BALTIMORE, 04-13-13---Manito won for the fourth consecutive time with a front-running score in Saturday’s $47,000 allowance feature at Pimlico Race Course.

The 7-year-old gelding accelerated to a 4-1/2 length lead at the top of the stretch and was ridden out by jockey Yomar Ortiz to a half-length victory over Pass You Bye Bye. Owned and trained by King Leatherbury, Manito finished the 5-1/2 furlong test in 1:04.36 and paid $3.60.

BALTIMORE, 04-11-13---Promising apprentice rider Trevor McCarthy will miss 8-10 weeks with a broken left tibia, according to his agent Scott Silver. McCarthy was injured Thursday morning at Laurel Park during training when a horse he was working wheeled and dropped the jockey. The 18-year-old will have surgery Monday, April 15.

“It really wasn’t a bad fall,” Silver said. “It was the way he landed.”

BALTIMORE, 04-07-13---Pimlico Race Course presented the second annual Chasin’ for Children Pony Races between races Sunday afternoon. Forty-eight runners took part in the six races.

Race 1-Holwood Farm Shuffle (Lead Line Trot)
Winner: Buddy
Jockey: August Martin
Trainer: Cindy Faherty

BALTIMORE, 04-06-13--- Make that four years in a row for Ben’s Cat in the $75,000 Mister Diz Stakes. The Jim Stable star from the King Leatherbury barn carried Julian Pimentel to an easy 1-3/4 length victory over the firm turf at Pimlico Race Course.

“Four years in a row, that’s quite rare,” said Leatherbury, who owns, trains and bred Ben’s Cat. “He is amazing.”