always Sunshine, whose lone graded-stakes success each came in the same Maryland race two years apart, and a trio of multiple stakes winners are among nine older sprinters entered in a wide-open edition of the $250,000 Xpressbet Frank J. De Francis Memorial Dash (G3) Saturday at Laurel Park.
 

Change of Equipment Makes the Difference for Papa Zulu Sunday

09/16/2018
Leading Trainer Gonzalez Registers 500th Career Victory
Live Racing Returns with 10-Race Card Friday, Sept. 21
 

Keep Your Distance Goes the Distance in Saturday Feature

09/15/2018
4-Year-Old Filly Earns 10th Career Victory, Sixth with Jockey Vargas
John Jones, Bonus Points, Twocubanbrothersu Tangle in Sunday’s Main Event
 
LAUREL, MD – Off the board following a rough trip in her third career stakes try last time out, Super C Racing Inc.’s Keep Your Distance rebounded with a professional gate-to-wire victory in Saturday’s featured eighth race at Laurel Park.
 

Jockey Katie Davis Ends Layoff with Hard-Fought Victory Friday

09/14/2018
Telling Warrior Gives Ex-Jockey Cortez First Win as Trainer
G3-Placed Congrats Gal Romps by 14 in Return to Allowance Company
 

Sweetontheladies Looks to Make the Grade in De Francis Dash

09/13/2018
Multiple Graded Winner Something Awesome Working Toward Comeback
Live Racing Returns to Laurel with 10-Race Program Friday, Sept. 14
 
LAUREL, MD – Multiple graded-stakes placed Sweetontheladies was already more than an hour into the approximately 1,100-mile van ride from South Florida to Laurel Park earlier this week when trainer Henry Collazo’s phone rang.
 

Maryland Jockey Club Opens Newest OTB at MGM National Harbor

09/12/2018
 OXON HILL, MD – The Maryland Jockey Club unveiled its seventh off-track betting facility with a soft opening Wednesday at the MGM National Harbor, a luxury resort, retail, dining and entertainment venue and casino just minutes from Washington D.C. on the banks of the Potomac River.
 

Weekend Stakes, Including De Francis (G3), Rescheduled

09/10/2018
Virginia-Bred Stakes Rescheduled to Sunday, Sept. 23
 
LAUREL, MD – Due to poor weather conditions forecast this weekend due to Hurricane Florence, the Maryland Jockey Club announced Monday that its Sept 15 stakes program – highlighted by the De Francis Memorial Dash (G3) and three finals of the MATCH Series - has been rescheduled to Saturday, Sept. 22.