Stronach 5 Cancelled for Friday

BALTIMORE – Due to Santa Anita Park cancelling its Friday’s program and moving it to Monday, Friday’s Stronach 5 has been cancelled.  

G3 Winner Wondrwherecraigis Works Saturday at Laurel

5-Year-Old Gelding Awaiting Green Light on Next Start Sunday’s Eight-Race Program Gets Under Way at 12:25 P.M. BALTIMORE – Michael Dubb, The Elkstone Group, Madaket Stables and Bethlehem Stables’ Grade 3 winner Wondrwherecraigis breezed an easy half-mile Saturday at Laurel Park ahead of a still-to-be-determined next start. Wondrwherecraigis went four furlongs in 50 seconds over […]

Stronach 5 Returns $1,756

BALTIMORE – Even with three favorites winning in Friday’s Stronach 5, the popular cross-country wager still returned $1,756.20. There were 56 winning tickets in the Stronach 5 that featured a low 12-percent takeout and races from Laurel Park, Gulfstream Park, Santa Anita Park and Golden Gate Fields. Favored Heliacal ($3.40) kicked off the Stronach 5 […]

Multiple Stakes Winner Whereshetoldmetogo Breezes Thursday

G3-Placed Gelding Continues Preparations for 7-Year-Old Debut Candy Light Graduates Thursday with Popular 4 ½-Length Score BALTIMORE – Madaket Stables, Ten Strike Racing, Michael Kisber and BTR Racing, Inc.’s multiple stakes-winning gelding Whereshetoldmetogo worked Thursday at Laurel Park as he continues to gear up for his 7-year-old debut in the $75,000 Not For Love March […]

Live Racing Returns to Laurel Park Thursday

Fans Can Watch and Wager on Saturday’s Saudi Cup BALTIMORE – A field of six 3-year-old fillies led by 9-5 program favorite Candy Light, beaten a nose in her prior start, will gather in a one-mile maiden special weight as live racing returns to Laurel Park Thursday. The feature is carded second on an eight-race […]

Three on the Turf, Full Fields for Friday’s Stronach 5

Low 12-Percent Takeout BALTIMORE – The Stronach 5 will feature three competitive turf races from Gulfstream Park and Santa Anita Park Friday along with a low 12-percent takeout. The Stronach 5, which also features races from Laurel Park and Golden Gate Fields, had four winning tickets last week with each worth $27,477.70. The Stronach 5 […]

G3 Winner Laki Continuing to Enjoy Winter Vacation

No Timetable for Return of Multiple Stakes Winning 9-Year-Old Coastal Mission Takes Monday’s Presidents Day Holiday Feature Live Action Returns to Laurel with Eight Races Thursday, Feb. 24 BALTIMORE – Hillside Equestrian Meadows’ multiple stakes winner Laki, unraced since finishing sixth last September in defense of his 2020 Frank J. De Francis Memorial Dash (G3) […]

Pimlico Race Course to Offer $3.8 Million Spring Stakes Schedule

147th Preakness (G1) May 21, 98th Black-Eyed Susan (G2) May 20 Total of 16 Stakes, 10 Graded, Including Historic Pimlico Special (G3) BALTIMORE – Highlighted by the 147th running of the Preakness Stakes (G1) for 3-year-olds, Middle Jewel of the Triple Crown, the Maryland Jockey Club will present 16 stakes, 10 graded, worth $3.8 million […]

Cordmaker Gets Elusive Graded Win in General George (G3)

10th Career Stakes Victory for 7-Year-Old Maryland-Bred Gelding BALTIMORE – Now in his sixth season of racing, there is little that Cordmaker hadn’t done. On a chilly Saturday at Laurel Park, the 7-year-old gelding put the exclamation point on what has been a stellar career with a popular three-quarter-length victory in the $250,000 General George […]

Glass Ceiling Makes the Grade in $250,000 Barbara Fritchie (G3)

New York Shipper Edges Jakarta by Half-Length in Sprint Stakes BALTIMORE – Charlton Baker hadn’t been in the Laurel Park winner’s circle in nearly five years. Dylan Davis had never been. Saturday, the New York-based horsemen came together to win the biggest race for females on the winter calendar. Baker and Michael Foster’s Glass Ceiling […]