Whereshetoldmetogo Outclasses Foes for 15th Career Victory
11-Time Stakes Winner Cruises by 3 ½ Lengths in Friday Feature Saturday Live Program Opens with First Juvenile Race of Season BALTIMORE – Looking every bit the veteran of 14 prior wins, 11 of them in stakes, Madaket Stables, Ten Strike Racing, Michael Kisber and BTR Racing, Inc.’s Whereshetoldmetogo overpowered six rivals to pick up […]
Undefeated Chez Pierre to Test Graded Waters in Dinner Party (G2)
Juvenile Action Returns to Laurel to Open Saturday’s Nine-Race Program Maryland Million Winner B Determined Successful in Thursday Return BALTIMORE – Lael Stables’ undefeated Chez Pierre, impressive winner of the Henry S. Clark April 23 in his stakes debut, will make the step up to graded company for his next start. Trainer Arnaud Delacour said […]
Preakness (G1) Likely Next Start for Lightly Raced Early Voting
Secret Oath Could Come Back in Preakness After Kentucky Oaks (G1) BALTIMORE — The next start for Klaravich Stables’ Grade 3 winner Early Voting is likely to be the 147th Preakness Stakes May 21 at historic Pimlico Race Course, though trainer Chad Brown is reserving the right to enter the 3-year-old colt Monday in the […]
Preakness (G1), Turf Stakes Among Options for Shake Em Loose
Rare Non-Stakes Start for Veteran Whereshetoldmetogo Friday Maryland Million Winners Part of Next Live Program Thursday BALTIMORE – J R Sanchez Racing Stable’s claimer-turned-multiple stakes winner Shake Em Loose is likely to make his next start on the Preakness Day program May 21 at historic Pimlico Race Course, but owner-trainer Rudy Sanchez-Salomon is still sorting […]
Sunrise at Old Hilltop Tours Return to Pimlico for Preakness Week
Walking Tours Run 6-9 A.M. Tuesday, May 17 through Friday, May 20 BALTIMORE – Sunrise at Old Hilltop, one of the most popular events leading up to the Preakness Stakes (G1), will be making its return to historic Pimlico Race Course this year. The 147th Preakness, Middle Jewel of the Triple Crown, will be contested […]
Popular Multiple Stakes-Winning Sprinter Laki Retired
9-Year-Old Won 11 Races, Six Stakes, Including 2020 De Francis (G3) BALTIMORE – Hillside Equestrian Meadows’ Laki, a winner of six career stakes topped by the 2020 Frank J. De Francis Memorial Dash (G3) who became a fan favorite throughout the Mid-Atlantic over six seasons of racing, has been retired. Bred in Maryland by Tom […]
Chez Pierre Stays Unbeaten in $100,000 Henry S. Clark Win
French-Bred Filly Rolls by 5 ½ Lengths in Turf Stakes Debut BALTIMORE – Looking right at home in his Maryland debut, Lael Stables’ Chez Pierre kept his perfect record intact by turning back multiple graded-stakes winner Field Pass in the stretch and going on to a 5 ½-length victory in Saturday’s $100,000 Henry S. Clark […]
Deciding Vote Opens Season with $100,000 Dahlia Victory
5-Year-Old Mare Edges Favored In a Hurry in Mile Turf Stakes BALTIMORE – William Pape’s homebred Deciding Vote, making her stakes debut, reeled in favored front-runner In a Hurry in mid-stretch and surged past in the final eighth of a mile to capture Saturday’s $100,000 Dahlia at Laurel Park. The 20th running of the one-mile […]
True Valour Makes Triumphant Return in $100,000 King T. Leatherbury
Multiple Graded-Stakes Winner Posts Front-Running Victory in Turf Sprint BALTIMORE – R. Larry Johnson’s multiple graded-stakes winner True Valour, an 8-year-old Irish-bred gelding racing for the first time in 13 months, made a triumphant return to competition with a front-running victory in Saturday’s $100,000 King T. Leatherbury at Laurel Park. The 5 ½-furlong Leatherbury for […]
La Casa d’Oro Right at Home in Friday Maiden Triumph
Maryland-Bred Dialed In Filly Graduates for Trainer Russell Jevian Toledo Doubles to Take Over Spring Meet Riding Lead BALTIMORE – The Elkstone Group’s Maryland homebred La Casa d’Oro, a 3-year-old daughter of Grade 1 winner Dialed In racing for the first time in her home state, put away a stubborn Visby inside the sixteenth pole […]