Momaxie remains unbeaten
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LAUREL, MD—For the second consecutive day, trainer Gary Capuano and jockey Yedsit Hazlewood teamed up to win with a promising 3-year-old at Laurel Park.

On Friday, it was Awesome Andy.

This afternoon, Let’s Go Lando enjoyed a comfortable victory in the seventh race, a $49,000 first-level allowance over one mile.

Lundi Loot and Wildncrazyguy battled for the early lead through fractions of 24.82 and 49.05 seconds, with Let’s Go Lando tucked neatly behind them in the pocket.

Lundi Loot created separation from his pace foes after six furlongs in 1:15.53, but the others closed in. G Q Worthy surged with an outside bid, followed by favored Code of Silence, the recent winner of the restricted Maryland Juvenile Stakes.

Those two loomed boldly but briefly as Hazlewood eased Let’s Go Lando to the two-path for a clear run. They surged past Lundi Loot and drove home to win by six lengths in 1:41.32 on the sealed, sloppy track.

Lundi Loot came in second, half a length ahead of Code of Silence. Then came G Q Worthy, Tactics, Hixon, and Wildncrazyguy.

Let’s Go Lando paid $8.40 to win as the public’s second choice.

“He got a good trip,” Capuano said. “I told [Hazlewood] to be patient.”

Bred by ZWP Stable and Non Stop Stable, Let's Go Lando campaigns for Eagle Up Stables, London Reid Thoroughbreds, and Non Stop Stable.

Let’s Go Lando has the pedigree to be a nice horse. A gelded son of Breeders’ Cup Juvenile hero Game Winner, Let’s Go Lando is a half-brother to multiple stakes-winner It’s Hammertime and stakes-winner Shackled Love. Their dam, Steady N Love, by Not For Love, was a stakes-winning miler and a half-sister to four stakes-winners.

When asked whether he was worried about the wet track, Capuano also noted Let’s Go Lando’s pedigree.

"That whole family loves the mud,” he said.

Let's Go Lando made his first three starts sprinting on dirt without success, then finished seventh of eight in a two-turn turf test at Delaware on August 30.

“After I ran him on the turf, I gelded him, and he's been more mature and has really come around,” Capuano said. “We thought a lot of him early on. We thought he'd come around.”

In his first race as a gelding, Let’s Go Lando finished second to stablemate Wild Warrior in a one-mile maiden special weight race at Delaware on October 18. Two weeks later, Let’s Go Lando graduated by 8 ¼ lengths in a state-sired maiden special weight race over 1 1/16 miles at Laurel Park.

Let’s Go Lando completed his juvenile campaign with a third-place finish in a first-level allowance race at 1 1/16 miles on December 14.

“He’s been wanting to stretch out,” Capuano said. “Just a steady kind of horse. I was hoping to go two turns, but this one-mile race came up. He's been training really well lately.”

As for the 17-year-old phenom Hazlewood, a finalist for the 2025 Eclipse Award for Outstanding Apprentice Jockey, he won at least two races at Laurel Park over the past five days of racing. His other winner on the Saturday card came aboard Spotted Bull ($12) in the fifth race.

*Momaxie remains unbeaten

Trainer Jose Corrales tends to race his inexperienced horses into shape.

His numbers are strong among second- and third-time starters, but heading into Momaxie’s debut on December 19, Corrales-trained debuters were 1 for the last 66.

Thus, when Momaxie blasted to the lead in that $40,000 maiden claimer and held on to win by 4 1/4 lengths, it was a notable moment.

Momaxie proved that race was no fluke by rallying from off the pace to win today’s eighth race, a $49,000 first-level allowance for 3-year-old fillies over one mile.

"This filly, she's good. She's professional," said winning jockey Andres Chavez after Momaxie overcame several hurdles. She faced winners for the first time, was stretched from six furlongs to one mile, raced on a sloppy track, and had to win from off the pace. “She’s classy.”

Tipmanee, also trained by Corrales, showed good speed from the rail post. She set fractions of 24.00, 48.71, and 1:16.19 while being lightly pushed by Honor Our Country.

Momaxie, meanwhile, eased in from the far outside post and raced between horses in the second flight. Chavez gave his mount a second-quarter breather before splitting horses three wide turning into the long stretch. Momaxie seemed green on her lead changes but ran past the leaders to a 5 ½-length victory in 1:42.89.

Miss Fulton Gal rallied for second, half a length ahead of Honor Our Country. It was a long way back to the rest. Noble Status scratched.

Momaxie returned $14.40 as the fourth choice in the wagering.

“[Corrales] told me [there were other speeds in the race] and to wait behind horses because of the longer distance,” said Chavez, who also won the fourth race aboard the Tim Keefe-trained Pencil Me In ($5).

Corrales also won two races on the program. His Barbados Bulldog ($5) was a popular winner in the third race, ridden by jockey Matilda Burnham.

*Around the track:

Trainer Anthony Farrior swept the late daily double. In My Memories ($26.40) prompted and pounced to take the ninth race under jockey J.G. Torrealba. Take Charge Candy ($8.40) drew away to capture the finale under jockey Jevian Toledo.

Live racing resumes Friday with a 10-race card. First post time is 12 pm ET, and there are two “Value Pick 5” wagers, each with a low 12% takeout.

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