Racing News

Barbadian Runner Upsets Post Time in Milton P. Higgins III Maryland Million Classic

10/11/2025

Yedsit Hazlewood wins four races; Jevian Toledo becomes the winningest Jim McKay Maryland Million jockey
All-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 program, presented by Brown Advisory.

Slam Notion Stalks and Pounces in Fair Hill Training Center Maryland Million Sprint

10/11/2025

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 3-year-olds and upward racing six furlongs at Laurel Park.

Big Cuddle Overcomes Big Trouble in Fasig-Tipton Maryland Million Nursery

10/11/2025

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.

Toledo Makes History in 1/ST BET Maryland Million Turf Sprint

10/11/2025

Coringa captures John Deere Maryland Million Turf in gate-to-wire style
Worth 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 1/ST BET Maryland Million Turf Sprint.

Consistent Change My World Breaks Through in Friday Feature

10/10/2025

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 race, a first-level allowance for 3-year-olds and upward at three-quarters of a mile, Change My World hit the board seven times without getting into the winner’s circle.

Post Time Looms Large in $150,000 Milton P. Higgins III Maryland Million Classic

10/09/2025

“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.

A Day with John E. Williamson III

10/08/2025

From Pony Rides to the Maryland Million

By Mackenzie Pfeiffer

Lady Ensign Wires Them in Sunday Feature

10/05/2025

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 first-level allowance for fillies and mares at 5 1/2 furlongs on the Kelso Turf Course.

Sun Above Overcomes Slow Start to Capture Debut

10/04/2025

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 of the day following Regalo Perfetto’s gate-to-wire gambit in the opener.

Hark Theangelssing Earns Wings

10/03/2025

Hold Out strikes on turf for Boyce and Stettinius

LAUREL, MD—“She’s a little sassy, a little opinionated, like her mama,” assistant trainer Tana Aubrey said of Hark Theangelssing after the Mendelssohn filly rallied down the center of the track to win Friday’s co-featured sixth race at Laurel Park, a first-level allowance for juvenile fillies at 5 ½ furlongs on turf. "She's pretty professional in the morning. You just got to watch her when she bucks. She left her rider at the gap one day.”