Racing News

Laurel Park Proves Right Place for G3-Placed Juvenile Prove Right

12/15/2022

Combat Queen Goes for Three Straight as Live Racing Returns Friday
Six $100,000 Christmastide Day Stakes Dec. 26 to be Drawn Saturday

LAUREL, MD – Feeling that Prove Right had turned a corner, trainer and co-owner James Chapman brought his promising juvenile to Laurel Park to, well, prove him right. The son of 2018 Triple Crown champion Justify didn’t disappoint.

Stakes Winner Shake Em Loose on Comeback Trail

12/09/2022

Gelded 3YO Ex-Claimer Back on Work Tab at Laurel
Five Stakes Winners to Line Up for Saturday Feature
Trainer Russell, Jockey Cruz Each Win Twice Friday

LAUREL, MD – J R Sanchez Racing Stable’s Shake Em Loose, unraced since mid-May, is back on the work tab as the claimer-turned-multiple stakes winner continues working toward his comeback.

Live Racing Returns Friday with Later Post Time

12/08/2022

Breakfast with Santa Returns to Laurel Park Saturday

LAUREL, MD – Post time moves from 12:05 to 12:25 p.m. for the remainder of the calendar year-ending fall meet when live racing resumes Friday at Laurel Park.

Connections Staying ‘Grounded’ with Undefeated Post Time

12/04/2022

2YO Frosted Colt Rolled to Third Straight Win in Maryland Juvenile
L Street Lady Breaks Maiden Sunday, Live Racing Returns Dec. 9

LAUREL, MD – Impressive as their budding young star was in winning his stakes debut and keeping his race record unblemished in Saturday’s $100,000 Maryland Juvenile at Laurel Park, the connections of Hillwood Stable’s 2-year-old Frosted colt Post Time aren’t allowing themselves to look too far ahead.

Post Time Impresses in $100,000 Maryland Juvenile Victory

12/03/2022

Malibu Moonshine Eclipses Rivals in Maryland Juvenile Fillies
2YO Maiden Sprint Kicks Off Sunday’s Nine-Race Program

LAUREL, MD – Hillwood Stable’s Post Time, in his stakes debut, made a powerful last-to-first move around the far turn and kept his perfect record intact with an eye-catching 3 ¾-length triumph in Saturday’s $100,000 Maryland Juvenile at Laurel Park.

Trainer Smith Seeking Sweep in Maryland Juvenile Stakes

12/02/2022

Cynergy’s Electra Looks to Break Maiden in Maryland Juvenile Fillies
2YO Filly Liquidator Takes Momentum into Saturday’s Stakes Debut
Barbosa Triples Friday; Rainbow 6, Late Pick 5 Carryovers Saturday

LAUREL, MD – With more than 2,100 career wins to his credit, Hamilton Smith has a track record of success in late-season 2-year-old stakes that the 77-year-old trainer hopes to continue Saturday at Laurel Park.

Stakes Winner Breviary Tops Friday Feature at Laurel

12/01/2022

Post Time Moves to 12:05 P.M. for Nine-Race Program
Journeyman Sheldon Russell Named in Friday’s Fifth Race
$100K Maryland Juvenile, Maryland Juvenile Fillies Saturday

LAUREL, MD – Seeking a return to the winner’s circle for the first time since her Timonium Distaff victory in August, Breviary drew the outermost post in a field of six for Friday’s Race 8 feature as live action resumes at Laurel Park.

Malibu Moonshine Makes Return in Maryland Juvenile Fillies

11/30/2022

NY Shipper Faces MM Lassie Winner Chickieness in Saturday Sprint

LAUREL, MD – Happy Face Racing Stable’s Malibu Moonshine, scratched as a top contender from last month’s Maryland Million with a fever, returns to Laurel Park to make her Maryland and stakes debut in Saturday’s $100,000 Maryland Juvenile Fillies.

Johnyz From Albany Chases Third Win in Maryland Juvenile

11/30/2022

$100,000 Sprint Includes Post Time, Undefeated in Two Starts

LAUREL, MD – Charles J. Reed’s homebred Johnyz From Albany, coming off a career-best performance, will face six rivals led by undefeated Post Time as he goes after a second straight stakes victory in Saturday’s $100,000 Maryland Juvenile at Laurel Park.

The 41st running of the Maryland Juvenile co-headlines a nine-race program with the 36th edition of the $100,000 Maryland Juvenile Fillies, both for Maryland-bred/sired horses sprinting seven furlongs.

‘Going to be Sad to See Him Gone:’ Whereshetoldmetogo Retired

11/29/2022

7YO Gelding Won 17 Races, 13 Stakes, Just Shy of $1M in Earnings

LAUREL, MD – Brittany Russell will enter the final month of Laurel Park’s calendar year-ending fall meet leading all trainers in both wins and purses earned, but without one of her barn favorites.

Multiple stakes winner Whereshetoldmetogo, scratched as the program favorite and defending champion in Laurel’s $75,000 Howard and Sondra Bender Memorial Nov. 25, has been retired from racing.