Laurel’s Summer of Stakes Boasts 11 Events Worth $1.05M in July
$100,000 Concern, $100,000 Caesar’s Wish Top Saturday Program Jockey Lynch, Trainer Motion Team Up for Pair of Friday Feature Wins BALTIMORE – Starting this weekend, Laurel Park will serve up 11 stakes worth $1.05 million in purses every other Saturday in July along with $500 in gift card giveaways each stakes day. The stakes action […]
Jockey Sheldon Russell Makes Successful Return to Riding Friday
Off 296 Days, Scores in Front-Running Fashion on 2YO Maiden Heldish BALTIMORE – Champion jockey Sheldon Russell, away from the races for 296 days, made a triumphant return to action aboard first-time starter Heldish in the fourth race Friday at Laurel Park. ItsTheJHo’s Heldish, a son of Great Notion bred in Maryland by R. Larry […]
G2 Winner Wholebodemeister Resumes Comeback in Caesar’s Wish
G3-Placed Stablemate Also Entered in Saturday’s One-Mile Stake at Laurel BALTIMORE – Grade 2 winner Wholebodemeister and her Grade 3-placed stablemate Edie Meeny Miny Mo, stakes winner The Grass Is Blue and 6-year-old Bess, a 14-time career winner making her stakes debut, are among a wide-open field of eight entered for Saturday’s $100,000 Caesar’s Wish […]
Stakes Winners Nimitz Class, Old Homestead Top $100,000 Concern
Seven-Furlong 3YO Sprint One of Two Stakes on Saturday, July 2 Program BALTIMORE – Nimitz Class, yet to race outside of his native Pennsylvania, and fellow stakes winner Old Homestead, who suffered his first career loss in his last trip to Maryland, are among five shippers that will line up for the $100,000 Concern Saturday, […]
Jockey Walter Rodriguez Registers First Career Win Sunday
10-Pound Apprentice from El Salvador Scores on Rationalmillennial BALTIMORE – Rationalmillennial, a 3-year-old filly owned and trained by Jose Corrales, came with a steady run through the stretch to catch front-running Stopwatchsonny and surge past to give apprentice jockey Walter Rodriguez his first career victory. A daughter of 2013 Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Orb, Rationalmillennial […]
Undefeated Colt Super Love Ready to Make Stakes Debut
Sophomore Pointed to $75,000 Star de Naskra July 30 at Laurel Breeder-Owner Davison Wins Sunday with Gelding Inside Stunt BALTIMORE – Though it won’t be next weekend, undefeated 3-year-old colt Super Love will take another step in his promising career when he jumps up to face stakes competition in his return to racing. Breeder-owner John […]
Journeyman Sheldon Russell Nearing Return to Racing
Juvenile Colt Tiz No Clown All Business in Maiden Triumph Live Nine-Race Program Starts at 12:40 P.M. Sunday BALTIMORE – Champion Maryland jockey Sheldon Russell is nearing a return to the races more than nine months after being hurt in a pre-race spill at Laurel Park. “He’s doing great,” Russell’s agent Marty Leonard said. “He’s […]
Trainer Sanchez-Salomon Notches Four Wins Friday
Juvenile, Allowance Races Spice Up Saturday Program Saturday Features Rainbow 6, Late Pick 5, Super Hi-5 Carryovers BALTIMORE – Lugamo Racing Stable and J R Sanchez Racing Stable’s Askin for a Baskin swept past dueling pacesetters Imperial King and Jimmy the Kid in deep stretch and edged clear in Race 9 Friday at Laurel Park […]
First Stakes Win Latest Step for Young Trainer Jesse Cruz
Milestone Victory Comes with Why Not Tonight at Laurel Park BALTIMORE – Even as a West Virginia native that has traveled across the country for racing and currently splits his seasons between Florida winters and New Jersey summers, trainer Jesus ‘Jesse’ Cruz couldn’t imagine a more perfect place to win his first stakes race than […]
Unbeaten Super Love, Multiple Stakes Winners Top Concern Nominees
Seven-Furlong Sprint Shares Top Billing with Caesar’s Wish on July 2 Card BALTIMORE – Eight out-of-town stakes winners and improving colt Super Love, who improved his record to 3-0 with a commanding allowance victory June 19, are among 27 3-year-olds nominated to the $100,000 Concern at Laurel Park. The seven-furlong Concern co-headlines a Saturday, July […]