Racing News

Grooms All Bizness Comeback Winner of Jim McKay Turf Sprint

05/18/2024

Five-Furlong Dash Marked First Race in Nine Months for New Gelding

LAUREL, MD – Colts Neck Stables’ Grooms All Bizness, racing for the first time in nine months and as a gelding, powered through the stretch on the far outside to catch multiple-stakes winner Witty and edge clear by 1 ½ lengths in the $100,000 Jim McKay Turf Sprint Saturday at historic Pimlico Race Course.

Photo Finish Goes to Corporate Power in $100,000 Sir Barton

05/18/2024

Edges Gould’s Gold by Nose in 1 1/16-Mile Stakes for 3-Year-Olds

BALTIMORE – Courtlandt Farm’s Corporate Power, making just his fourth start and first in stakes company, got his nose down on the wire and emerged from a three-way photo finish a thrilling winner of Saturday’s $100,00 Sir Barton sponsored by Brandon and Diannah Perry to benefit the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance at historic Pimlico Race Course.

Fulmineo Becomes Stakes Winner in $100,000 James W. Murphy

05/18/2024

Grade 2-Placed Colt Surges Late in Mile Turf Stakes for 3-Year-Olds

LAUREL, MD – Starlight Racing and Mark Grier’s Fulmineo, racing for the second straight time in his home state, came with a steady run on the outside through the stretch and earned his first career stakes win in Saturday’s $100,000 James W. Murphy at historic Pimlico Race Course.

Super Chow Regains Winning Form in Maryland Sprint (G3)

05/18/2024

Third Graded-Stakes Win in Last Four Starts for 4-Year-Old Colt

LAUREL, MD – Lea Farms’ Super Chow, who had a two-race win streak snapped in his prior start, resumed his winning ways Saturday with a front-running 1 ¾-length score in the $100,000 Maryland Sprint (G3) at historic Pimlico Race Course.

Fluffy Socks Comfortable Winner of $100,000 Gallorette (G3)

05/18/2024

Millionaire Snaps 7-Race Losing Streak, Earns Trip to French G1

LAUREL, MD – Head of Plains Partners’ millionaire mare Fluffy Socks, already a three-time graded-stakes winner, added a fourth in dominant fashion to snap her seven-race losing in Saturday’s $100,000 Gallorette (G3) at historic Pimlico Race Course.

Frost Free Makes the Grade in $200,000 Chick Lang (G3)

05/18/2024

Midwest Shipper Earns First Stakes Victory in Fifth Attempt

LAUREL, MD – Keene Thoroughbreds’ Frost Free, stakes-placed in back-to-back starts, broke running and never looked back to break through with a 1 ½-length victory in Saturday’s $200,000 Chick Lang (G3) at historic Pimlico Race Course.

The 48th running of the six-furlong Chick Lang for 3-year-olds was the second of nine stakes, five graded, worth $3.3 million in purses headlined by the 149th Preakness Stakes (G1), Middle Jewel of the Triple Crown.

Apple Picker Bounces Back in $100,000 Skipat Victory

05/18/2024

4YO Filly Up in Time to Open Preakness Day Stakes Program

LAUREL, MD – Racing over an off track for the first time didn’t faze Michael Dubb’s Grade 3 heroine Apple Picker, who splashed home a 1 ¾-length winner in Saturday’s $100,000 Skipat to kick off the stakes portion of Preakness Day at historic Pimlico Race Course.

Gun Song Fires Big in $300,000 Black-Eyed Susan (G2) Triumph

05/17/2024

Fifth Win in Pimlico’s Premiere 3YO Filly Race for Jockey Velazquez
Milestone 100th Running Capped Stakes-Filled Day on Preakness Eve

LAUREL, MD – Her connections thought enough of Gun Song to make the 3-year-old filly an early nomination to the 2024 Triple Crown. Though those dreams never materialized, the chestnut daughter of newly elected Hall of Famer Gun Runner pulled down a major prize Friday at historic Pimlico Race Course in a milestone edition of the $300,000 George E. Mitchell Black-Eyed Susan (G2).

Historic Black-Eyed Susan Day Sets Handle Record

05/17/2024

LAUREL, MD - The 100th edition of the Black-Eyed Susan (G2) at historic Pimlico Race Course Friday produced a record total handle of $28.4 million.

The Black-Eyed Susan for 3-year-old fillies, one of six stakes worth $1 million in purses on the afternoon, was won by R. Lee Lewis’ Gun Song, trained by Mark Hennig and ridden by Hall of Famer John Velazquez.

Pyrenees Thrilling Winner of $250,000 Pimlico Special (G3)

05/17/2024

Historic 1 3/16-Mile Event Preceded 100th Black-Eyed Susan (G2)
Third Stakes Win of Day for Trainer Cherie DeVaux

LAUREL, MD – Blue Heaven Farm’s Pyrenees, taking a three-race win streak into his stakes debut, made it four in a row by running down favored Kingsbarns in deep stretch and going on for a thrilling three-quarter-length triumph in the historic $250,000 Pimlico Special (G3) Friday at legendary Pimlico Race Course.