Jockey Rosario Montanez has had a long road back since a 2020 injury. He’ll reach the starting gate for the first time since on Jan. 30.
First-off-the-claim Shake Em Loose paid $120,80 to win the Heft Stakes at Laurel Park Sunday, one of two juvenile stakes on the day.
Clubman, a multiple stakes winner of $464,000, will make his first start since last October’s Pimlico Special Friday at Laurel Park.
Kenny Had a Notion, winner of consecutive restricted stakes, will look to make it a hat trick versus open company in Laurel’s James F. Lewis, III Stakes.
Two-year-old Lugamo made it two straight with a dominant score going a one-turn mile at Laurel Park Friday.
Second on debut, Lugamo, a Florida-bred Chitu colt, won easily at Laurel Park Friday to graduate from the maiden ranks.