G1 winner Ring Weekend and defending champ Blacktype will try to take down the newly renamed Baltimore/Washington International Turf Cup at Laurel Park.
Part 3 of 4 of our 2016 in review, in which we take a sometimes happy, sometimes sad, and most often bemused look at the year that was in the mid-Atlantic.
On Commonwealth Day Saturday at Laurel Park, plenty of big names came to town — but some local jockeys and trainers more than held their own.
Blacktype set a course record in blazing to a win in the Grade 2 Commonwealth Turf Cup.
Jockey Joe Bravo won both of the graded turf stakes on the Haskell undercard at Monmouth, both times aboard the favorite.