Racing News

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.
 

Unbridled Juan Gutsy Winner of Laurel Feature Friday

08/03/2018
Girls Love Me Stakes-Bound Following Impressive Friday Win
Four Stakes Worth $300,000 in Purses Highlight Saturday Program
 
LAUREL, MD – Stronach Stable’s multiple graded-stakes placed homebred Unbridled Juan wrested the lead from a stubborn Phlash Phelps in the final sixteenth and withstood a frantic bid from late-running Duff to capture Friday’s featured seventh race at Laurel Park.
 

Multiple Stakes-Placed Forever Liesl Captures Laurel Feature Thursday

08/02/2018
Partisan Divide, Timeless Curls Win Open Maiden Races
Hall of Fame to Welcome Preakness in Friday Ceremony
 
LAUREL, MD – Kallenberg Farms’ Forever Liesl, who placed in a trio of stakes last winter and spring, turned back bids from Follow the Petals to her outside and pacesetter Bluegrass Flag along the rail to edge clear late in Thursday’s featured eighth race at Laurel Park.
 

Delacour, Firestones Aim for Laurel Stakes Sweep Aug. 4

08/01/2018
Special Envoy Goes After Fourth Stakes Win in $75,000 Hansel
Armoire Carries Momentum into $75,000 William M. Backer
Well-Rested Determined Vision Targets $75,000 Meadow Stable
Virginia Fable Looks to Change Plot in $75,000 Camptown
 

G3 De Francis Memorial Dash on Radar for G1 Winner Imperial Hint

07/30/2018
G3 Winner Glorious Empire Possible for Laurel Turf Cup on Sept. 15 Card
Toledo Wins Three Sunday, Live Racing Returns Thursday, Aug. 2
 
LAUREL, MD – Raymond Mamone’s Imperial Hint, who became a Grade 1 winner Saturday in Saratoga, may make his next start in the $250,000 Frank J. De Francis Memorial Dash (G3) Sept. 15 at Laurel Park on his way to the Breeders’ Cup.