Riccio Springs Upset in $75,000 Find for First Stakes Victory
Malibu Beauty Extends Streak to Three in $75,000 All Brandy Rodriguez Wraps Up Second Straight Summer Meet Riding Title BALTIMORE – Sterling Road Stables and LBR Racing Stable’s Riccio, back in stakes company for the first time in 17 months, became a stakes winner for the first time in dominant fashion with a nine-length upset […]
Liz Merryman TOBA Finalist for Second Straight Year
Breeder of Three-Time Dirt and Turf Stakes Winner Witty Ness Nets Friday Hat Trick to Clinch Summer Training Title Twice Stakes-Placed Sheliahs Warcloud Nearing Comeback BALTIMORE – Largely thanks to her 5-year-old Grade 2-placed homebred Witty, a three-time stakes winner at Laurel Park, owner-trainer Elizabeth Merryman is a finalist to win a second straight national […]
Another Stakes Test for Cut From Class in $75,000 All Brandy
irst of Two $75,000 Turf Stakes on Closing Day Program Sunday 10 Races Friday to Launch Final Weekend of Laurel’s Summer Meet BALTIMORE – Cut From Class, stubborn in defeat to near-millionaire and two-time graded winner Sparkle Blue in an unplanned stakes debut last month, faces no such rival when she attempts to restart her […]
Crabs N Beer Chasing Elusive Stakes Win in $75,000 Find
One of Two Turf Stakes on 13-Race Closing Day Program Sunday BALTIMORE – Charles Blanford’s Grade 3-placed Crabs N Beer, beaten two lengths or less in each of his last four stakes attempts and fewer than three lengths on average in seven career tries, continues the quest for his breakthrough win in Sunday’s $75,000 Find […]
Jockey Torrealba Continues Hot Streak with Five-Win Sunday
Return to Dirt Possible for G3-Placed 3YO Filly Discreet Ops BALTIMORE – Jockey J.G. Torrealba continued what has been a torrid August with five winners on Sunday’s eight-race program at Laurel Park. The 22-year-old native of Venezuela moved into second place in the rider standings at Laurel’s 35-day summer meet, which wraps up Aug. 18 […]
Post Time Earning Respect in Older Horse Division
Trainer Brittany Russell: ‘This Horse Shows Up Every Time’ BALTIMORE – Following a second straight Grade 1 placing and closing in on $1 million in lifetime earnings, Hillwood Stable’s Maryland-bred and based multiple graded-stakes winner Post Time has emerged as a major player among older horses. The 4-year-old Frosted colt was beaten a neck for […]
Laurel Cancels Friday Program Due to Tropical Storm
Summer Meet Scheduled to Resume with Nine Races Saturday BALTIMORE – A forecast calling for high winds and heavy rain in the wake of Tropical Storm Debby has led the Maryland Jockey Club to cancel Friday’s nine-race program at Laurel Park. The tropical storm, which first made landfall last week in Florida, has moved up […]
Crabs N Beer Tops 20 Nominations to $75,000 Find Aug. 18
Joins $75,000 All Brandy on Laurel Summer Meet Closing Day BALTIMORE – Grade 3-placed Crabs N Beer, runner-up in last year’s race, and two-time Maryland Million Turf winner Wicked Prankster are among 20 nominees to the $75,000 Find for Maryland-bred/sired horses Sunday, Aug. 18 at Laurel Park. The Find for 3-year-olds and up and $75,000 […]
Malibu Beauty Springs Upset in $100,000 Caesar’s Wish
Give It a Whirl Captures $100,000 Bald Eagle Derby Roanan Goddess Rules in $100,000 Searching BALTIMORE – ZWP Stable, Inc. and Non Stop Stable’s 6-year-old homebred mare Malibu Beauty dueled with favored Saddle Up Jessie through the stretch before edging clear inside the eighth pole and drawing away to a 2 ¾-length victory in Sunday’s […]
Madison Meyers Looking to Transfer July Heat into August
Trainer Has Stakes Winner Desvio in Sunday’s Bald Eagle Derby Post Time Facing Biggest Test Yet in Saturday’s G1 Whitney BALTIMORE – Madison Meyers, for one, was sorry to flip her calendar this week. Racing primarily at Laurel Park, the Middleburg, Va.-based trainer enjoyed one of the best months of her career in July, winning […]