In our year-end jockey and trainer rankings for Parx Racing, Mychel Sanchez and Guadalupe Preciado get the nod.
Trainers Jorge Navarro and Jason Servis were the biggest names among 27 indicted Monday on federal charges that they illegally doped racehorses.
In a small but competitive field for the G3 Fritchie, the Mike Stidham-trained Saguaro Row will hope to overcome local fave Anna’s Bandit.
Parx-based Blue Eyed Girl made her first trip to Laurel Park a winning one. Her second will come in the Grade 3 Barbara Fritchie Feburary 15.
January claiming activity in the mid-Atlantic was up 40 percent versus the prior year, aided by an additional track being open.
Claiming activity in the mid-Atlantic was down 15 percent in 2016 versus the prior year after an essentially flat December.
Claiming activity in the mid-Atlantic was sluggish in November and as a result the year-to-date trails 2015 levels by 20 percent, according to our Claimbox report.
Despite a solid October, Mid-Atlantic claiming activity to date this year is 18 percent behind 2015 levels, according to our Claimbox report.
Mid-Atlantic claiming activity through the end of August 2016 is about 20 percent behind 2015 levels, according to our Claimbox report.
Claiming activity in the mid-Atlantic was flat on a month-over-month basis but 2016 to date lags well behind 2015, in our Claimbox report.