Still Having Fun, Limited View Among 123 St. Patrick’s Day Stakes Noms
Still Having Fun, Limited View Among 123 St. Patrick’s Day Stakes Noms
Private Terms for 3-Year-Olds Tops Five Stakes Worth $450,000 in Purses
Laurel Hosting Rescheduled Nine-Race Program Monday, March 5
Rainbow 6 Carryover $31,205, Super Hi-5 Carryover $4,975
LAUREL, MD – Multiple stakes-winning sophomores Still Having Fun and Limited View are among 123 nominees to five stakes worth $450,000 in purses Saturday, March 17 at Laurel Park.
Gary Barber, Wachtel Stable and Terp Racing’s Still Having Fun tops 31 horses nominated to the $100,000 Private Terms at 1 1/16 miles for 3-year-olds. The bay Old Fashioned colt has won three of his four starts including the Frank Whiteley Jr. and Miracle Wood in successive starts and is a neck shy of being undefeated.
Whirlin Curlin, the only horse to beat Still Having Fun in the Maryland Juvenile Futurity Dec. 9, is also nominated, along with fellow multiple stakes winner Bal Harbour; Heft Stakes winner Diamond King, third in the Swale (G3) Feb. 3 at Gulfstream; 2017 Tremont Stakes winner He Hate Me; Old Time Revival, stubborn Miracle Wood runner-up at 34-1; and multiple stakes-placed V.I.P. Code and Wentz.
Limited View, owned by Fred Wasserloos, George Greenwalt and trainer John Salzman Jr., heads 27 nominees in the $100,000 Beyond the Wire, formerly the Caesar’s Wish, for 3-year-old fillies at one mile. The bay Freedom Child filly is five-for-six lifetime at Laurel, winning the Maryland Million Lassie and Maryland Juvenile Filly Championship at 2 and the Marshua Stakes Jan. 27.
Strategic Dreams, who beat Limited View in the Gin Talking Stakes Dec. 30 at Laurel, is also nominated, along with 2017 Tempted (G3) winner Daisy; Enchanted Ghost, Deep Red and Aggregator, the top three finishers from Laurel’s Wide Country Stakes Feb. 17; multiple stakes winner Midnight Disguise and Smokinpaddylassie, unbeaten in two career starts.
Multiple Grade 3 winner El Areeb, claimer-turned-millionaire graded-stakes winner Page McKenney, multiple stakes winners Afleet Willy, Bodhisattva, Control Group, John Jones, O Dionysus and graded stakes-placed Hedge Fund are prominent among 25 nominees to the $100,000 Harrison E. Johnson Memorial Stakes for 3-year-olds and up at 1 1/8 miles.
Maryland-bred/sired sprinters 3 and older will share the spotlight in the $75,000 Not For Love at six furlongs and $75,000 Conniver for fillies and mares going seven furlongs.
Rainbow 6, Super Hi-5 Carryovers for Monday, March 5
Monday’s nine-race program at Laurel, postponed from Friday due to weather, will have a jackpot carryover of $31,205.08 in the 20-cent Rainbow 6.
Multiple tickets with all six winners returned $1,850.24. The popular multi-race wager covers races 4-9 on Monday’s card.
There will also be a carryover of $4,975.65 in the $1 Super Hi-5 for Monday’s opener.
