Louis A. Bisso Jr.’s Nick Papagiorgio was more than ready this time around, firing away down the stretch under Horacio Karamanos and outlasting a surge of late challenges to win the $75,000 Find Stakes, for Maryland-bred/sired, 3 & up, by a half-length at Laurel Park on Sunday, June 19.
Wasabi Ventures Stables’ Why Not Tonight answered the question decisively in her stakes debut as she ran down leader Can the Queen to win the $75,000 All Brandy Stakes, for Maryland-bred/sired fillies and mares, 3 & up, by a half-length on Sunday, June 19 at Laurel Park.
The Maryland Horse Breeders Association membership has selected one incumbent, one returning and three new members to the 2022 Board of Directors. Dictated by MHBA bylaws, the annually held election fills five open seats on the board. Those elected will serve for the next three years. Returning to the board are Michael Horning, current secretary-treasurer of the MHBA who was first elected in 2019, and Kent A. Murray, the MHBA secretary-treasurer from 2018 to 2020 who had served six consecutive years from 2015 to 2020 and was back on the ballot this year. Joining the board for the first time are Amy Burk, Grace Merryman and Gina Robb.
Jonathan Thomas, trainer of the versatile Grade 1 winner Catholic Boy, will judge the 88th annual Maryland Horse Breeders Association Yearling Show. Open to all yearlings eligible for Maryland-bred registration, the show will be held Sunday, July 24 at the Maryland State Fairgrounds’ Horse Show Ring in Timonium. Entries are due by June 24.
Fasig-Tipton’s Midlantic Two-Year-Olds in Training sale, which saw records fall across the board, featured a strong group of Maryland-breds, with four selling for six figures over the two-day sale held Monday and Tuesday, May 23 and 24, in Timonium. A $450,000 bay filly by Nyquist, purchased by Oracle Bloodstock, agent, was the highest-selling Maryland-bred of the sale.
West Point Thoroughbreds and Marvin Delfiner’s Jaxon Traveler came out swinging in his return to Pimlico on Preakness Day, securing his first graded stakes victory in the $150,000 Maryland Sprint Stakes-G3 on Saturday, May 21.
Joanne Shankle’s Can the Queen notched one for the home team on Black-Eyed Susan Day with a front-running score in the five-furlong The Very One Stakes, for fillies and mares, 3 & up, on Friday, May 20 at Pimlico.
The Elkstone Group’s homebred Joe made every stride count in the $100,000 James W. Murphy for 3-year-olds, as he slugged it out with favorite Ready to Purrform down the stretch and won by a neck on Preakness Day at Pimlico, Saturday, May 21.
Bonita Farm stallion Alliance got his first stakes winner in his first crop when his 3-year-old son Math Man Marco won the $75,000 Coin Collector Stakes for West Virginia-breds gate-to-wire on Saturday, May 14 at Charles Town.
Madaket Stables LLC, Wonder Stables, Tony Weintraub and Brandon M. Dalinka’s Miss J McKay picked up her first win of the season at Belmont Park with an impressive stretch run in the $100,000 License Fee Stakes, for fillies and mares, 4 & up, on Sunday, May 1.
After a series of solid performances in the maiden and allowance ranks, Holwood Stable’s Road to Oz became a stakes winner on Saturday, April 23, taking the 119th running of the $30,000 Grand National, the second leg of the Maryland Timber Triple in Butler.
Sprint veteran Jaxon Traveler rekindled his best form on Tuesday, Nov. 28, when he won the Zia Park Sprint Stakes by five and a half lengths in near track record time.
Read more ...Hillwood Stable LLC’s Post Time had to work a little bit harder than normal, but prevailed in the City of Laurel Stakes at Laurel Park on Saturday, Nov. 25, for his first open stakes victory.
Read more ...Maryland Million Sprint champion Seven’s Eleven validated his form and added another stakes win to his resume on Friday, Nov. 24, when he dominated the Howard and Sondra Bender Memorial Stakes for Maryland-bred or Maryland-sired sprinters at Laurel Park.
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