Fan Favorite G3 Winner Cordmaker Set to Launch Comeback
Advance Wagering Friday on Saturday’s Full Breeders’ Cup Card
Rainbow 6 Carryover $16,775 Friday; 11:25 A.M. Post Saturday

BALTIMORE – The return of fan favorite Cordmaker, advance wagering on Saturday’s entire Breeders’ Cup program from Keeneland, and a 20-cent Rainbow 6 carryover approaching $17,0000 will be on tap when live racing returns to Laurel Park Friday, Nov. 4.

This is the first of three consecutive Friday through Monday weekends at Laurel. First race post time is 12:15 p.m.

Laurel will open its doors at 11 a.m. Friday. First race post time at Keeneland is 11:55 a.m. with the first of five Breeders’ Cup races, the $1 million Juvenile Turf Sprint (G1), scheduled for 3 p.m.

Friday’s Race 9 from Keeneland is the $2 million Juvenile (G1) which drew a field of 10 including Tami Bobo and Lugamo Racing Stable’s Congruent, winner of the Oct. 1 Laurel Futurity, who drew Post 2 and will be ridden by Jose Ortiz for trainer Antonio Sano. Post time for the Juvenile is 5 p.m.

Also on Friday, Laurel will offer advance wagering on the entire 12-race card from Keeneland including two-day doubles linking the Juvenile Fillies (G1) and Distaff (G1), Juvenile and Classic (G1) and Juvenile Turf (G1) and Turf (G1).

Hillwood Stable’s 7-year-old Cordmaker, unraced since becoming a graded-stakes winner in the Feb. 19 General George (G3) at Laurel, is entered to launch his comeback in Friday’s featured Race 8, a one-mile optional claiming allowance for 3-year-olds and up.

Trained by Rodney Jenkins, the gelded Maryland-bred son of two-time Horse of the Year and 2014 Hall of Famer Curlin was entered in the $150,000 Maryland Million Classic Oct. 22 but did not draw into the field. Cordmaker has won four straight races to bring his total to 14 wins, 10 in stakes, and $989,640 in purse earnings from 36 career starts. Richard Monterrey, subbing for injured regular rider Victor Carrasco, gets the call from Post 7 in a field of nine as the 7-5 program favorite.

Also entered are The Poser, third in the Maryland Million Classic for a second straight year; multiple stakes winner Local Motive, 0-for-4 since taking the one-mile Miracle Wood Feb. 19 at Laurel; multiple stakes-placed Plot the Dots, racing first off the claim for trainer Norman ‘Lynn’ Cash; American d’Oro, a 9 ¼-length winner last out going 1 1/8 miles Oct. 13 at Laurel; Famished, most recently fourth in Laurel’s Oct. 1 Challedon; Treasure Trove and the entry of Benandjoe and Excellorator.

One race earlier is an open allowance for 3-year-olds and up scheduled for 1 1/16 miles on the Bowl Game turf course led by narrow 3-1 morning-line favorite Crisper, third two starts back behind four-time stakes winner Buy Land and See in the Alphabet Soup Handicap at Parx, and including Beltway Bob, 12-1 upset winner of the Maryland Million Turf Starter Handicap.

Both races are part of the sequence for the Rainbow 6 (Races 4-9), where the jackpot carryover reached $16,775.39 after going unsolved on the last live program Sunday.

On Saturday, Laurel will open its doors at 10 a.m. to accommodate Keeneland’s first-race post of 10:30 a.m. The first of nine Breeders’ Cup races, the Filly & Mare Sprint (G1), is scheduled for 11:50 a.m. with the $6 million Classic, featuring undefeated Flightline and $3 million Pegasus World Cup (G1) winner Life Is Good, set for 5:40 p.m.

Laurel will offer 10 live races Saturday highlighted by back-to-back allowances for 3-year-olds and up. Race 8 is scheduled for 5 ½ furlongs on the Bowl Game turf course and features Biz Biz Buzz, third in the Futurity (G3) on turf at Belmont after breaking his maiden on the grass at Laurel last fall.

Race 9 is sprinting six furlongs on the main track. Last out winners Askin for a Baskin and Elusive Agent; 4-year-old Chocolate Shake, a debut maiden special weight winner Sept. 17 at historic Pimlico Race Course in his lone start; and Souper Royal Moon, racing as a gelding for the first time in his first start since Feb. 10 are among the field of six.

Laurel will have a special first-race post time of 11:25 a.m. Saturday.