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09/12/2016

Laurel’s Opening Weekend a Success

Racing continued Sunday and was highlighted when jockey Trevor McCarthy guided Non Stop Stable’s Elusive Joni through an opening on the rail in mid-stretch and pulled away to win the featured ninth race at Laurel Park. The $45,000 optional claiming allowa

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09/12/2016

Recap of Dueling Grounds Derby and Oaks

Asked the secret, Maker said, “Having the money to claim them. It’s obviously a huge gamble. But no different than getting them out of the sale and you’re getting them for a little less.” The stakes double capped a huge weekend for jockey Florent Geroux,

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09/12/2016

Conquest Enforcer vanquishes field in Allied Forces

Piloted by Javier Castellano, Conquest Enforcer hit the wire in 1:07.76 in the six-furlong sprint on the inner turf. It was the fourth win in five starts for the son of Victory Gallop. "[There was an] inside horse with speed, so we were able to just sit o

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09/12/2016

New Era at Rosecroft Begins Tuesday

The sixth-race feature, a $12,000 pace featuring a field of seven, includes millionaire Feel Like A Fool, Diamondkeeper, Rock On Precious and Rock N’ Roll Jet. While Sal Sinatra, President and General Manager of the Maryland Jockey Club said he hopes to l

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09/11/2016

Onus Sets Course Record in $150,000 Lady Baltimore Win

Favored at 4-5 in a field of seven, Onus ($3.60) finished up in 1:39.87 to break the Fort Marcy Turf Course record of 1:40.33 set by Doryphar on Aug. 18, 2007. She is now 4-0 lifetime at Laurel, all with jockey Forest Boyce aboard. “She’s wonderful. She a

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09/11/2016

It’s Da Big Hoss again

Da Big Hoss stayed to the inside through the early running, setting well off the early fractions of :51.87 for a half-mile and 1:43.50 for a mile, set by 60-1 longshot Rum Tum Tugger. At the five-sixteenths pole, which comes up just before a sharp turn in

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09/11/2016

Seattle Slew Quotes

John Velazquez, winning jockey aboard Comfort (No. 1): "He broke good enough and I tried to keep it at close as I can. The dirt started hitting him and he started backing up, and I said 'this is no time to back up, you got to keep going forward.' I was fi

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09/06/2016

Del Mar’s 77th Summer Season Races to a Solid Finish

The track’s handle and attendance numbers were again the tops of any meet in California and – in a run that stretches back decades – among the top figures of any race meeting in America. Further, one of its key indicators -- field size – closed strongly t

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09/06/2016

Ring Weekend sets course record in winning G2 Bernard Baruch

It was the first win of the year for the 5-year-old Tapit gelding, who was second by a neck in the Grade 2 Dixie on May 21 at Pimlico before finishing sixth in the Grade 1 Fourstardave Handicap last out on August 20. Take the Stand set early fractions of

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09/06/2016

Practical Joke gets serious in G1 Hopeful

The seven-furlong Hopeful took a dramatic twist at the start, when 6-5 favorite Classic Empire appeared to veer out, losing jockey Irad Ortiz, Jr. and leaving Royal Copy and Pretty Boy Flash to duke it out on the lead through an opening quarter-mile in 23

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