Racing News

Racing Returns Friday with Record Carryover at $1.35 Million

07/01/2021

Video: Rainbow 6 Insights from MJC Host-Analyst Naomi Tukker
Four Stakes, Mandatory Payout Scheduled for Sunday, July 4

BALTIMORE – Historic Pimlico Race Course launches its July schedule Friday with an Independence Day holiday weekend of live racing featuring four stakes worth $375,000 in purses and a Maryland state record carryover jackpot of $1,351,928.63 in the 20-cent Rainbow 6.

Artful Splatter Seeks Reversal of Fortune in $100,000 Caesar's Wish

07/01/2021

Former Claimer Now Multiple Stakes Winner Starts in 1 1/16-Mile Stakes

BALTIMORE – James Wolf’s durable Artful Splatter, an eight-time career winner from 29 lifetime starts, will attempt to reverse her recent fortunes and become a stakes winner for the third time in Sunday’s $100,000 Caesar’s Wish at historic Pimlico Race Course.

Record-Setting Yaupon Returns for Sunday's $100,000 Lite the Fuse

07/01/2021

Multiple Graded-Stakes Winner Facing Six Rivals in Six-Furlong Sprint

BALTIMORE – Bill and Corinne Heiligbrodt’s Yaupon, record-setting winner of the Chick Lang (G3) last fall, returns to Maryland looking to recapture his winning form in Sunday’s $100,000 Lite the Fuse at Pimlico Race Course.

Mandatory Rainbow 6 Payout Scheduled for July 4 Holiday Program

06/30/2021

Maryland State Record Carryover Jackpot at $1.351 Million for Friday

BALTIMORE – A mandatory payout in the Rainbow 6, currently featuring a Maryland state record carryover jackpot, has been scheduled for Sunday’s stakes-filled Independence Day holiday program at historic Pimlico Race Course.

Entering Friday’s eight-race program that begins at 12:40 p.m., the jackpot stands at $1,351,928.63. The popular multi-race wager has gone unsolved for 25 consecutive racing days since being hit for a $23,346.70 payout May 7.

G3 Winner Harpers First Ride Too Tough in Sunday Feature

06/27/2021

Completes Hat Trick for Trainer Gonzalez, Jockey Cruz
Record Rainbow 6 Carryover Grows to $1.351 Million for Friday, July 2

BALTIMORE – GMP Stables, Arnold Bennewith and Cypress Creek Equine’s Harpers First Ride, reunited with trainer Claudio Gonzalez and jockey Angel Cruz for the first time in six months, returned to the winner’s circle with a 1 ¼-length victory in Sunday’s feature at historic Pimlico Race Course.

Record Rainbow 6 Carryover Survives, Tops $1.3 Million Sunday

06/26/2021

Video: Rainbow 6 Insights from MJC Host-Analyst Naomi Tukker

BALTIMORE – Even-money favorite Aperitivo held off Supporting Actor the length of the stretch to capture Saturday’s ninth-race finale at historic Pimlico Race Course and keep the Maryland state record 20-cent Rainbow 6 carryover jackpot alive for another day.

G3 Winner Mighty Mischief Tops 25 Nominees to $100,000 Concern

06/26/2021

102 Total Nominations for Four Stakes Worth $375,000 Sunday, July 4

BALTIMORE – Four horses from the May 15 Chick Lang (G3), including impressive winner Mighty Mischief and third-place finisher Hemp, are among 25 3-year-olds nominated to the $100,000 Concern Sunday, July 4 at historic Pimlico Race Course.

G3 Pimlico Special Winner Harpers First Ride Returns Sunday

06/25/2021

Record Rainbow 6 Carryover Grows to $1.27 Million for Saturday

BALTIMORE - Harpers First Ride is back in the barn of Maryland’s leading trainer Claudio Gonzalez, for whom he won nine of 15 starts including Laurel’s Deputed Testamony, Richard W. Small and Native Dancer in addition to the Pimlico Special in 2020 before being sold prior to a run in the Jan. 23 Pegasus World Cup Invitational (G1) at Gulfstream Park.

Pimlico Undergoing Enhanced Maintenance of Turf Course

06/25/2021

Grass Races Scheduled Friday & Saturday Moved to Main Track

BALTIMORE – With the Preakness Meet at historic Pimlico Race Course stretched into

August amid ongoing renovations of the main track at Laurel Park, turf racing has been put on hold for the upcoming weekend to ready the grass course for its extended use.

Racing Returns Friday with Record Carryover at $1.25 Million

06/24/2021

Video: Rainbow 6 Insights from MJC Host-Analyst Naomi Tukker

BALTIMORE – Live racing returns to historic Pimlico Race Course Friday to kick off the final weekend of June with another opportunity to take down a Maryland state record carryover jackpot in the 20-cent Rainbow 6 that has swelled to $1,253,882.76.

Post time for the first of eight races Friday is 12:40 p.m.