Racing News

Laurel’s Fall Festival of Racing Handle Up 35 Percent

09/22/2018
De Francis Kicks off Big Month for Maryland Racing
 
LAUREL, MD – Laurel Park’s Fall Festival of Racing, featuring the 27th running of the Xpressbet Frank De Francis Memorial Dash (G3) and six other stakes races, handled $5.073 million Saturday, an increase of 35.5 percent over last year’s program.
 
Total handle in 2017 on the corresponding day was $3.743 million. Handle in 2016 was $4.513 million and in 2015 $3.775 million.
 

Valedictorian Shows Class in $150,000 All Along Victory

09/22/2018
Hello Don Julio Bids Foes Goodbye $100,000 Laurel Turf Cup
Among Six Grass Stakes on Fall Festival of Racing Program
 
LAUREL, MD – Epic Racing’s Valedictorian became a stakes winner for the second time in her career with a front-running 1 ½-length triumph in the $150,000 All Along Stakes, presented by Blackwell Real Estate, Saturday at Laurel Park.
 

Class and Cash on Grass in Laurel Dash

09/22/2018
Fire Key Upsets Sensible Lady
 
LAUREL, MD – Edward Short’s Class and Cash, usually a pacesetter, closed from well back on the Fort Marcy Turf Cup to win the $100,000 Laurel Turf Dash presented by Fidelity First.
 
Trained by Jane Cibelli and ridden Feargal Lynch, Class and Cash got up along the rail inside the final 70 yards to win the six furlong event in 1:14.04. Dubini was second and Fielder checked in third.
 

Order and Law Breaks Maiden in $100,000 Laurel Futurity

09/22/2018
LAUREL, MD – Bran Jam Stable and David Clark’s Order and Law, who made his debut in the Tyro last month, rallied from last on Laurel’s Fort Marcy Turf Course Saturday to break his maiden in the $100,000 Laurel Futurity sponsored by B & B Commercial Interiors.
 
Trained by Louis Linder Jr, and ridden by Feargal Lynch, Order and Law ($21.80) covered a good six furlong course in 1:14.94.
 

Trainer King Leatherbury Gets Win No. 6,500 Saturday at Laurel

09/22/2018
Hall of Fame Horseman Best Known for Mid-Atlantic Legend Ben’s Cat
 
LAUREL, MD – Happy Lantern lit up the toteboard at odds of 16-1 to give Hall of Fame horseman King Leatherbury his 6,500th career victory Saturday to kick off Fall Festival of Racing at Laurel Park.
 

Laurel’s ‘Class on the Grass’ Program Attracts 111 Nominations

09/21/2018
Six Stakes, Four on Turf, Worth $650,000 in Purses Saturday, Sept. 29
Six Graded Winners Among 15 Noms for $200,000 BWI Turf Cup (G3)
Fifteen Nominated to Inaugural $150,000 Bald Eagle Derby for 3-Year-Olds 
 

Altamura Has Sights Set on Stakes Sweep in $75,000 Oakley

09/21/2018
First of Four Turf Stakes on Sunday’s Commonwealth Day Program
 
LAUREL, MD – Susan Moulton’s Altamura, having already captured the first two legs in Laurel Park’s series for Virginia-bred/sired horses, looks to make it a clean sweep while extending her win streak to four in Sunday’s $75,000 Oakley Stakes.
 

Elsa Seeks Stakes Success in $100,000 Selima

09/20/2018
Smith Stablemates Square Off in $100,000 Laurel Futurity
Two of Six Turf Stakes on Saturday’s Fall Festival of Racing Program
 
LAUREL, MD – A dominant winner over the course in her debut two months ago, Godolphin homebred Elsa returns as the horse to beat as she seeks her first career stakes victory in Saturday’s $100,000 Selima at Laurel Park.
 

Smiling Causeway Back with Fillies in Sensible Lady Turf Dash

09/20/2018
Top Two Finishers Renew Rivalry in $100,000 Laurel Dash
Turf Sprints Mark Divisional Finals in Revived MATCH Series 
 
LAUREL, MD – Audley Farm Stable’s multiple stakes winner Smiling Causeway, exiting a rare off-the-board finish in her first try against males, returns to face her own kind where she won for the very first time in Saturday’s $100,000 Sensible Lady Turf Dash Saturday at Laurel Park.
 

Connections Hope to Make Another ‘Impression’ in $150K All Along

09/19/2018
G3 Winners Renown, Scuba Tangle in $100,000 Laurel Turf Cup
Total of Six Grass Stakes on Tap for Saturday’s Fall Festival of Racing