Angel Cruz Nearing Milestone as Laurel Park Opens Fall Meet
Journeyman Has Eight Mounts on Saturday’s Opening Day Program BALTIMORE – Laurel Park will launch its calendar year-ending fall meet Saturday with a 10-race program and multiple graded-stakes winning journeyman Angel Cruz on the verge of reaching a career milestone. Cruz, 29, is named in eight races as he closes in on the 1,000-win mark. […]
39th Jim McKay Maryland Million Tops 36 Stakes Worth $3.53 Million
Meet Opens Saturday, Stakes Schedule Begins Saturday, Sept. 14 BALTIMORE – Laurel Park’s fall meet, which begins Saturday, will be highlighted by the 39th running of the Jim McKay Maryland Million Oct 12 along with 36 stakes worth $3.53 million. The fall stakes scheduled begins Saturday, Sept. 14 with the $100,000 Polynesian for 3-year-olds and […]
Twice G1-Placed Post Time Tops Nominees to $100,000 Polynesian
Among Three Stakes, Two on Turf, Worth $300,000 Saturday, Sept. 14 BALTIMORE – Hillwood Stable’s Maryland-bred and based multiple graded-stakes winner Post Time, exiting back-to-back Grade 1 placings at Saratoga, tops 27 horses nominated to the $100,000 Polynesian Saturday, Sept. 14 at Laurel Park. The one-mile Polynesian for 3-year-olds and up is joined by a […]
Riccio Springs Upset in $75,000 Find for First Stakes Victory
Malibu Beauty Extends Streak to Three in $75,000 All Brandy Rodriguez Wraps Up Second Straight Summer Meet Riding Title BALTIMORE – Sterling Road Stables and LBR Racing Stable’s Riccio, back in stakes company for the first time in 17 months, became a stakes winner for the first time in dominant fashion with a nine-length upset […]
Liz Merryman TOBA Finalist for Second Straight Year
Breeder of Three-Time Dirt and Turf Stakes Winner Witty Ness Nets Friday Hat Trick to Clinch Summer Training Title Twice Stakes-Placed Sheliahs Warcloud Nearing Comeback BALTIMORE – Largely thanks to her 5-year-old Grade 2-placed homebred Witty, a three-time stakes winner at Laurel Park, owner-trainer Elizabeth Merryman is a finalist to win a second straight national […]
Another Stakes Test for Cut From Class in $75,000 All Brandy
irst of Two $75,000 Turf Stakes on Closing Day Program Sunday 10 Races Friday to Launch Final Weekend of Laurel’s Summer Meet BALTIMORE – Cut From Class, stubborn in defeat to near-millionaire and two-time graded winner Sparkle Blue in an unplanned stakes debut last month, faces no such rival when she attempts to restart her […]
Crabs N Beer Chasing Elusive Stakes Win in $75,000 Find
One of Two Turf Stakes on 13-Race Closing Day Program Sunday BALTIMORE – Charles Blanford’s Grade 3-placed Crabs N Beer, beaten two lengths or less in each of his last four stakes attempts and fewer than three lengths on average in seven career tries, continues the quest for his breakthrough win in Sunday’s $75,000 Find […]
Jockey Torrealba Continues Hot Streak with Five-Win Sunday
Return to Dirt Possible for G3-Placed 3YO Filly Discreet Ops BALTIMORE – Jockey J.G. Torrealba continued what has been a torrid August with five winners on Sunday’s eight-race program at Laurel Park. The 22-year-old native of Venezuela moved into second place in the rider standings at Laurel’s 35-day summer meet, which wraps up Aug. 18 […]
Post Time Earning Respect in Older Horse Division
Trainer Brittany Russell: ‘This Horse Shows Up Every Time’ BALTIMORE – Following a second straight Grade 1 placing and closing in on $1 million in lifetime earnings, Hillwood Stable’s Maryland-bred and based multiple graded-stakes winner Post Time has emerged as a major player among older horses. The 4-year-old Frosted colt was beaten a neck for […]
Laurel Cancels Friday Program Due to Tropical Storm
Summer Meet Scheduled to Resume with Nine Races Saturday BALTIMORE – A forecast calling for high winds and heavy rain in the wake of Tropical Storm Debby has led the Maryland Jockey Club to cancel Friday’s nine-race program at Laurel Park. The tropical storm, which first made landfall last week in Florida, has moved up […]