Racing News

Millionaire Field Pass Tops 24 Nominees to $75,000 Find Aug. 19

08/06/2023

$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 for the $75,000 Find to be run Saturday, Aug. 19 at Laurel Park.

MJC Fall Champions Handicapping Tournament Aug. 19

08/02/2023

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.

Bald Eagle Derby Attracts 33 Nominations

08/01/2023

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 Eagle Derby to be run Sunday, Aug. 13 at Laurel Park.

Lightening Larry ‘Doing Fine’ Following De Francis Dash Win

07/30/2023

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 Laurel Park, returned to Monmouth Park where trainer Jorge Delgado reported Sunday he is ‘doing fine.’

Lightening Larry Strikes in $150,000 Frank J. De Francis Dash

07/29/2023

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 Frank J. De Francis Memorial Dash by a half-length at Laurel Park.

Be Better Proves Best in $100,000 Deputed Testamony

07/29/2023

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

07/29/2023

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 at Laurel Park.

Bargain Sir Wellington Taking Aim at De Francis Dash

07/28/2023

$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 Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium, a year before the owners made Xtreme Gem a $625,000 session topper at the same post-Preakness Stakes (G1) auction.

Nimitz Class Ships to Laurel for $100,000 Deputed Testamony

07/27/2023

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.

It’s Viper Looking to Strike in $75,000 Star de Naskra

07/27/2023

Malibu Moonshine Set to Make Return in $75,000 Miss Disco
De Francis Dash Program Features Five Stakes Worth $500,000

BALTIMORE – The Elkstone Group’s homebred It’s Viper, in for a $30,000 tag for his graduation last fall, faces eight rivals as looks to make the rise to stakes winner in Saturday’s $75,000 Star de Naskra at Laurel Park.