G3 Winner Speirling Beag ‘Searching’ for First U.S. Victory
$100,000 Event First of Two Scheduled Turf Stakes Sunday BALTIMORE – Walmac Farm, Gainesway Stable and Haras d’Etreham’s Speirling Beag, a Group 3 winner in her native Ireland, will make her second North American start looking for her first victory in Sunday’s $100,000 Searching at Laurel Park. The 13th running of the 1 1/16-mile Searching […]
Millionaire Field Pass Tops 24 Nominees to $75,000 Find Aug. 19
$75,000 All Brandy Draws 26 Including Can the Queen, Coconut Cake Summer Meet Resumes with Live Nine-Race Card Friday, Aug. 11 BALTIMORE – Three Diamonds Farm’s multiple graded-stakes winning millionaire Field Pass, looking for his first win since last summer, and fellow stakes winners Sky’s Not Falling and Wicked Prankster are among 24 horses nominated […]
MJC Fall Champions Handicapping Tournament Aug. 19
Prize Money, NHC, BCBC & PWCBC Berths Up for Grabs Registration Deadlines Aug. 16 by Mail, Aug. 18 in Person/Phone BALTIMORE – The Maryland Jockey Club will host the fall session of its bi-annual Champions Handicapping Tournament Saturday, Aug. 19 in the second-floor clubhouse sports bar at Laurel Park. Berths to the NTRA National Horseplayers […]
Bald Eagle Derby Attracts 33 Nominations
G3-Placed Really Good, Battle of Normandy Among Names 28 Nominated to $100,000 Searching for 3-Year-Old Fillies BALTIMORE – Paradise Farms, David Staudacher and Jason Ash’s Really Good, come-from-behind winner of last month’s Kent, fellow graded-stakes placed Battle of Normandy and stakes winners Ari Gold and Scoobie Quando top 33 horses nominated to the $100,000 Bald […]
Lightening Larry ‘Doing Fine’ Following De Francis Dash Win
Marks Third Straight Stakes Victory for G3 Winner, Sixth Overall Cynergy’s Star Takes Sunday Feature, Live Racing Returns Aug. 3 BALTIMORE – Lea Farms’ Lightening Larry, who ran his stakes win streak to three with a half-length victory over fellow Grade 3 winner Wondrwherecraigis in the $150,000 Frank J. De Francis Memorial Dash Saturday at […]
Lightening Larry Strikes in $150,000 Frank J. De Francis Dash
4YO Colt Registers Third Straight Stakes Victory, 2nd in Maryland Fellow G3 Winner Wondrwherecraigis Second for 3rd Straight Year BALTIMORE – Lea Farms’ Lightening Larry stalked Wondrwherecraigis from the gate and came with a steady run through the stretch to reel in his fellow Grade 3 winner inside the sixteenth pole and capture Saturday’s $150,000 […]
Be Better Proves Best in $100,000 Deputed Testamony
Beguine Goes the Distance in Alma North BALTIMORE – Repole Stable’s Be Better, a homebred son of champion Uncle Mo, extended his win streak to three races by passing multiple stakes winners Nimitz Class and Ournationonparade in deep stretch and going on to a 1 ¼-length triumph in Saturday’s $100,000 Deputed Testamony at Laurel Park. […]
Super Accelerate ‘Tough as Nails’ in $75,000 Star de Naskra
Talk to the Judge Rules in $75,000 Miss Disco Victory BALTIMORE – Steven Walfish’s Super Accelerate, stepping up to stakes company for the first time, got a patient trip from jockey Horacio Karamanos and dug in late to fend off a pair of challengers for a popular half-length victory in Saturday’s $75,000 Star de Naskra […]
Bargain Sir Wellington Taking Aim at De Francis Dash
$55K Purchase Chasing Third Career Stakes Win Saturday Among Five Stakes Worth $500,000 in Purses on 10-Race Card BALTIMORE – For Mike and Vicki McGowan of Xtreme Racing Stables, their multiple stakes winner Sir Wellington has been a pleasant surprise. He fetched a mere $55,000 during Fasig-Tipton’s 2020 Midlantic 2-year-olds in training sale at the […]
Nimitz Class Ships to Laurel for $100,000 Deputed Testamony
De Francis Dash Program Features Five Stakes Worth $500,000 BALTIMORE – Thomas Coulter’s multiple stakes winner Nimitz Class, who lost for the first time in six races in his graded debut last month, embarks on starting a new streak when he returns to Maryland for Saturday’s $100,000 Deputed Testamony at Laurel Park. The 27th running […]