It’s a Family Affair for Tideoftime in Sunday’s Feature at Laurel Park
Jockey J. G. Torrealba wins three races LAUREL, MD—Twenty-two years ago, trainer Jimmy Toner saddled Ellie’s Moment, a homebred daughter of Kris S. owned by Joan and John Phillips’s Phillips Racing Partnership, to a 6 ½ length victory in Aqueduct’s Rare Treat Handicap Nine years ago, Toner and the Phillips tasted Grade 1 glory when […]
Barbadian Runner Upsets Post Time in Milton P. Higgins III Maryland Million Classic
Yedsit Hazlewood wins four races; Jevian Toledo becomes the winningest Jim McKay Maryland Million jockeyAll-sources handle for 12-race program tops $5.7 million LAUREL, MD—Barbadian Runner upset reigning Maryland-bred Horse of the Year Post Time in Laurel Park’s $150,000 Milton P. Higgins III Maryland Million Classic, the featured event on Saturday’s 12-race Jim McKay Maryland Million […]
Slam Notion Stalks and Pounces in Fair Hill Training Center Maryland Million Sprint
Teenage sensation Hazlewood earns first stakes win with Onyx Ten in Shamrock Farm Maryland Million Distaff LAUREL, MD— The consistent Slam Notion tracked three wide under jockey Jevian Toledo, made a bid from that path on the turn, then dug in determinedly to deny a game Twisted Ride in Saturday’s $100,000 Maryland Million Sprint for […]
Big Cuddle Overcomes Big Trouble in Fasig-Tipton Maryland Million Nursery
Can’t jinx classy Slewperstitus in Glenangus Farm Maryland Million Lassie LAUREL, MD—Jockey Yedsit Hazlewood raised his whip to the heavens and swung it jubilantly as Big Cuddle overcame a seemingly disastrous start to rally past them in Saturday’s $100,000 Fasig-Tipton Maryland Million Nursery for 2-year-olds racing six furlongs at Laurel Park. It was the fourth […]
Toledo Makes History in 1/ST BET Maryland Million Turf Sprint
Coringa captures John Deere Maryland Million Turf in gate-to-wire styleWorth a Dime mints a TAA Maryland Million Ladies upset LAUREL, MD–Jevian Toledo has been a Maryland racing mainstay over the past several years, but he ensured his place in the record books on Saturday when he guided Had to Have Him to victory in the […]
Consistent Change My World Breaks Through in Friday Feature
Laurel hosts 40th edition of Jim McKay Maryland Million on Saturday LAUREL, MD—Since reaching the winner’s circle in his third lifetime start, a six-furlong maiden special weight at Laurel Park on Feb 2, it’s been close but no cigar for the consistent Change My World. In nine subsequent outings leading up to Friday’s featured ninth […]
Post Time Looms Large in $150,000 Milton P. Higgins III Maryland Million Classic
“Maryland’s Day at the Races” at Laurel Park on Saturday LAUREL, MD— Post Time, the reigning Maryland-bred Horse of the Year, is the headline attraction for Saturday’s 40th edition of the Jim McKay Maryland Million, presented by Brown Advisory. Special first post for the 12-race program is 11:30 a.m. ET. Gates open at 10:00 a.m. […]
A Day with John E. Williamson III
From Pony Rides to the Maryland Million By Mackenzie Pfeiffer There’s a certain kind of Maryland horseman whose story feels stitched into the fabric of the state’s racing history – steady, genuine, and quietly devoted. John E. Williamson III is one of them. His new car has nearly 80,000 miles on it, and he describes […]
Lady Ensign Wires Them in Sunday Feature
Post Time draws post five in Milton P. Higgins III Memorial Maryland Million Classic LAUREL, MD—”He’s got something that you [only] see once in a while,” trainer Hugh McMahon said of apprentice rider Yedsit Hazlewood after the teenage phenom piloted Lady Ensign to a gate-to-wire victory in Sunday’s featured eighth race at Laurel Park, a […]
Sun Above Overcomes Slow Start to Capture Debut
Yedsit Hazlewood rides three winners LAUREL, MD— “Yeah, baby,” exclaimed Weston Hamilton right as he coasted under the wire aboard Sun Above in Saturday’s featured fifth race at Laurel Park, a $47,000 maiden special weight for 2-year-olds at one mile on turf. Hamilton had every right to be excited about the victory, his second win […]
