Contrarity scored a 15-1 in Saturday’s Laurel Park opener, the first two-year-old race of 2017 in Maryland.
Playing the claiming game is a complicated balancing act, and each trainer seems to set the scales differently.
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.
In our year-end Claimbox report: Midlantic claiming activity off 12 percent, plus who’s claiming, which horses change hands most, and more.
Claiming activity jumped nearly 50 percent in May, in our Claimbox report.
Eddy Gourmet won today’s Conniver Stakes for Maryland-bred distaffers at Laurel Park, her third win in her last five starts.
The claiming statistics and leaders for the last quarter of 2014, in our Claimbox report.
Claiming activity rose for the third straight week, plus the region’s leaders, in our Claimbox report.
Claiming activity rose once again, plus the region’s leaders, in our Claimbox report.