This week’s On Tap features the two stakes from Laurel Park, and elsewhere, a trainer, two riders, and a horse nearing milestones.
Saturday’s Barbara Fritchie Handicap and Campbell Handicap at Laurel Park were thrilling races with exciting finishes. Our photographers were there.
Persistence was the word of Barbara Fritchie Handicap day, as horses — and jockeys — gave their all to take Laurel’s two stakes.
The bettors loved Managed Account, but Behemoth loves Laurel, and he overhauled the favorite in the last jumps to win today’s John B. Campbell Handicap.