PRESS RELEASE - January 21, 2021
For the second straight year, a Breeders’ Cup victory has propelled a horse to be named The Top Midlantic-bred of the year.
Hello Beautiful kicked off her 4-year-old season by collecting her third consecutive stakes win in dominating fashion as the favorite in Laurel Park’s $100,000 What a Summer Stakes, one of six stakes on the track’s Saturday, Jan. 16 Winter Carnival Program.
Street Lute, the top 2-year-old filly in Maryland in 2020, returned just three weeks after closing out an impressive juvenile campaign to score by five lengths in the $100,000 Xtra Heat Stakes at Laurel Park on Saturday, Jan. 16.
A high-priced juvenile who didn’t make her first start until 3, Gale has been progressing nicely for owners Bridlewood Farm, Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners and Robert V. LaPenta and New York-based trainer Jonathan Thomas. Finding the Laurel Park surface to her liking, the 4-year-old filly got her third win at the track, and first in a stakes, when driving home to take the $75,000 Geisha for Maryland-bred and/or -sired fillies and mares on Saturday, Jan. 16.
Tattooed certainly started his 6-year-old year off on the right foot as he made his way through traffic after being last of nine and closed down the stretch to secure his first stakes win in the $75,000 Jennings for Maryland-bred and/or -sired older runners on Saturday, Jan. 16 at Laurel Park.
Ballykiss, a 10-year-old daughter of Street Boss in foal to Constitution, topped the Maryland-bred offerings at the Keeneland January Horses of All Ages sale held Jan. 11-14 in Lexington, Ky.
Shamrock Farm’s freshman sire Barbados got his first winner as the 2020 calendar came to a close when his 2-year-old daughter Insightful led at every call in a five and a half-furlong maiden race at Tampa Bay Downs on Dec. 30.
Michael Dubb’s Pete’s Play Call kicked off the new year victoriously as he captured the $100,000 Gravesend Stakes by two and a half lengths on Saturday, Jan. 2 at Aqueduct.
MCA Racing Stable’s Harpers First Ride closed out 2020 with his fourth stakes win in his last five starts when taking the $100,000 Native Dancer Stakes as part of Laurel Park’s Christmastide Day Program on Saturday, Dec. 26.
Lucky 7 Stables’ Street Lute signed off on her 2-year-old season with her fourth stakes win in the $100,000 Gin Talking Stakes at Laurel Park on Saturday, Dec. 26.
Whereshetoldmetogo scored his second consecutive stakes win in the $100,000 Dave’s Friend Stakes, beating Taco Supream by three-quarters of a length Saturday, Dec. 26 at Laurel Park.
A chestnut filly by Candy Ride (Arg) headlined the Maryland-bred contingent at this year’s Fasig-Tipton Saratoga selected yearling sale, held at the Humphrey S. Finney sales pavilion on Aug. 8-9 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. She sold for $600,000 to Patrick Lawley-Wakelin, agent, for Robert “Shel” Evans.
Read more ...Simply Super became the first Maryland-bred member of the class of 2020 to win a stakes when on Tuesday, Aug. 9, he captured the $150,000 Hickory Tree at Colonial Downs by a half-length.
Read more ...Anchor & Hope Farm stallion Holy Boss was represented by his first stakes winner on Saturday, Aug. 6, at Laurel Park, when Vance Scholars captured the Bald Eagle Derby by two and a half lengths.
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