Nine-Race Card Includes $24,652 Rainbow 6 Jackpot Carryover

BALTIMORE – A trio of $100,000 stakes, two scheduled for its world-class turf course, and a 20-cent Rainbow 6 jackpot carryover of $24,652.18 highlight Saturday’s live nine-race program at Laurel Park.

First race post time is 12:25 p.m.

The Rainbow 6 opens in Race 4 (1:56 p.m.), a starter allowance for 3-year-olds and up which have started for a claiming price of $5,000 or less since last July 15 led by the trio of 8-year-olds His Name Is Sue (17) and He’s Incredible (12) and 7-year-old favorite Wild Behavior (10), who have combined for 39 career wins.

Stakes action begins in Race 5 (2:28 p.m.) with the $100,000 Big Dreyfus for fillies and mares 3 and up going 1 1/8 miles on the Exceller turf course. German-bred Atomic Blonde, twice graded-stakes placed in three U.S. starts, is the 9-5 program favorite to earn her first North American victory against seven rivals including the Graham Motion-trained pair of 2022 Tropical Park Oaks winner Candy Light and 2022 Valley View (G3) winner Sparkle Blue and Laurel turf stakes winners Deciding Vote and Coconut Cake.

Race 7 (3:31 p.m.) is the $100,000 Prince George’s County for 3-year-olds and up, also at 1 1/8 miles on the Exceller. Motion is again well-represented with Royal Patronage, a Group 2 and 3 winner in England in 2021, and Pao Alto, another French-bred that won group stakes in both France and Qatar last winter but has yet to find success in the U.S. Eons, winner of the 2019 Kent (G3), returns to defend his title after being promoted to victory via disqualification last summer.

A half-dozen fillies and mares 3 and up are entered for the $100,000 Caesar’s Wish in Race 8 (4:01 p.m.), a one-turn mile on the main track. Award Wanted, exiting a determined front-running nose triumph in the 1 1/16-mile Obeah May 27 at Delaware Park that won Laurel’s one-mile Geisha Jan. 21 to open her 6-year-old campaign, is narrowly favored over 4-year-old Intrepid Daydream, who has run first or second in five of seven starts. Hybrid Eclipse, third in the Obeah, is 5-for-8 lifetime at Laurel including three stakes wins.

There is also a $1 Jackpot Super High Five carryover of $800.14 in Race 6 (3 p.m.), a 5 ½-furlong claiming event for fillies and mares 3 and up which have never won two races led by twice stakes-placed sophomore Skylar’s Sister and Thunder Boss, a last-out 11-length maiden winner that has been third or better in nine of 14 starts.

Notes: Jockey Jaime Rodriguez tripled Friday with wins on Patty Cakes ($8.20) in Race 4 and You Must Chill ($8.40) in featured Race 8, a one-mile optional claiming allowance for 3-year-olds and up on a firm Bowl Game turf course, for trainer Jamie Ness and Gran Andrews ($7) in Race 9 for Kieron Magee … It was the 11th lifetime win for three-times stakes-placed You Must Chill, who ran in 1:33.85 to beat eight rivals including Grade 2 winner Wow Whata Summer and stakes winners Wicked Prankster and Plot the Dots … Trainer Mike Trombetta also sent out a pair of winners, Maya Prince ($5.80) in Race 2 and Naval Empire ($20.40) in Race 6 … R. Larry Johnson and RDM Racing Stable’s Naval Empire powered down the center of the track to reel in pacesetter Tequilera and sailed away with a 9-1 upset in Race 6, an open allowance for fillies and mares 3 and up. The winning time was 1:40.76 over a firm Exceller turf course … Runnymoore Racing’s Give It a Whirl ($5.40) withstood pace pressure from favored Speedyness and drew off to a convincing victory in Race 7, an optional claiming allowance for 2-year-olds. The homebred son of Hard Spun making his second start covered five furlongs over a fast main track in 58.51 seconds.