Racing News

Shimmering Aspen, Crabcakes Open Season Thursday at Laurel

07/24/2018
Meeting of Multiple Stakes Winners Highlights Return of Four-Day Week 
Average of 10.44 starters per race Thursday
 
 
LAUREL, MD – The first four-day race week of Laurel Park’s summer meet opens with a bang as multiple stakes-winning fillies Shimmering Aspen and Crabcakes are set to face each other in their seasonal debuts Thursday, July 26.
 

Laurel’s Fall Stakes Schedule Offers $3.425 Million in Purses

07/23/2018
Super September: 18 Stakes, $1.9 Million in Purses
$250,000 De Francis Memorial (G3) Sept. 15
$200,000 Baltimore/Washington International (G3) Sept. 29
Inaugural $150,000 Bald Eagle Derby at 1 ½ Mile Turf Sept. 29
Three MATCH Finals Sept. 15
$100,000 Safely Kept One of Five $100,000 Stakes Nov. 10
Six Stakes Worth $550,000 Dec. 29
 

Hamilton Smith Saddles Four Winners at Laurel

07/22/2018
LAUREL, MD – Trainer Hamilton Smith, a perennial leading trainer in Maryland, saddled four winners on Sunday’s 10-race program at Laurel Park.
 
Smith, who began his training career in 1976 and has won more than 1,900 races, started the day saddling the winner of the early double, True Cat ($4.40) and Queen of Schmooze ($4.20). He then saddled the winner of the fourth in Scrap Copper ($9), a game 2-year-old son of Great Notion making his debut, and the fifth in Stillsexyatsixty ($4). 
 

Surface Switch No Problem for Keep Your Distance in Laurel Feature

07/21/2018
Quartet of Sprint Stakes Highlights Closing Weekend of Summer Meet
Summer Meet-Ending Four-Day Race Week Starts Thursday, July 26
Rainbow 6 Carryover of $11,332 for Sunday’s 10-Race Program
 
LAUREL, MD – Super C Racing Inc.’s Keep Your Distance, racing first time off the claim for trainer Kieron Magee, led from gate to wire for an easy four-length victory in Saturday’s featured third race at Laurel Park.
 

Elsa Dominant Winner for Godolphin in Career Debut Friday

07/20/2018
Animal Kingdom Filly Captures Maiden Event by 3 ¾ Lengths
Rainbow 6, Late Pick 5, Super Hi-5 Carryovers for Saturday
 
LAUREL, MD – Godolphin homebred Elsa, a juvenile daughter of 2011 Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Animal Kingdom, made her much-anticipated race debut an impressive one with a 3 ¾-length victory in Friday’s featured third race at Laurel Park.
 

Hall of Famer Leatherbury Closing in on 6,500th Career Victory

07/19/2018
G2 Winner Still Having Fun Pointing to G1 Allen Jerkens at Saratoga
Rocky Policy Seeks First ‘Home’ Turf Win in Saturday Allowance
Full Fields, Rainbow 6 Carryover for Return of Live Racing Friday
Prominent Sires Represented in Friday Maiden Special Weight
 

Laurel Park Hosting Annual Crab Feast Saturday, July 28

07/18/2018
$75,000 Twixt Stakes Highlights Live Racing Program
 
LAUREL, MD – In addition to a program of live racing featuring the 36th running of the $75,000 Twixt Stakes for fillies and mares 3 and up, Laurel Park will host its annual Crab Feast on Saturday, July 28.
 
Sponsored by Jailbreak Brewing Company, the event runs from 1 to 5 p.m. on the grandstand apron and offers various food and drink options as well as a DJ. 
 

Graded Winners Tequilita, Nootka Sound Top $75,000 Twixt Nominations

07/16/2018
Defending Champ Shimmering Aspen Also Among 42 Noms for July 28 Stakes
 
LAUREL, MD – Graded-stakes winners Tequilita and Nootka Sound and defending champion Shimmering Aspen are among 42 fillies and mares nominated to the $75,000 Twixt Stakes Saturday, July 28 at Laurel Park.
 
The seven-furlong Twixt for females 3 and older on the main track is the eighth stakes of Laurel’s ongoing 40-day summer meet, which runs through Sunday, Aug. 19.
 

Wasabi Ventures Stables Enjoying Recent Hot Streak

07/13/2018
Maryland Native Heads Successful Fledgling Ownership Syndicate 
            
LAUREL, MD – As founder and managing partner of Wasabi Ventures Stables, Tom Kuegler’s focus is on eliminating risk and increasing excitement for members of what the fledgling syndicate calls its ‘Co-Owners Club.’
 

Tullock Enjoying Latest Role as Laurel Park Racing Analyst

07/12/2018
Former Graded Stakes-Winning Trainer Working Summer Meet
 
LAUREL, MD – Not since his days training such outstanding stakes winners as Buster’s Daydream, Sensibly Chic and Abbondanza has Tim Tullock spent as much time talking horses as he does in his current gig.