Racing News

Jockey Torrealba Continues Hot Streak with Five-Win Sunday

08/11/2024

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 and has three scheduled racing days remaining. His 30 wins trail only Jaime Rodriguez (39), who won twice Sunday.

Post Time Earning Respect in Older Horse Division

08/09/2024

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.

Laurel Cancels Friday Program Due to Tropical Storm

08/08/2024

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 the East Coast and was expected to pass through the Mid-Atlantic region bringing wind gusts of up to 33 mph and as much as two inches of rain according to the National Weather Service.

Crabs N Beer Tops 20 Nominations to $75,000 Find Aug. 18

08/07/2024

Joins $75,000 All Brandy on Laurel Summer Meet Closing Day

BALTIMORE – Grade 3-placed Crabs N Beer, runner-up in last year’s race, and two-time Maryland Million Turf winner Wicked Prankster are among 20 nominees to the $75,000 Find for Maryland-bred/sired horses Sunday, Aug. 18 at Laurel Park.

Malibu Beauty Springs Upset in $100,000 Caesar’s Wish

08/04/2024

Give It a Whirl Captures $100,000 Bald Eagle Derby
Roanan Goddess Rules in $100,000 Searching

BALTIMORE – ZWP Stable, Inc. and Non Stop Stable’s 6-year-old homebred mare Malibu Beauty dueled with favored Saddle Up Jessie through the stretch before edging clear inside the eighth pole and drawing away to a 2 ¾-length victory in Sunday’s $100,000 Caesar’s Wish at Laurel Park.

Madison Meyers Looking to Transfer July Heat into August

08/02/2024

Trainer Has Stakes Winner Desvio in Sunday’s Bald Eagle Derby
Post Time Facing Biggest Test Yet in Saturday’s G1 Whitney

BALTIMORE – Madison Meyers, for one, was sorry to flip her calendar this week. Racing primarily at Laurel Park, the Middleburg, Va.-based trainer enjoyed one of the best months of her career in July, winning with five of 13 starters to go along with three seconds and two thirds.

Mugatu Back on Grass for $100,000 Bald Eagle Derby

08/01/2024

1 1/8-Mile Stakes One of Two Scheduled for Laurel Turf

BALTIMORE – At one point or another this spring, Average Joe Racing Stables, Ltd. and Dan Wells’ Mugatu faced all three Triple Crown race winners, two of them coming in his last trip to Maryland for the May 18 Preakness Stakes (G1).

Eighth in the Middle Jewel of the Triple Crown, Mugatu will be up against a different class of horses on a surface he hasn’t tried in more than seven months in Sunday’s $100,000 Bald Eagle Derby for 3-year-olds at Laurel Park.

Belle of Rights Chasing Stakes Win in $100,000 Searching

08/01/2024

First of Three $100,000 Stakes on Laurel’s Sunday Program

BALTIMORE – Emory Hamilton’s homebred Belle of Rights, alternating wins and seconds through four starts since graduating on debut in mid-February, can continue that pattern and become a stakes winner in the process in Sunday’s $100,000 Searching at Laurel Park.

G2 Winner Affirmative Lady to Return in Caesar’s Wish

07/31/2024

 

Second of Three $100,000 Stakes on Sunday, Aug. 4 Program

BALTIMORE – Mo Speed Racing’s Grade 2 winner Affirmative Lady, unraced since finishing 11th in the Kentucky Oaks (G1) last spring, is set to make her highly anticipated return to competition for new connections in Sunday’s $100,000 Caesar’s Wish at Laurel Park.

Dean ‘Delivers’ Again in $150,000 De Francis Dash

07/28/2024

G3 Winner Apple Picker Gets Back on Track in Alma North
Frosted Departure Goes the Distance in Deputed Testamony

BALTIMORE – Stonehedge homebred Dean Delivers capped a successful and emotional day for his connections, leading all the way around and repelling a late bid from 40-1 longshot Five Dreams to register a three-quarter-length triumph in Sunday’s listed $150,000 Frank J. De Francis Memorial Dash.