Racing News

Special Reserve Making Season Debut in De Francis Dash

07/13/2022

Graded Winners Wondrwherecraigis, Pickin’ Time Among Rivals
Six-Furlong Sprint Headlines Four Stakes Worth $450,000 Saturday

LAUREL, MD – Paradise Farms Corp. and David Staudacher’s claimer-turned-multiple graded-stakes winner Special Reserve, unraced since a troubled trip in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) last fall, will face seven rivals including Grade 3 winners Wondrwherecraigis and Pickin’ Time for his 6-year-old debut in Saturday’s $150,000 Frank J. De Francis Memorial Dash at Laurel Park.

Beren Works Sunday, Bound for $150,000 De Francis Dash

07/10/2022

Multiple Stakes-Winning 4YO Sharp in Half-Mile Move at Parx
Factor It In Springs 8-1 Upset in Sunday’s Allowance Feature
Live Action Returns to Laurel with 10-Race Program July 15

LAUREL, MD – Susan Quick and Christopher Feifarek’s multiple stakes-winning homebred Beren, whose 17 career races have come at 10 different racetracks, will make his Maryland debut next weekend in the $150,000 Frank J. De Francis Memorial Dash at Laurel Park.

Sunday Feature Win Could Land Eastern Bay in De Francis Dash

07/09/2022

8-Year-Old Gelding Chasing 17th Career Victory in Allowance Sprint
Champion Jockey Jevian Toledo Enjoys Four-Win Day Saturday
20-Cent Rainbow 6 Solved Saturday for $32,868 Jackpot Payoff

LAUREL, MD – Built Wright Stables’ 8-year-old gelding Eastern Bay, riding a two-race win streak, will be chasing both his 17th career victory as well as a return to stakes competition Sunday at Laurel Park.

G3 Winner ‘Craig’ Headed to De Francis Following Friday Breeze

07/08/2022

Six-Furlong Sprint Tops Four Stakes Worth $450,000 in Purses July 16
Rainbow 6 Carryover Reaches $28,668 for Saturday’s Nine-Race Card
G2 Black-Eyed Susan Winner Returns Saturday in Indiana Oaks (G3)

LAUREL, MD – Madaket Stables, The Elkstone Group and Michael Dubb’s Grade 3 winner Wondrwherecraigis is headed to the $150,000 Frank J. De Francis Memorial Dash July 16 following his half-mile breeze Friday morning at Laurel Park.

Owner-Trainer Cortez Enjoying Success with Audacious Quality

07/07/2022

5-Year-Old Gelding Favored for Return in Laurel’s Friday Feature
$25,412 Rainbow 6 Carryover for Friday’s Eight-Race Program

LAUREL, MD – Her stable recently expanded to two horses, but even when it was just one, Amy Cortez wouldn’t have had it any other way.

Journeyman Sheldon Russell ‘Thrilled’ to Be Back Riding

07/06/2022

Elite Maryland Jockey Missed 296 Days Following Injury

LAUREL, MD – Having secured his first win on the first day of his comeback, Sheldon Russell is going about getting back to business. The 34-year-old journeyman, an eight-time meet champion in Maryland, waited 296 days between rides – nearly 10 months – and isn’t about to rush things.

Nine Live Races on Special Fourth of July Holiday Program

07/03/2022

Stakes Winner Courvoisier Makes Return in Monday Feature
Food & Drink Specials, Rainbow 6 Jackpot Carryover at $22,092

LAUREL, MD – Nine live races, food and drink specials and a 20-cent Rainbow 6 carryover in five figures will be on the menu when Laurel Park serves up a special Independence Day holiday program Monday.

First race post time is 12:40 p.m.

Trio of Graded Winners Top 28 De Francis Dash Nominations

07/03/2022

Six-Furlong Sprint Headlines Four Stakes Worth $450,000 July 16

LAUREL, MD – Graded-stakes winners Wondrwherecraigis, Special Reserve and Pickin’ Time, fellow multiple stakes winners Ny Traffic, Beren and Royal Urn, and multiple graded-stakes placed War Tocsin are among 28 horses nominated to the $150,000 Frank J. De Francis Memorial Dash at Laurel Park.

Old Homestead Returns to Winning Ways in $100,000 Concern

07/02/2022

Fourth Win in Five Starts, Second in Stakes, for 3-Year-Old Sprinter

LAUREL, MD – Marablue Farm and Pegasus Stud’s Old Homestead, knocked from the ranks of the unbeaten in his last trip to Maryland, got back on the winning track in his return with a popular one-length triumph in Saturday’s $100,000 Concern at Laurel Park.

Hybrid Eclipse Proves Too Tough in $100,000 Caesar’s Wish

07/02/2022

Jockey Toledo Won Stakes Earlier Saturday at Delaware Park

LAUREL, MD – Jockey Jevian Toledo was the author of three perfect trips Saturday afternoon, two on the horses he rode to stakes victories in different states and one in the car to get him back and forth.

Two and a half hours after guiding Whereshetoldmetogo to a popular triumph in the Alapocas Run at Delaware Park, Toledo was aboard for an even more lopsided score on Hybrid Eclipse in the $100,000 Caesar’s Wish at Laurel Park.