Davyjonz shrugs off layoff to graduate
No Monkeeing around: Davyjonz surged between horses to break his maiden first off a long layoff Sunday at Laurel Park.
No Monkeeing around: Davyjonz surged between horses to break his maiden first off a long layoff Sunday at Laurel Park.
It took Super Accelerate six tries to break his maiden, but the Maryland-bred will enter Friday’s Hilton Memorial at Charles Town on a 3-race heater.
Some tracks canceled Saturday, but the show went on at Laurel Park, and trainers and riders told us how they beat the heat.
In two stakes for Maryland-breds Saturday at Laurel Park, Robin Graham and Marya Montoya, who had combined for just eight wins this year, came up big.
Though a Grade 3, the Pimlico Special’s gaudy history makes it a major race, and several local trainers are set to try their luck.
Saturday’s Laurel Park card also features two route stakes for older horses, the Nellie Morse and John B. Campbell. Our previews in quick hits.
The Maryland Racing Commission Thursday announced a delay in implementation of its “house rules” to provide more time for public input.
Part 1 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.
Robin Graham, a longtime fixture on the Laurel Park backside, will send two runners postward in Friday’s stakes races.
Lady Sabelia, the speedy mare who won the 2015 G2 Barbara Fritchie Handicap, suffered a fractured sesamoid Sunday morning and will be retired.