Racing News

Arrow Speed Hits Bullseye in Sunday Feature

04/06/2025

Post Time tunes up with another bullet workout
Jaime Rodriguez rides four winners

LAUREL, MD – Last summer, Arrow Speed was claimed by trainer Jamie Ness out of a runner-up effort in a $25,000 “non-two” event at Delaware Park.

Arrow Speed went on a roll for Ness, winning three of five starts with two second-place finishes before being taken for $30,000 on Dec. 14 by trainer Horacio De Paz and Darryl Abramowitz’s DEA Racing Stable.

Dixie Groove Kicks Late in Saturday Feature

04/05/2025

Two more winners for teenage phenom Hazlewood

LAUREL, MD – Second-generation trainer Jack Abrams is in the midst of a career year.

The son of Ronald Abrams, an active Parx-based trainer with over 350 wins to his credit, Jack Abrams advanced his 2025 record to 10 wins from 26 starters after Dixie Groove rallied from off the pace to take Saturday’s featured eighth race, a first-level allowance for fillies and mares at 1 1/16 miles.

Wild Vine Rallies in Friday Feature

04/04/2025

LAUREL, MD – Jamie Ness and Jaime Rodriguez, Laurel Park’s champion trainer and jockey, respectively, at the recently completed winter meet, wasted little time building on that momentum as they combined for Wild Vine’s upset victory in Friday’s featured fifth race, a high-level conditioned allowance with a $55,000 claiming option.

The National Thoroughbred League Announces 2025 Schedule With Race Weekends in Baltimore, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Nashville

03/31/2025

Each weekend hosted by a celebrity team owner including Lamar Jackson, Julius ‘Dr. J’ Erving & Tanya Tucker
Season opener to kick-off 150th Preakness Week; race purse totals will top $2.5 million

Discreet Ops Wins Sunday Feature at Laurel Park

03/30/2025

Jaime Rodriguez captures Winter Meet riding title
Jamie Ness repeats as Winter Meet training champion

LAUREL, MD – Favored Discreet Ops ($4.20) didn’t disappoint the Laurel Park betting public on Sunday when winning the featured sixth race, a second-level allowance with a $40,000 claiming option for fillies and mares at 5 ½ furlongs.

S S Sinatra Does It His Way in Laurel Feature

03/29/2025

Omaha Omaha breezes for potential Wood Memorial start
Millionaire Post Time back to work

LAUREL, MD – Three weeks ago, trainer Kerry Hohlbein was on the verge of her first career stakes victory.

Her charge, S S Sinatra, battled every step of the way inside favored Speedyness in the $75,000 Not For Love, put that foe away, then was pipped right on the wire by late-closing Circle P.

It was a hard-luck loss for S S Sinatra, arguably the best horse.

High Paf Clears Next Hurdle in Friday Feature

03/28/2025

t’s Hammertime breezes bullet five furlongs

LAUREL, MD – Don’t look now, but the wife-husband, trainer-jockey combination of Brittany Russell and Sheldon Russell sent out another promising runner, this time in Friday’s featured seventh race at Laurel Park, a first-level allowance with a $62,500 claiming option for 3-year-old fillies at six furlongs.

Rominski Wins Sixth Straight Start in Sunday Feature

03/23/2025

Just a Fair Shake overcomes layoff to win first-level allowance

LAUREL, MD – It’s been over a year since Rominski tasted defeat.

In that race, the restricted Not For Love Stakes on March 16, 2024, Rominski ran without Lasix, finished fourth of six, and reportedly bled.

Pay Billy Returns Dividends in Private Terms

03/22/2025

Safe Trust placed first by disqualification in Beyond the Wire

LAUREL, MD – Within 30 minutes at Laurel Park on Saturday, trainer Michael Gorham suffered the agony of defeat and enjoyed the thrill of victory.

Following the Beyond the Wire Stakes, Gorham cradled the trophy in the winner’s circle after Moon Cache finished first by a hard-fought nose. Several moments later, the stewards stripped it away after they judged that Moon Cache interfered with second-place finisher Safe Trust in the shadow of the wire.

Hittheroadjak Comes Back Strong at Laurel Park

03/21/2025

Call Another Play rebounds in filly and mare division

LAUREL, MD – “I needed that one,” said the man in the white cowboy hat after Hittheroadjak bounded clear to win Friday’s co-featured seventh race, a second-level allowance at one mile for 4-year-olds and upward with a claiming option ranging between $40,000 to $32,000.

It had been a lean couple of weeks for the nattily-attired Rudy Sanchez-Salomon after a horse stabled in one of his barns at Laurel Park tested positive for EHV-1.