Racing News

Two $100,000 Turf Stakes Headline Laurel Sunday Program

08/12/2023

Irish G3 Winner Speirling Beag Tops Searching for 3YO Fillies
Mendelssohn’s March Takes Class Drop in Bald Eagle Derby
Summer Meet Leader Jaime Rodriguez Rides 3 Winners Saturday

BALTIMORE – The penultimate weekend of Laurel Park’s summer meet will come to a thrilling end with a nine-race program Sunday featuring a pair of $100,000 stakes scheduled for its world-class turf course.

Circling the Drain Chasing Stakes Win in Bald Eagle Derby

08/11/2023

Second of Two $100,000 Turf Stakes for 3YOs Sunday at Laurel
Jockey Russell Registers Friday Hat Trick; Triple Carryovers Saturday

BALTIMORE – Sycamore Hall Thoroughbreds’ Circling the Drain, a homebred gelding that is stakes-placed on both turf and dirt, will face seven rivals seeking a breakthrough stakes victory in the $100,000 Bald Eagle Derby Sunday at Laurel Park.

Trainer Schultz Well Represented in Sunday’s $100,000 Searching

08/10/2023

Laurel Park Summer Meet Resumes with Live Nine-Race Card Friday
Nominations Close Saturday for $75,000 Timonium Distaff Aug. 26

BALTIMORE – When it comes to Sunday’s $100,000 Searching for 3-year-old fillies at Laurel Park, trainer Lindsay Schultz is taking no chances as she seeks the first open stakes victory of her young career.

Ari Gold Chasing Second Stakes Win in Bald Eagle Derby

08/08/2023

1 3/16-Mile Stakes One of Two on Turf for 3-Year-Olds Sunday

BALTIMORE – Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners’ Ari Gold, successful in his only prior stakes start, gets an opportunity to rediscover his winning ways when he returns to face similar company in the $100,000 Bald Eagle Derby Sunday, Aug. 13 at Laurel Park.

G3 Winner Speirling Beag ‘Searching’ for First U.S. Victory

08/08/2023

$100,000 Event First of Two Scheduled Turf Stakes Sunday

BALTIMORE – Walmac Farm, Gainesway Stable and Haras d’Etreham’s Speirling Beag, a Group 3 winner in her native Ireland, will make her second North American start looking for her first victory in Sunday’s $100,000 Searching at Laurel Park.

The 13th running of the 1 1/16-mile Searching for 3-year-old fillies is the first of two stakes scheduled for the grass on a nine-race program followed, by the $100,000 Bald Eagle Derby for 3-year-olds going 1 3/16 miles.

Millionaire Field Pass Tops 24 Nominees to $75,000 Find Aug. 19

08/06/2023

$75,000 All Brandy Draws 26 Including Can the Queen, Coconut Cake
Summer Meet Resumes with Live Nine-Race Card Friday, Aug. 11

BALTIMORE – Three Diamonds Farm’s multiple graded-stakes winning millionaire Field Pass, looking for his first win since last summer, and fellow stakes winners Sky’s Not Falling and Wicked Prankster are among 24 horses nominated for the $75,000 Find to be run Saturday, Aug. 19 at Laurel Park.

MJC Fall Champions Handicapping Tournament Aug. 19

08/02/2023

Prize Money, NHC, BCBC & PWCBC Berths Up for Grabs
Registration Deadlines Aug. 16 by Mail, Aug. 18 in Person/Phone

BALTIMORE – The Maryland Jockey Club will host the fall session of its bi-annual Champions Handicapping Tournament Saturday, Aug. 19 in the second-floor clubhouse sports bar at Laurel Park.

Bald Eagle Derby Attracts 33 Nominations

08/01/2023

G3-Placed Really Good, Battle of Normandy Among Names
28 Nominated to $100,000 Searching for 3-Year-Old Fillies

BALTIMORE – Paradise Farms, David Staudacher and Jason Ash’s Really Good, come-from-behind winner of last month’s Kent, fellow graded-stakes placed Battle of Normandy and stakes winners Ari Gold and Scoobie Quando top 33 horses nominated to the $100,000 Bald Eagle Derby to be run Sunday, Aug. 13 at Laurel Park.

Lightening Larry ‘Doing Fine’ Following De Francis Dash Win

07/30/2023

Marks Third Straight Stakes Victory for G3 Winner, Sixth Overall
Cynergy’s Star Takes Sunday Feature, Live Racing Returns Aug. 3

BALTIMORE – Lea Farms’ Lightening Larry, who ran his stakes win streak to three with a half-length victory over fellow Grade 3 winner Wondrwherecraigis in the $150,000 Frank J. De Francis Memorial Dash Saturday at Laurel Park, returned to Monmouth Park where trainer Jorge Delgado reported Sunday he is ‘doing fine.’

Lightening Larry Strikes in $150,000 Frank J. De Francis Dash

07/29/2023

4YO Colt Registers Third Straight Stakes Victory, 2nd in Maryland
Fellow G3 Winner Wondrwherecraigis Second for 3rd Straight Year

BALTIMORE – Lea Farms’ Lightening Larry stalked Wondrwherecraigis from the gate and came with a steady run through the stretch to reel in his fellow Grade 3 winner inside the sixteenth pole and capture Saturday’s $150,000 Frank J. De Francis Memorial Dash by a half-length at Laurel Park.