Racing News

Friday's Stronach 5 Yields Multiple Payoffs of $12,378

05/21/2021

BALTIMORE – The national weekly Stronach 5 wager produced 10 winning tickets worth $12,378.30 each following Friday’s cross-country sequence.

A total of $138,309.19 was put into the popular multi-race, multi-track wager that features an industry-low 12 percent takeout. Friday’s sequence opened with three consecutive turf races on both coasts followed by a pair of West Coast main track races.

State Record Rainbow 6 Carryover Grows to $625,866 for Saturday

05/21/2021

Winston Pegg, Hightailing & Owner-Trainer Towler Break Maidens Friday
Jockey Carrasco, Trainer Trombetta Team Up for Friday Triple

BALTIMORE – After going unsolved Friday, the Maryland state record carryover jackpot in the 20-cent Rainbow 6 reached $625,866.27 for Saturday’s nine-race program at Pimlico Race Course.

Post time is 12:40 p.m.

Chance It Set for Long-Awaited Return in Sunday Feature

05/21/2021

Multiple Graded-Stakes Winner Tonalist’s Shape Returns Saturday

HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Shooting Star Thoroughbreds LLC’s Chance It found no easy spot to make his long-awaited return to the races in Sunday’s feature race at Gulfstream Park, where the popular multiple-stakes winner is scheduled to face five battle-tested rivals in a six-furlong optional claiming allowance.

Wondrwherecraigis Has Connections Excited After Impressive Comeback

05/21/2021

Multiple Stakes Winner Anna’s Bandit Breezes Wednesday, Nears Return
Sunday Program Includes Maiden Special Weight for Juvenile Fillies

BALTIMORE – Wonder no more. Michael Dubb, The Elkstone Group, Madaket Stables and Bethlehem Stables’ stakes-placed Wondrwherecraigis is back, and in a big way.

Impressive Debut Winner Sosua Fights Back to Take Thursday Feature

05/20/2021

Maryland State Record Rainbow 6 Carryover Reaches $598,522 for Friday

BALTIMORE – Mark B. Grier’s Sosua, favored at 4-5 off a 12 ¾-length debut victory March 31 at Tampa Bay Downs, set the pace into mid-stretch, briefly lost the lead and then fought back again along the inside to edge Pretty Edgy by a nose in Thursday’s featured seventh race at Pimlico Race Course.

Stronach 5 Kicks off With Allowance Race from Old Hilltop

05/20/2021

Four Tracks, 12-Percent Takeout

BALTIMORE – Friday’s Stronach 5 will feature full fields, four tracks, and an industry-low 12-percent takeout.

The popular wager, which had three winning tickets last week each worth $40,140, will feature racing from Pimlico Race Course, Gulfstream Park, Santa Anita Park and Golden Gate Fields and an industry-low 12-percent takeout.

Maryland Record $562,931 Rainbow 6 Carryover Thursday at Pimlico

05/19/2021

BALTIMORE - After going unsolved during an all-stakes sequence May 15 capped by Rombauer’s upset victory in the 146th Preakness (G1), Middle Jewel of the Triple Crown, the 20-cent Rainbow 6 will have a Maryland state record jackpot carryover of $562,931 when live racing returns to Pimlico Race Course Thursday.

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

Asmussen Earns Richest Preakness Weekend Trainer Bonus

05/19/2021

Edges Defending Champion Maker for Third Win in Five Years

BALTIMORE – Hall of Famer Steve Asmussen edged defending champion Mike Maker to claim the top prize of $50,000 for the third time in five years in the Maryland Jockey Club’s $100,000 trainer bonus offered to horsemen for their participation in stakes races over Preakness weekend, May 14-15, at Pimlico Race Course.

Preakness (G1) Hero Rombauer Headed for Belmont Monday

05/16/2021

Belmont Stakes (G1) Likely for Preakness Runner-Up Midnight Bourbon
Medina Spirit, Concert Tour Exit Preakness in Good Order

BALTIMORE – After a few hours of sleep, trainer Michael McCarthy was back at Pimlico Race Course Sunday morning, quietly talking about Rombauer’s emphatic victory in the 146th Preakness Stakes (G1) Saturday and looking ahead to the Belmont Stakes (G1).

Rombauer Rallies to Pull Upset in Saturday’s 146th Preakness Stakes (G1)

05/15/2021

Derby Winner Medina Spirit Fades to 3rd in Middle Jewel of Triple Crown

BALTIMORE – John and Diane Fradkin’s Rombauer staged a powerful rally through the stretch of Pimlico Race Course to register an 11-1 upset victory in Saturday’s 146th Preakness Stakes (G1).

The $1 million Preakness Stakes, renewed under sunny skies and temperatures in the 70s, highlighted a 14-race program with 10 stakes, six graded, worth $2.25 million.