Sharing’s win in the 2019 Selima catapulted her to a Breeders’ Cup win, and now her trainer Graham Motion returns with two for Saturday’s Selima.
Sharing, today named Top Midlantic-bred of 2019, was stamped for success right from the start, as the daughter of two Breeders’ Cup winners.
Sharing – who won Laurel’s Selima Stakes – and Four Wheel Drive, winner of the Rosie’s Stakes at Colonial Downs, turned in banner Breeders’ Cup Friday wins.
Sharing, a Graham Motion-trained juvenile filly impressed in the Selima and may be Breeders’ Cup-bound, and stablemate Irish Mias took the Laurel Futurity.
With a bigger purse and longer distance, Laurel’s Selima Stakes may be poised to become more prominent, and trainer Phil Schoenthal’s one who welcomes it.
Several turf stakes on the De Francis Dash undercard went to longshots, but favorite Hello Don Julio held serve in the Laurel Turf Cup.
Last year jock Steve Hamilton was wandering the racing wilderness. With today’s Selima win on Wise Gal, he has first call on two of Maryland’s best young fillies.
Three Laurel Park undercard stakes were won by horses making their first tries in stakes company, one with a rider winning her first-ever stake.
More than 200 horses were nominated to six Laurel Park stakes on the track’s opening Saturday, September 10.
Formal Summation and Ruby Notion took Saturday’s Laurel Futurity and Selima, respectively. For both, the wins may be stepping stones to bigger things.