Racing News

Connections Hoping B Determined Can ‘Find’ Winner’s Circle

6-Year-Old Chasing Second Stakes Win in 1 1/16-Mile Turf Event
MJC Champions Handicapping Tournament, Crab Fest Saturday
Sophomore Blame Colt High Value Graduates in Friday Debut

LAUREL, MD – Mint Meadows Farm and Donald Metzger’s B Determined, whose biggest win came on one of Maryland’s highest-profile days at the longest distance he’s ever run, will stretch out again in search of a second career stakes victory in Saturday’s $75,000 Find at Laurel Park.

Laurel Summer Meet Opens Final Weekend Friday

Double Carryovers on 9-Race Program Starting at 12:25
$1.5 Million Maiden Vinco Continues Quest for First Win
Turf Stakes, Handicapping Tournament, Crab Fest Saturday

LAUREL, MD – Laurel Park will bring the curtain down on its 33-day summer meet starting Friday with a nine-race program featuring a maiden special weight on dirt and an open allowance on turf for 3-year-olds and up.

First race post time is 12:25 p.m.

Coconut Cake Seeking Rebound in $75,000 All Brandy

First of Two Grass Stakes for Maryland-Breds Saturday

LAUREL, MD – N R S Stable, James Chambers and Avalon Farm’s 6-year-old mare Coconut Cake, exiting the furthest finish in her 11 grass starts, will get a chance to regain her form while seeking a third stakes victory in Saturday’s $75,000 All Brandy at Laurel Park.

Field Pass Getting Class Relief in Saturday’s $75,000 Find

Multiple GS Winning Millionaire Facing State-Breds for First Time

LAUREL, MD – There is little that Three Diamonds Farm’s multiple graded-stakes winning millionaire Field Pass hasn’t done over five seasons of racing, but the well-traveled 6-year-old veteran will be trying something new when he returns to Maryland for Saturday’s $75,000 Find at Laurel Park.

Dataman Delivers in $100,000 Bald Eagle

Bolivie in the Searching

LAUREL, MD – Wertheimer and Frere’s Dataman, a 3-year-old son of Tapit, drove past the pacesetting stakes winner Ari Gold down the stretch to win Sunday’s $100,000 Bald Eagle by three-quarters of a length over a firm 1 3/16-mile turf course.

Trained by Graham Motion and ridden by Jorge Ruiz, Dataman returned $26.80 while covering the distance in 1:54.72.

Two $100,000 Turf Stakes Headline Laurel Sunday Program

Irish G3 Winner Speirling Beag Tops Searching for 3YO Fillies
Mendelssohn’s March Takes Class Drop in Bald Eagle Derby
Summer Meet Leader Jaime Rodriguez Rides 3 Winners Saturday

LAUREL, MD – The penultimate weekend of Laurel Park’s summer meet will come to a thrilling end with a nine-race program Sunday featuring a pair of $100,000 stakes scheduled for its world-class turf course.

Circling the Drain Chasing Stakes Win in Bald Eagle Derby

Second of Two $100,000 Turf Stakes for 3YOs Sunday at Laurel
Jockey Russell Registers Friday Hat Trick; Triple Carryovers Saturday

LAUREL, MD – Sycamore Hall Thoroughbreds’ Circling the Drain, a homebred gelding that is stakes-placed on both turf and dirt, will face seven rivals seeking a breakthrough stakes victory in the $100,000 Bald Eagle Derby Sunday at Laurel Park.

Trainer Schultz Well Represented in Sunday’s $100,000 Searching

Laurel Park Summer Meet Resumes with Live Nine-Race Card Friday
Nominations Close Saturday for $75,000 Timonium Distaff Aug. 26

LAUREL, MD – When it comes to Sunday’s $100,000 Searching for 3-year-old fillies at Laurel Park, trainer Lindsay Schultz is taking no chances as she seeks the first open stakes victory of her young career.

Ari Gold Chasing Second Stakes Win in Bald Eagle Derby

1 3/16-Mile Stakes One of Two on Turf for 3-Year-Olds Sunday

LAUREL, MD – Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners’ Ari Gold, successful in his only prior stakes start, gets an opportunity to rediscover his winning ways when he returns to face similar company in the $100,000 Bald Eagle Derby Sunday, Aug. 13 at Laurel Park.

G3 Winner Speirling Beag ‘Searching’ for First U.S. Victory

$100,000 Event First of Two Scheduled Turf Stakes Sunday

LAUREL, MD – Walmac Farm, Gainesway Stable and Haras d’Etreham’s Speirling Beag, a Group 3 winner in her native Ireland, will make her second North American start looking for her first victory in Sunday’s $100,000 Searching at Laurel Park.

The 13th running of the 1 1/16-mile Searching for 3-year-old fillies is the first of two stakes scheduled for the grass on a nine-race program followed, by the $100,000 Bald Eagle Derby for 3-year-olds going 1 3/16 miles.