Among Six Stakes Worth $600,000 in Purses Saturday, Sept. 28
September to Remember Stakes Festival Round 2 Draws 143 Nominations

LAUREL, MD – Grade 3 winners Colonia, Notapradaprice and Pamina, European Group 3 winners Barkaa and Candy Store, and two-time defending Maryland Million Ladies champion My Sistersledge are among 34 horses nominated to the $150,000 All Along Stakes Saturday, Sept. 28 at Laurel Park.

The All Along for fillies and mares 3 and up at 1 1/16 miles over Laurel’s world-class turf course headlines six stakes worth $600,000 in purses for Round 2 of the September to Remember Stakes Festival, which attracted a total of 143 nominations.

Round 1 of the September to Remember Stakes Festival, featuring the $250,000 Xpressbet Frank J. De Francis Memorial Dash (G3) and $200,000 Baltimore-Washington International Turf Cup (G3), offers eight stakes worth $1.3 million in purses Saturday, Sept. 21.

Colonia won the Valley View (G3) and Hatoof Stakes last year for Graham Motion, both at 1 1/16 miles, finishing her sophomore year running fourth in the American Oaks (G1) at Santa Anita in December. She went unraced until Sept. 2, finishing fourth in the PTHA President’s Cup at Parx.

Notapradaprice was beaten a neck in the PTHA President’s Cup by Dynatail, one start after her half-length upset of the Dr. James Penny Memorial (G3) at odds of 25-1 July 2. Pamina won each of her first two starts of 2019, including the Ontario Matron (G3) over Woodbine’s synthetic surface July 13, before finishing fourth as the favorite in the 1 ½-mile Flaming Page Stakes Aug. 18 on the Woodbine turf.

Allen Stable, Inc. and Peter Brant’s Barkaa is winless in her lone two starts this year, making her seasonal debut running seventh in the Gallorette (G3) May 18 at Pimlico Race Course off an eight-month layoff. Third in a 1 1/16-mile optional claiming allowance June 23 on the Belmont Park turf, she won the Prix Vanteaux (G3) at Longchamp last spring.

Candy Store finished third in the PTHA President’s Cup, beaten less than a length, in the 5-year-old mare’s first race in more than nine months. She won one of three starts last year, her first in North America, beating Rymska in a Saratoga allowance, after capturing Italy’s Premio Elena E Sergio Cumani (G3) in the fall of 2017.

John and Cheryl Banner’s homebred My Sistersledge will take a two-race win streak into her next start, most recently taking the 1 1/16-mile All Brandy Stakes Aug. 17 at Laurel. The 5-year-old Etched mare is pointing for a three-peat in the Maryland Million, entering its 34th year Saturday, Oct. 19.

Goodonehoney, winner of the 2018 Weber City Miss Stakes on dirt, and Hallie Belle, who captured the Dahlia Stakes on turf last year, both at Laurel, are also nominated, along with fellow stakes winners Crimson Frost, Dark Artist, Matty’s Magnum and Viva Vegas.

Argentina-bred Care Lady, a two-time Group 1-winning mare in her native country in 2017 but unraced in more than a year since the Dr. James Penny Memorial last fall, and multiple stakes winners O Dionysus and Phat Man top 23 nominees to the $100,000 Japan Turf Cup for 3-year-olds and up going 1 ½ miles on the grass.

Other nominees include 9-year-old English Minister, a winner of four straight including the Find Stakes Aug. 17 at Laurel; stakes winners Highland Sky and Postulation; and Nakamura, a gelded son of Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Animal Kingdom that has won three in a row and was third in last year’s 1 ½-mile Bald Eagle Derby at Laurel.

Juveniles will sprint 5 ½ furlongs on the grass in the $100,000 Howard County and $100,000 Anne Arundel County, the latter for fillies. Prominent in the Howard County are Another Miracle, a winner of two straight capped by the Skidmore Stakes Aug. 19 at Saratoga, and Embolden, winner of the Sept. 7 Jamestown Stakes for Virginia-breds Sept. 7 at Colonial; and Miss J McKay, disqualified from first to third in the Colleen Stakes Aug. 4 at Monmouth Park, in the Anne Arundel County.

Rounding out the stakes action are a pair of seven-furlong sprints for non-winners of a sweepstakes, the $75,000 Shine Again for fillies and mares 3 and up, which attracted 30 nominations, and $75,000 Challedon for 3-year-olds and up.