Racing News

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.
 

Sidelined Journeyman Rider Hamilton to Have Back Surgery Sept. 17

09/09/2018
Two-Time Maryland Meet Champion Out of Action Since June 10
Keefe Pointing to Sept. 22 Stakes for G2 Winner Still Having Fun
Live Racing Returns Friday, Sept. 14 with 10-Race Program
 
LAUREL, MD – Journeyman Steve ‘Cowboy’ Hamilton, a multiple meet champion in Maryland and winner of more than 1,374 career races, is scheduled to have back surgery Sept. 17 in an attempt to continue his riding career.
 

Sheikh of Sheikhs Extends Win Streak to Four Friday at Laurel

09/07/2018
Yowza Yowza Yowza Thrilling Maiden Winner in Fall Meet Opener
Food & Drink Specials, BBQ for 12-Race Program Saturday
 
LAUREL, MD – Team Gaudet’s Sheikh of Sheikhs, a stakes winner at 2 and Grade 3 placed at 3, registered his fourth straight win and third in a row for new connections with a popular 5 ½-length romp Friday, opening day of Laurel Park’s calendar year-ending, 61-day fall meet.
 

X Y Jet, Trio of G1 Winners Among 34 De Francis Nominations

09/07/2018
$250,000 Xpressbet De Francis Memorial Dash (G3) Saturday, Sept. 15
Fall Festival of Racing Program of Seven Stakes Worth $900,000 Draws 245 Noms
 
LAUREL, MD – Rockingham Ranch and Gelfenstein Farm’s multiple graded-stakes winning millionaire X Y Jet, Grade 1 winners Imperial Hint, Whitmore and Ransom the Moon and defending champion Chublicious are among 34 horses nominated to the $250,000 Xpressbet Frank J. De Francis Memorial Dash (G3) Saturday, Sept. 15 at Laurel Park.

Apprentice Jockey Gutierrez Begins New Phase of Career at Laurel

09/06/2018
Schoenthal Hoping to Parlay Timonium Title into Strong Laurel Fall Meet
Multiple Stakes Winner John Jones Makes Return to Dirt Saturday
 
LAUREL, MD – Five-pound apprentice jockey Reylu Gutierrez, a 22-year-old native of Rochester, N.Y., has moved his tack to the Mid-Atlantic and is named to ride Donald Barr-trained Holiday Hopes in Friday’s ninth race at Laurel.