Saturday’s Laurel Park card included four stakes — and a handful of horses, including defending Turf and Classic champs, targeting Maryland Million day.
President Tim Keefe and the other newly chosen officers of the Maryland Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association (MTHA) promised a “new direction” for the group.
Hard-hitting Eighttofasttocatch will make his return to the races Saturday as Laurel Park’s fall meet kicks off.
Our RaceBrief racing notebook grabs some of yesterday’s highlights and looks ahead to the future.
Arnold Heft, who owned top Maryland-bred Eighttofasttocatch, has passed away at age 94.
Racetrack people have a long history of taking care of their own, and the holidays are no exception.
Two Maryland-breds — Eighttofasttocatch and Joint Custody — took open stakes on Saturday at Laurel, and the big winner may have been the Maryland-bred program itself.
On a day with a pair of juvenile stakes, veteran campaigner Eighttofasttocatch stole the show with his 10th career stake victory.
Eighttofasttocatch is favored to win the 10th stake of his career on Saturday at Laurel Park on a card which also includes a pair of juvenile races.
In our Regional Roundup, we highlight mid-Atlantic stories that haven’t yet made our pages.