Champion Jockey Wes Hamilton Back Home in Maryland
25YO Won Eclipse Award as Country’s Top Apprentice in 2018 First 2YO Races, Kentucky Derby Party Highlight Closing Weekend BALTIMORE – Six years after gaining national attention as an Eclipse Award-winning apprentice, jockey Weston Hamilton is back in Maryland to begin the latest chapter of his riding career. Hamilton, 25, made his return on the […]
DRF’s Illman to Receive Old Hilltop Award at Pimlico
To Be Recognized at Alibi Breakfast Thursday, May 16 BALTIMORE – Dan Illman, longtime handicapper and writer for the Daily Racing Form (DRF) and executive producer for DRF’s video productions, has been named recipient of the 2024 Old Hilltop Award for covering Thoroughbred racing with excellence and distinction. Illman will be presented with the Old […]
Jockey Jevian Toledo Sidelined with Collarbone Injury
Meet Leading Rider, Apprentice J.G. Torrealba Returns Friday BALTIMORE – Champion jockey Jevian Toledo is expected to be out of action until late June after having minor surgery to repair his collarbone, while spring meet leading rider J.G. Torrealba will return to action Friday, five days after they were involved in a spill at Laurel […]
Muth Favored Over Fierceness and Sierra Leone in Preakness Future Wager
Final Preakness Pool Opens April 26 and Runs to May 4 at 6 P.M. BALTIMORE – Kentucky Derby (G1) favorites Fierceness and Sierra Leone will open as the second and third choices respectively in the Preakness Future Wager when the final pool opens Friday, April 26. Fierceness, who won the Florida Derby (G1) by a […]
Preakness ‘A Consideration’ for Multiple Stakes Winner Copper Tax
3YO Colt Earned Automatic Berth for Victory in April 20 Federico Tesio BALTIMORE – The 149th Preakness Stakes (G1), Middle Jewel of the Triple Crown, will be part of the conversation when the connections of $125,000 Federico Tesio winner Copper Tax discuss future plans for the multiple stakes-winning 3-year-old. Rose Petal Stable’s Copper Tax earned […]
Copper Tax Gets Job Done Again in $125,000 Federico Tesio
Edges Pacesetting Speedyness in Laurel Park’s Preakness (G1) Prep BALTIMORE – It took the length of the stretch, but Rose Petal Stable’s multiple stakes winner Copper Tax came with a steady run down the center of the track to reel in stubborn pacesetter Speedyness and edge clear by three-quarters of a length in Saturday’s $125,000 […]
Call Another Play Makes it Three Straight in $100,000 Weber City Miss
Witty Returns a Winner in Leatherbury Five Towns Rallies for Victory in Dahlia BALTIMORE – R. Larry Johnson’s Maryland homebred Call Another Play continued her forward progression, extended her win streak to three races and earned a shot against graded-stakes competition with a professional 3 ½-length victory in Saturday’s $125,000 Weber City Miss at Laurel […]
Hunter Joe Thrilling Winner of Turf Season Opener Friday
Classic Joke Seeking Return to Form in $125K Federico Tesio BALTIMORE – Lewis Family Racing Stable’s Hunter Joe sat off a fast early pace set by Psychedelic Shack and outkicked a pair of determined foes on his inside to register a thrilling neck victory in the first grass race of the season Friday. Ridden by […]
Speedy Miss Harriett Stretching Out in $100,000 Weber City Miss
‘Win and In’ for 3YO Fillies to 100th Black-Eyed Susan (G2) May 17 BALTIMORE – Miss Harriett, bred and owned by David Baxter’s Narrow Leaf Farms in Dayton, Md., will look to stretch her speed around two turns for the first time as she chases a third career stakes victory in Saturday’s $125,000 Weber City […]
Turf Racing Returns Friday
Paper Mansion Chasing Seventh Straight Win in Friday Feature 5YO Mare Favored in One of Three Grass Races to Open Turf Season BALTIMORE – Jagger Inc. and Longball Stables’ 5-year-old mare Paper Mansion will chase a seventh consecutive victory, eighth on the grass and 12th overall when live racing resumes at Laurel Park Friday marking […]