Racing News

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

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

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

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

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
 

Switzerland, Always Sunshine Top Wide Open De Francis Dash

$250,000 Six-Furlong Sprint One of Seven Stakes Worth $900,000 Sept. 22
 
LAUREL, MD – Switzerland and Always Sunshine, whose lone graded-stakes success each came in the same Maryland race two years apart, and a trio of multiple stakes winners are among nine older sprinters entered in a wide-open edition of the $250,000 Xpressbet Frank J. De Francis Memorial Dash (G3) Saturday at Laurel Park.
 

Change of Equipment Makes the Difference for Papa Zulu Sunday

Leading Trainer Gonzalez Registers 500th Career Victory
Live Racing Returns with 10-Race Card Friday, Sept. 21
 

Keep Your Distance Goes the Distance in Saturday Feature

4-Year-Old Filly Earns 10th Career Victory, Sixth with Jockey Vargas
John Jones, Bonus Points, Twocubanbrothersu Tangle in Sunday’s Main Event
 
LAUREL, MD – Off the board following a rough trip in her third career stakes try last time out, Super C Racing Inc.’s Keep Your Distance rebounded with a professional gate-to-wire victory in Saturday’s featured eighth race at Laurel Park.
 

Jockey Katie Davis Ends Layoff with Hard-Fought Victory Friday

Telling Warrior Gives Ex-Jockey Cortez First Win as Trainer
G3-Placed Congrats Gal Romps by 14 in Return to Allowance Company
 

Sweetontheladies Looks to Make the Grade in De Francis Dash

Multiple Graded Winner Something Awesome Working Toward Comeback
Live Racing Returns to Laurel with 10-Race Program Friday, Sept. 14
 
LAUREL, MD – Multiple graded-stakes placed Sweetontheladies was already more than an hour into the approximately 1,100-mile van ride from South Florida to Laurel Park earlier this week when trainer Henry Collazo’s phone rang.
 

Maryland Jockey Club Opens Newest OTB at MGM National Harbor

 OXON HILL, MD – The Maryland Jockey Club unveiled its seventh off-track betting facility with a soft opening Wednesday at the MGM National Harbor, a luxury resort, retail, dining and entertainment venue and casino just minutes from Washington D.C. on the banks of the Potomac River.