Music Amore fended off her rivals and drew away late to win Saturday’s Searching Stakes at Laurel Park to give rider Jeiron Barbosa his first stakes win.
Training titles at the just-completed Timonium meet went to Claudio Gonzalez and Gerald Brooks, while J. D. Acosta won his third straight riding crown.
Claiming activity jumped in March versus the prior month, but the quarter trailed 2015 by a significant margin, in our Claimbox report.
Claiming activity remained sluggish in February, plus trainer stats, in our Claimbox report.
Claiming activity fell 25 percent in January ’16 versus 2015, a victim of many fewer days run in the region, plus trainer stats, in our Claimbox report.