Proton Charges Home To Win Laurel Futurity
Edward Deicke Wins Handicapping Challenge With Late Heroics By Vinnie Perrone LAUREL, MD — Proton showed reluctance to start Saturday’s $125,000 Laurel Futurity, and eagerness to finish it. As his 2-year-old rivals stood in the starting gate, Proton dawdled atop the grass as if to stoke the prerace drama. Then he loaded without a fuss, […]
Ultimate Love Remains Unbeaten in Selima
Sarah White trains first winner LAUREL, MD —“She might be a good one,” trainer Michael Trombetta said as Ultimate Love walked back to the barn area after winning Saturday’s $125,000 Selima Stakes for 2-year-old fillies at 1 1/16 miles on the turf. She might be at that. Ultimate Love remained unbeaten from three starts after […]
Top Gun Girl Fires Best Shot in Friday Feature at Laurel Park
LAUREL, MD— On paper, Top Gun Girl looked like the controlling speed in Friday’s featured eighth race, a third-level allowance with a $55,000 claiming option for fillies and mares at six furlongs. On the track, Top Gun Girl didn’t disappoint the pace analysts. She broke quickly under jockey Mychel Sanchez, and soon assumed a 2 […]
Proton Faces Class Test in Laurel Futurity
Ultimate Love Heads Selima Laurel Park Hosts Autumn Handicapping Challenge LAUREL, MD — Impressive debut winner Proton steps up in class and distance in Saturday’s $125,000 Laurel Futurity for 2-year-olds at 1 1/16 miles on turf. The Laurel Futurity is one of two stakes races on an 11-race program that drew 119 entries for an […]
A Day with Michael Trombetta
Through the Long Stretch: The Craft of Relationships and Racehorses By Mackenzie Pfeiffer Barn, track, repeat. This is the ebb and flow of a morning in the barn with Michael Trombetta. With over 80 horses in training, no detail is left to chance. Wearing his Kentucky Derby 132 jacket, the legacy of great horses and […]
Rominski Earns Thirteenth Lifetime Victory in Sunday Feature
6-year-old gelding has 11 wins from 20 starts at Laurel LAUREL, MD — On Saturday afternoon, before the first race, trainer Brittany Russell’s Rominski schooled in the paddock. “He looks fit,” remarked Mackenzie Pfeiffer, Racing Analyst for The Maryland Jockey Club. On Sunday afternoon, Rominski ran to his appearance, besting a tough field of sprinters […]
Maida Romps in $100,000 Weather Vane Stakes at Laurel Park
Improbable filly won third consecutive start LAUREL, MD — Earlier in the week, trainer Brittany Russell spoke highly of Maida, one of two runners she prepared for Saturday’s $100,000 Weather Vane Stakes for 3-year-old fillies racing six furlongs at Laurel Park. “We think a lot of her,” Russell said. “She’s acted like she’s something good […]
Grayson’s Girl Fires Late to Win Friday Feature at Laurel Park
Jockey Carlos Lopez rides 500th winner LAUREL, MD —Grayson’s Girl was bred in Maryland by Matt Dorman’s 2500 Determined Stud, and the gray daughter of Gift Box was nothing but determined during the stretch drive of Friday’s featured seventh race at Laurel Park, a state-sired allowance for fillies and mares at six furlongs. As is […]
Maida Seeks First Stakes Victory in $100,000 Weather Vane
Laurel Park hosts “Cigars On the Rail” on Saturday LAUREL, MD — Goodfella’s LLC’s Maida faces the toughest test of her career on Saturday in Laurel Park’s $100,000 Weather Vane Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at six furlongs An Improbable half-sister to stakes-placed dirt sprinter I’m Patriotic out of Grade 3 winner Eve Giselle, Maida finished […]
A Day with Suzanne Stettinius
Running her own race By Mackenzie Pfeiffer If there’s one thing Suzanne Stettinius isn’t, it’s ordinary. Whether she’s scoring an upset win or offering candid insights into the highs and lows of the racing world, her humor, humility, and competitive drive make her an undeniable force. In a rare instance when Suzanne sat still, I […]
