Severe Weather Forces Pimlico Cancellation Saturday
Live Action Returns with Seven-Race Program Sunday LAUREL, MD – A severe weather system passing through the area, producing heavy rain and multiple lighting strikes, forced the cancellation of Saturday’s live race program at historic Pimlico Race Course. Forecast to bring wind gusts up to 60 mph and quarter-size hail, the storm rolled in shortly […]
Stakes-Quality Feature Spices Up Sunday Card at Pimlico
Kenny Had a Notion Facing Fellow Stakes Winners in Comeback LAUREL, MD – Louis Ulman and Neil Glasser’s multiple stakes-winning 3-year-old Kenny Had a Notion, unraced in 149 days, will face older horses for the first time when he launches his comeback Sunday at Pimlico Race Course. The stakes-quality, third-level optional claiming allowance for 3-year-olds […]
Trainer Brittany Russell’s Progression Taking Her to Saratoga
Pimlico-Based 31-Year-Old to Have First Spa String This Summer Hello Beautiful Pointing to $100,000 Alma North July 31 at Pimlico Live Racing Returns Friday, G3-Placed Apostle Entered Saturday LAUREL, MD – Though only in her fourth full season of training, Brittany Russell appreciates the history behind her. Based year-round in Maryland, she currently ranks sixth […]
Pixelate Joins Six Graded Winners Among BWI Turf Cup (G3) Nominations
One-Mile Event Tops Four Grass Stakes Worth $500,000 July 24 at Pimlico LAUREL, MD – Godolphin homebred Pixelate, coming off a victory in last month’s Prince George’s County over the track, is one of seven graded-stakes winners among 28 horses nominated to the $200,000 Baltimore-Washington International Turf Cup (G3) Saturday, July 24 at historic Pimlico […]
Juvenile Mr. Mox Gutsy Debut Winner Sunday at Pimlico
Jockey Pimentel Sweeps Sunday Features on Beacon Hill, Gunnison LAUREL, MD – Jamie Ness owned-and-trained 2-year-old gelding Mr. Mox, by first-year sire Divining Rod, held on for a determined, front-running neck triumph in his career debut Sunday at Pimlico Race Course. Ridden by Jaime Rodriguez, Mr. Mox ($10.20) ran five furlongs in 58.28 seconds over […]
Nominations Close Saturday for July 24 Stakes at Historic Pimlico
BWI Turf Cup (G3) Tops Four Turf Stakes Worth $500,000 in Purses Juvenile Filly Hicktown Graduates, Air Token Captures Friday Feature LAUREL, MD – Nominations close Saturday for four grass stakes worth $500,000 in purses to be held July 24 at historic Pimlico Race Course headlined by the $200,000 Baltimore-Washington International Turf Cup (G3). The […]
Happy Homecoming for Ellanation & Dark Hollow Farm
Turf Sprint Stakes Winner Rewards Patience, Perseverance Stakes Winner Bought Back for $8,000 LAUREL, MD – He didn’t know it at the time, but when Dark Hollow Farm’s David Hayden purchased a bay filly with chipped knees and an uncertain future last year, he got more than just an eventual broodmare. He had found himself […]
Pimlico’s Mandatory Rainbow 6 Payout Returns $31,028
LAUREL, MD – The mandatory payout of the 20-cent Rainbow 6, featuring a state-record jackpot carryover, returned $31,028.08 Sunday at Pimlico Race Course. There was a carryover of $1,435,080 and $5,110,191 of new money wagered on a Sunday program featuring four stakes races. The Rainbow 6 kicked off with 5-1 shot Behind the Couch ($13) […]
Yaupon Makes Successful Return in $100,000 Lite the Fuse
Beats Fellow Graded-Stakes Winners Laki, Chateau in Sprint LAUREL, MD – Bill and Corinne Heiligbrodt’s multiple graded-stakes winner Yaupon made a triumphant return to historic Pimlico Race Course Sunday, putting away pacesetting Chateau and turning back Laki – both Grade 3 winners – to snap a two-race losing streak in the $100,000 Lite the Fuse. […]
Mrs. Orb Surges Late to Capture $100,000 Caesar’s Wish
Ellanation Rallies for First Stakes Victory in $75,000 Jameela LAUREL, MD – Ruggeri Stable, Richard Coburn, Script R Farm and trainer Michael Miceli’s Mrs. Orb, a two-time New York-bred stakes winner, came with a steady run down the center of the track to reel in Trolley Ride and surge past late for a popular half-length […]
