Racing News

Still Having Fun, Alwaysmining Return in Bender Memorial

12/07/2019

Anna’s Bandit Goes for Sixth Straight Victory in $75,000 Politely
Prizes, Calendar Giveaway on Maryland Spectacular Day

LAUREL, MD – Still Having Fun and Alwaysmining, Maryland’s top Triple Crown race hopefuls the past two years who together have won eight stakes and more than $1 million in purses, are scheduled to meet for the first time as they launch their respective comebacks in Saturday’s $75,000 Howard and Sondra Bender Memorial at Laurel Park.

Monday Morning Qb Seeks Stakes Score in Maryland Futurity

12/06/2019

Juvenile Filly Championship Features Matchup of Stakes Winners
Prizes, Calendar Giveaway on Maryland Spectacular Day

LAUREL, MD – Cash is King and LC Racing’s Monday Morning Qb looks to come up big Saturday afternoon as he takes the step up to stakes company for the first time off an impressive maiden triumph in the $100,000 Maryland Juvenile Futurity at Laurel Park.

Friday Stronach 5 Returns $1,935

12/06/2019

LAUREL, MD – There were 60 winning tickets in Friday’s Stronach 5 with each ticket returning $1,935.80.

The Stronach 5, featuring an industry-low 12-percent takeout, featured races from Gulfstream Park, Laurel Park and Golden Gate Fields.

Honest Mischief Wins $100,000 Force the Pass City of Laurel

11/30/2019

Needs Supervision Rolls in $100,000 Imagining Safely Kept

LAUREL, MD – Juddmonte Farms Inc. Grade 2-placed homebred Honest Mischief, blocked in traffic at the head of the stretch, found room late to run down leader Chilly in Charge and earn his first career stakes victory in Saturday’s $100,000 Force the Pass City of Laurel at Laurel Park.

Sunny Ridge Shines in $100,000 Richard W. Small

11/30/2019

Vault Becomes Stakes Winner in $100,000 Thirty Eight Go Go

LAUREL, MD – Dennis A. Drazin’s multiple Grade 3-winning millionaire Sunny Ridge got a ground-saving trip under jockey Trevor McCarthy and split horse in deep stretch to capture the $100,000 Richard W. Small Stakes by three-quarters of a length Saturday at Laurel Park.

Lots of Winners in Friday's Stronach 5

11/29/2019

LAUREL, MD – There were 108 winning tickets in Friday’s Stronach 5, with each winner receiving $824.90.

Once again, the Stronach 5, featuring races from Laurel Park, Golden Gate Fields and Gulfstream Park as well as an industry-low 12-percent takeout, paid generously when considering the highest payoff was $10.20 and Taste’s Legend, the winner of the second leg from Golden Gate, returned $2.40.

Friday’s races and sequence

G2 Winner Still Having Fun Nominated to Return in $75,000 Bender Memorial

11/29/2019

Maryland Spectacular Day Program Dec. 7 Features Calendar, Gift Giveaways

LAUREL, MD – Gary Barber, Wachtel Stable and Terp Racing’s Grade 2 winner Still Having Fun and Runnymede Racing’s Alwaysmining, Maryland’s Triple Crown race contenders the past two years, are both nominated to end layoffs in the $75,000 Howard & Sondra Bender Memorial Saturday, Dec. 7 at Laurel Park.

Fort McHenry Ready for a Battle in Saturday's Smooth Air

11/28/2019

Complexifier to Do What He Does Best in Buffalo Man
Juvenile Showcase Kicks Off Gulfstream Stakes Schedule

HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Expectations for Fort McHenry were obviously high when Derrick Smith, Mrs. John Magnier and Michael Tabor bought the son of Tapit for $1.1 million at the 2018 Keeneland September sale.

THIRD ANNUAL RMTC HALTER AUCTION FOR TACTICAL RESEARCH PROGRAM STARTS MONDAY, DECEMBER 2

11/28/2019

Beginning at 1 p.m. ET on December 2 and running for one week, the Racing Medication and Testing Consortium (RMTC), an industry 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, will auction off halters of history-making racehorses, stallions and broodmares on its eBay page.

All proceeds from this auction go to the RMTC’s Tactical Research Program, which funds studies focused on the identification and detection of illicit substances impacting racing integrity and safety.

Bonus Points Looks to Recapture Form in $100,000 Richard W. Small

11/27/2019

Stablemates Provide Strength in Numbers in $100,000 Thirty Eight Go Go

LAUREL, MD – Three Chimneys Farm’s Bonus Points has run some of the best of his 26 career races over the main track at Laurel Park, winning two stakes and placing in three others. Now 5, he returns to his favorite surface Saturday looking to recapture that form in the $100,000 Richard W. Small Stakes.