Racing News

Millionaire Field Pass Tops 24 Nominees to $75,000 Find Aug. 19

$75,000 All Brandy Draws 26 Including Can the Queen, Coconut Cake
Summer Meet Resumes with Live Nine-Race Card Friday, Aug. 11

LAUREL, MD – Three Diamonds Farm’s multiple graded-stakes winning millionaire Field Pass, looking for his first win since last summer, and fellow stakes winners Sky’s Not Falling and Wicked Prankster are among 24 horses nominated for the $75,000 Find to be run Saturday, Aug. 19 at Laurel Park.

MJC Fall Champions Handicapping Tournament Aug. 19

Prize Money, NHC, BCBC & PWCBC Berths Up for Grabs
Registration Deadlines Aug. 16 by Mail, Aug. 18 in Person/Phone

LAUREL, MD – The Maryland Jockey Club will host the fall session of its bi-annual Champions Handicapping Tournament Saturday, Aug. 19 in the second-floor clubhouse sports bar at Laurel Park.

Bald Eagle Derby Attracts 33 Nominations

G3-Placed Really Good, Battle of Normandy Among Names
28 Nominated to $100,000 Searching for 3-Year-Old Fillies

LAUREL, MD – Paradise Farms, David Staudacher and Jason Ash’s Really Good, come-from-behind winner of last month’s Kent, fellow graded-stakes placed Battle of Normandy and stakes winners Ari Gold and Scoobie Quando top 33 horses nominated to the $100,000 Bald Eagle Derby to be run Sunday, Aug. 13 at Laurel Park.

Lightening Larry ‘Doing Fine’ Following De Francis Dash Win

Marks Third Straight Stakes Victory for G3 Winner, Sixth Overall
Cynergy’s Star Takes Sunday Feature, Live Racing Returns Aug. 3

LAUREL, MD – Lea Farms’ Lightening Larry, who ran his stakes win streak to three with a half-length victory over fellow Grade 3 winner Wondrwherecraigis in the $150,000 Frank J. De Francis Memorial Dash Saturday at Laurel Park, returned to Monmouth Park where trainer Jorge Delgado reported Sunday he is ‘doing fine.’

Lightening Larry Strikes in $150,000 Frank J. De Francis Dash

4YO Colt Registers Third Straight Stakes Victory, 2nd in Maryland
Fellow G3 Winner Wondrwherecraigis Second for 3rd Straight Year

LAUREL, MD – Lea Farms’ Lightening Larry stalked Wondrwherecraigis from the gate and came with a steady run through the stretch to reel in his fellow Grade 3 winner inside the sixteenth pole and capture Saturday’s $150,000 Frank J. De Francis Memorial Dash by a half-length at Laurel Park.

Be Better Proves Best in $100,000 Deputed Testamony

Beguine Goes the Distance in Alma North

LAUREL, MD – Repole Stable’s Be Better, a homebred son of champion Uncle Mo, extended his win streak to three races by passing multiple stakes winners Nimitz Class and Ournationonparade in deep stretch and going on to a 1 ¼-length triumph in Saturday’s $100,000 Deputed Testamony at Laurel Park.

Super Accelerate ‘Tough as Nails’ in $75,000 Star de Naskra

Talk to the Judge Rules in $75,000 Miss Disco Victory

LAUREL, MD – Steven Walfish’s Super Accelerate, stepping up to stakes company for the first time, got a patient trip from jockey Horacio Karamanos and dug in late to fend off a pair of challengers for a popular half-length victory in Saturday’s $75,000 Star de Naskra at Laurel Park.

Bargain Sir Wellington Taking Aim at De Francis Dash

$55K Purchase Chasing Third Career Stakes Win Saturday
Among Five Stakes Worth $500,000 in Purses on 10-Race Card

LAUREL, MD – For Mike and Vicki McGowan of Xtreme Racing Stables, their multiple stakes winner Sir Wellington has been a pleasant surprise. He fetched a mere $55,000 during Fasig-Tipton’s 2020 Midlantic 2-year-olds in training sale at the Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium, a year before the owners made Xtreme Gem a $625,000 session topper at the same post-Preakness Stakes (G1) auction.

Nimitz Class Ships to Laurel for $100,000 Deputed Testamony

De Francis Dash Program Features Five Stakes Worth $500,000

LAUREL, MD – Thomas Coulter’s multiple stakes winner Nimitz Class, who lost for the first time in six races in his graded debut last month, embarks on starting a new streak when he returns to Maryland for Saturday’s $100,000 Deputed Testamony at Laurel Park.

It’s Viper Looking to Strike in $75,000 Star de Naskra

Malibu Moonshine Set to Make Return in $75,000 Miss Disco
De Francis Dash Program Features Five Stakes Worth $500,000

LAUREL, MD – The Elkstone Group’s homebred It’s Viper, in for a $30,000 tag for his graduation last fall, faces eight rivals as looks to make the rise to stakes winner in Saturday’s $75,000 Star de Naskra at Laurel Park.