Five-Figure Carryovers in Rainbow 6, Jackpot Super High Five

LAUREL, MD – An open turf allowance sprint and maiden special weight for horses 3 and up, and five-figure carryovers in the 20-cent Rainbow 6 and $1 Jackpot Super High Five highlight Friday’s program as live racing returns to Laurel Park.

Post time for the first of 10 races is 12:25 p.m.

Race 3 is a maiden special weight for fillies and mares ages 3, 4 and 5 scheduled for 5 ½ furlongs on the Fort Marcy turf course. Nineteenamendment, beaten a length when second in a five-furlong maiden claimer May 25 on the turf at historic Pimlico Race Course; Bee Mountain, runner-up in the 5 ½-furlong Jamestown at Colonial Downs last fall in her grass debut; In Her Cups, adding blinkers after running third three times in five prior starts; and Up for It, with two seconds and a third in in three tries for trainer Michael Matz, are among the contenders.

The Rainbow 6 spans races 5-10 and begins with a jackpot carryover of $11,438.28 from the last live program Sunday, when jockey Jaime Rodriguez won four races to take over the lead in Laurel’s summer meet rider standings.

Friday’s Rainbow 6 sequence includes the Race 9 feature, an entry-level allowance for 3-year-olds and pu scheduled for 5 ½ furlongs on the Kelso turf course that attracted a field of 12 including Cryo and Manolito, both entered for main track only.

Chiringo is the 3-1 program favorite in a wide-open event for New York-based trainer George Weaver, who captured the Queen Mary (G2) June 21 at Royal Ascot with 2-year-old filly Crimson Advocate. Facing older horses for the first time, the sophomore Chiringo exits back-to-back 5 ½-furlong turf stakes having run third after being bumped early in the April 16 Palisades at Keeneland and eighth following a slow start in the May 13 William Walker at Churchill Downs.

Rodriguez will be aboard Prince Pere, a restricted allowance winner sprinting five furlongs May 11 at Pimlico for trainer Suzanne Stettinius, who has two wins, one second and one third from just five starters at the summer meet. Tauber, a 7-year-old that fetched $280,000 as a yearling in 2017, has been third or better in 21 of 32 career starts and is reunited with jockey Horacio Karamanos, who rode the gelding to two wins, one second and two thirds last summer, never beaten by more than 1 ¾ lengths.

Should the race move to the main track, The Elkstone Group’s Cryo is favored at 8-5 in his 19th start. The 5-year-old Frosted gelding ran third in a six-furlong allowance June 11 at Laurel, his first race off a $40,000 claim for Maryland’s leading trainer, Brittany Russell.

The Jackpot Super High Five comes in Race 6, a seven-furlong claiming event for maidens age 3, 4 and 5, and starts with a $10,380.34 carryover from Sunday. Mudville Nine cuts back to sprinting on the dirt after a pair of failed attempts going long on the grass against elders for trainer Mike Trombetta. Delegated, by champion Uncle Mo, figures to be competitive on the class drop, while Sweet Syntax and Wingin and Singin are entered to make their career debut.

Stakes action returns to Laurel Park Saturday with the $100,000 Concern for 3-year-olds sprinting seven furlongs on the main track, $100,000 Laurel Dash for 3-year-olds and up and $75,000 Jameela for Maryland-bred/sired fillies and mares 3 and older, both scheduled for six furlongs on the Fort Marcy turf course.