Racing News

Jockey LaBarre Earns First Pro Win Saturday at Laurel

01/05/2019
Rainbow 6, Super Hi-5 Carryovers for Sunday Program
            
LAUREL, MD – Ejetero LLC’s Empire Panther took the lead at the top of the stretch and held off a late challenge from Ash n’ Em to give jockey Rebecca LaBarre her first professional victory Saturday at Laurel Park.
 

Five Winners Each Receive $29,027 in Friday’s Stronach 5

01/04/2019
LAUREL, MD – Five players from across North America were each rewarded with $29,027.90 for hitting Friday’s Stronach 5, the national Pick 5 with an industry-low 12-percent takeout.
 
Friday’s Stronach 5 started at Laurel with a $12.40 winner in Hail the Queen and ended at Golden Gate Fields with a 6-5 favorite in Shadrack. The highest price in the sequence occurred in the second leg with Park Ridge Benny returning $20.40 at Gulfstream Park.
 

Late Night Pow Pow, Ms Locust Point Top Laurel Stakes Noms

01/04/2019
Graded Winners Among 80 Nominations for Saturday, Jan. 12
Four Stakes Worth $400,000 in Purses Open 2019 Stakes Schedule
 
LAUREL, MD – Late Night Pow Wow, riding a seven-race win streak, and fellow graded-stakes winner Ms Locust Point top 15 horses nominated to the $100,000 What a Summer Stakes Saturday, Jan. 12 at Laurel Park.
 

Friday’s Stronach 5: Four Tracks, $50,000 Guaranteed Pool

01/02/2019

Three Races on theTurf,First Race Post 4:35 ET, 1:35 PT
Races from Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Laurel and Golden Gate

LAUREL, MD – Friday’s Stronach 5 will feature a $50,000 guaranteed pool and will go cross-country with races from Gulfstream Park, Santa Anita Park, Laurel Park and Golden Gate Fields.

Jockey Weston Hamilton Continuing Tradition of Success

12/31/2018
New Journeyman Top Contender for Eclipse as Champion Apprentice
            
LAUREL, MD – There’s a strong tradition, both in his family and on his circuit, which preceded Weston Hamilton when he began riding professionally last December – one the newly minted journeyman is poised to continue.
 

Rainbow 6, Super Hi-5 Carryovers on Nine-Race Program

12/30/2018
Special New Year’s Day Program to Kick Off 2019 Winter Meet 
            
LAUREL, MD – Laurel Park will wrap up its 2018 fall meet with a special nine-race program Monday, Dec. 31 featuring mandatory payouts in the 20-cent Rainbow 6, 50-cent Late Pick 5 and $1 Super Hi-5.
 
First race post time is 12:30 p.m.
 

Late Pick 5 Carryover of $14,562 Sunday at Laurel

12/29/2018
LAUREL, MD – Laurel Park will have a Late Pick 5 carryover of $14,562.96 when racing resumes Sunday with a 12:30 p.m. first race post.
 
Sunday’s program will also have a Super Hi 5 carryover in the first race of $2,477.58 and a Rainbow 6 carryover of $3,383.05.
 

Elevated Vision Springs Emotional $78.40 Upset in $75,000 Politely

12/29/2018
Cordmaker Snaps John Jones’ Win Streak in $75,000 Jennings
 
LAUREL, MD – Making just her fifth career start and first in stakes company, Elevated Vision bolstered her resume and lifted the spirits of her connections with an emotional 38-1 upset in Saturday’s $75,000 Politely at Laurel Park.
 

Colonel Sharp Proves Best in $100,000 Dave’s Friend

12/29/2018
Isotope Rides Rail to Win $100,000 Thirty Eight Go Go
 
LAUREL, MD – Rising Sun Racing Stables’ Colonel Sharp earned a trip back to graded-stakes company by putting away one multiple stakes winner in favored Laki and holding off another in Ohio shipper Altissimo to register a head victory in Saturday’s $100,000 Dave’s Friend at Laurel Park.
 

Alwaysmining Digs Deep to Capture $100,000 Heft

12/29/2018
Please Flatter Me Stays Perfect in $100,000 Gin Talking
 
LAUREL, MD – Runnymede Racing’s Alwaysmining, three weeks removed from his first career stakes win, overcame an inside post and a game favorite to his inside to register a gutsy 1 ½-length victory in Saturday’s $100,000 Heft Stakes.