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The Stronach 5: Four Tracks, 66 Minutes, $100,000 Guaranteed Pool

04/24/2019

Friday’s Stronach 5 Includes Three Turf Races and 2-year-old Maiden Special Weight
Free Past Performances

LAUREL, MD – Friday’s Stronach 5, featuring an industry-low 12-percent takeout and a $100,000 guaranteed pool, will feature three turf races with full fields and a 2-year-old maiden special weight event.

Jockey Jenn Miller Second in Comeback Monday at Laurel

04/22/2019

Apprentice Rider Made First Start Since November 2017   

LAUREL, MD – Apprentice jockey Jenn Miller, riding for the first time since being seriously injured in a spill 17 months earlier, ran second in her comeback race aboard River Card Stable’s Moneymeister in Monday’s opener at Laurel Park.

Kentucky Derby-Bound Win Win Win Leaving Maryland Wednesday

04/22/2019

Record-Setting Stakes Winner Scheduled for Final Work Sunday

LAUREL, MD – Riding the wave of momentum as leading trainer of Laurel Park’s ongoing spring meet, trainer Mike Trombetta will ship record-setting stakes winner Win Win Win to Kentucky on Wednesday to finish preparations for the May 4 Kentucky Derby (G1).

Trombetta’s plans also include giving Win Win Win, ranked 16th with 50 Derby qualifying points, one final work at Churchill Downs over the weekend.

Irish Strait Digs Deep to Capture $100,000 Henry S. Clark

04/20/2019

Secret Message Returns a Winner in $100,000 Dahlia
Dirty Sets Track Record in $100,000 King T. Leatherbury Win
Laki Gets Better of Lewisfield in $100,000 Frank Whiteley Jr.
Ms Locust Point Hangs on for $100,000 Primonetta Triumph

Alwaysmining Leaves No Doubt in Federico Tesio

04/20/2019

Earns Automatic Berth to 144th Preakness Stakes (G1) May 18
Among Seven Stakes Worth $750,000 on Spring Stakes Spectacular Card

LAUREL, MD – Impressive as he had been in putting together a five-race win streak, four of them in stakes, Runnymede Racing’s Alwaysmining took it to another level with an11 ½-length romp in Saturday’s $125,000 Xpressbet Federico Tesio at Laurel Park, punching his ticket to the 144th Preakness Stakes (G1).

Las Setas Punches Ticket for Black-Eyed Susan

04/20/2019

Voss Trainee Captures $125,000 Weber City Miss
 
LAUREL, MD– Robert Manfuso, Wayne Harrison and trainer Katherine Voss’ Las Setas won a free entry into the $300,000 Black Eyed Susan (G2) with her victory in Saturday’s $125,000 Weber City Miss at Laurel Park, but the daughter of Seville had to earn it.
 
The Weber City Miss, an about 1 1/16-mile stakes for 3-year-old fillies, was a ‘Win and In’ event that offered the winner a free-entry into the Blacked-Eyed Susan at Pimlico May 17.

Nineteen Winners Each Earn $9,392 in Stronach 5

04/19/2019

LAUREL, MD – Friday’s Stronach 5 rewarded 19 bettors each with $9,392.10.

The national wager with an industry-low 12-percent takeout kicked off with a $24.60 winner in I love You in Laurel Park’s ninth race. That was followed by a $10.20 winner in Gulfstream Park’s ninth race with Elissas Secret. The fourth leg of the sequence at Golden Gate Fields had a $14 winner in Arch Anthem and Snazzy Dresser ($10.20) took the final leg at Santa Anita Park.

Friday’s Stronach 5 sequence

All-Stakes Rainbow 6, Late Pick 5 Saturday at Laurel Park

04/19/2019

Carryovers of $24,026 in Rainbow 6, $6,959 in Late Pick 5    
$750,000 Spring Stakes Spectacular Card Post Time 1:10 P.M.
Juvenile Colt Rookie Salsa Tastes Victory in Career Debut

LAUREL, MD – Saturday’s Spring Stakes Spectacular program at Laurel Park will feature all-stakes 20-cent Rainbow 6 and 50-cent Late Pick 5 wagers to close an 11-race card that gets under way at 1:10 p.m.

Foreman, Racing Continue to be Perfect MATCH

04/19/2019

Racing Series Founder Looking Forward to 2019 Debut
“We’re doing things in Maryland that you will not see anywhere else in the country”

LAUREL, MD – After considering 2018 a “trial balloon” from several standpoints, founder Alan Foreman is excited to have the Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred Championship Series return for the second year of its revival, ready to really take flight.

Twirling Owen Dazzles in Season’s First Juvenile Race

04/18/2019

Into Bluegrass Solid Winner of Turf Season Opener
Rainbow 6 Carryover Reaches $20,664.48 for Friday

LAUREL, MD – James Miller’s homebred Twirling Owen, displaying the same precocity as her Grade 1-winning sire, broke running and never looked back to capture the first 2-year-old race of the season in style, a 6 ¼-length romp in Thursday’s opener at Laurel Park.