Popular Multiple Stakes-Winning Sprinter Laki Retired

9-Year-Old Won 11 Races, Six Stakes, Including 2020 De Francis (G3) LAUREL, MD – Hillside Equestrian Meadows’ Laki, a winner of six career stakes topped by the 2020 Frank J. De Francis Memorial Dash (G3) who became a fan favorite throughout the Mid-Atlantic over six seasons of racing, has been retired. Bred in Maryland by […]
Smooth Sailing for Rough Sea in $100,000 Native Dancer

Kaylasaurus Earns Second Stakes Win in $100,000 Primonetta LAUREL, MD – Proud Stable, Inc.’s Rough Sea, making his 30th career start and first in a stakes, powered through the stretch on the far outside and pulled clear to spring a 40-1 upset in Saturday’s $100,000 Native Dancer at Laurel Park. The 54th running of the […]
Chez Pierre Stays Unbeaten in $100,000 Henry S. Clark Win

French-Bred Filly Rolls by 5 ½ Lengths in Turf Stakes Debut LAUREL, MD – Looking right at home in his Maryland debut, Lael Stables’ Chez Pierre kept his perfect record intact by turning back multiple graded-stakes winner Field Pass in the stretch and going on to a 5 ½-length victory in Saturday’s $100,000 Henry S. […]
Deciding Vote Opens Season with $100,000 Dahlia Victory

5-Year-Old Mare Edges Favored In a Hurry in Mile Turf Stakes LAUREL, MD – William Pape’s homebred Deciding Vote, making her stakes debut, reeled in favored front-runner In a Hurry in mid-stretch and surged past in the final eighth of a mile to capture Saturday’s $100,000 Dahlia at Laurel Park. The 20th running of the […]
True Valour Makes Triumphant Return in $100,000 King T. Leatherbury

Multiple Graded-Stakes Winner Posts Front-Running Victory in Turf Sprint LAUREL, MD – R. Larry Johnson’s multiple graded-stakes winner True Valour, an 8-year-old Irish-bred gelding racing for the first time in 13 months, made a triumphant return to competition with a front-running victory in Saturday’s $100,000 King T. Leatherbury at Laurel Park. The 5 ½-furlong Leatherbury […]
La Casa d’Oro Right at Home in Friday Maiden Triumph

Maryland-Bred Dialed In Filly Graduates for Trainer Russell Jevian Toledo Doubles to Take Over Spring Meet Riding Lead LAUREL, MD – The Elkstone Group’s Maryland homebred La Casa d’Oro, a 3-year-old daughter of Grade 1 winner Dialed In racing for the first time in her home state, put away a stubborn Visby inside the sixteenth […]
Multiple Stakes Winner Dontletsweetfoolya Trying Turf in Dahlia

Cox Looking for Reason to Celebrate with Ain’t Da Beer Cold American d’Oro Cutting Back for Season Debut in Leatherbury LAUREL, MD – Five Hellions Farm’s 5-year-old mare Dontletsweetfoolya, a multiple stakes winner on the dirt, is entered to make her turf debut in Saturday’s $100,000 Dahlia at Laurel Park. The one-mile Dahlia for fillies […]
G3-Placed In a Hurry Getting Restarted in $100,000 Dahlia

11 Rivals in One-Mile Turf Stakes for Shug McGaughey Trainee LAUREL, MD – Stuart Janney III’s homebred mare In a Hurry, Grade 3-placed two starts back for Hall of Fame trainer Shug McGaughey, returns to Laurel Park Saturday seeking her first stakes victory in the $100,000 Dahlia. The 20th running of the one-mile Dahlia for […]
Multiple Stakes Winner Forewarned Tops $100,000 Native Dancer

Cinnabunny Takes on Stakes-Winning Stablemates in $100,000 Primonetta LAUREL, MD – Trin-Brook Stables, Inc.’s 7-year-old gelding Forewarned, an 11-time career winner with multiple stakes victories in New York and Ohio, will continue chasing an elusive first victory in Maryland in Saturday’s $100,000 Native Dancer at Laurel Park. The 54th running of the 1 1/8-mile Native […]
Grateful Bred Launches Comeback in $100,000 King T. Leatherbury

Saturday’s Turf Sprint Among Five $100,000 Stakes, First Three on Grass LAUREL, MD – When it comes to her stable star, trainer Madison Meyers has plenty to be Grateful about. Gordon Keys’ Maryland homebred Grateful Bred provided Meyers with her first victory at a recognized flat track July 11, 2020 at Laurel Park, after she […]