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Laurel Park To Open 2022 With 17 Stakes Worth $1.9 Million

Highlighted by the annual mid-February renewals of the historic General George (G3) and Barbara Fritchie (G3), Laurel Park will launch the new calendar year with 17 stakes worth a total of $1.9 million in purses through the first three months of 2022.

Stakes action begins Saturday, Jan. 22 with six stakes worth $550,000 in purses topped by the $100,000 Spectacular Bid sprinting seven furlongs, kicking off the Maryland Jockey Club's series for 3-year-olds. Sophomore fillies will travel six furlongs in the $100,000 Xtra Heat.

Also on the Jan. 22 schedule are the $100,000 Fire Plug for 4-year-olds and up and $100,000 What a Summer for fillies and mares 4 and older, both going six furlongs, and a pair of one-mile stakes for Maryland-bred/sired horses, the $75,000 Jennings for 4-year-olds and up and $75,000 Geisha for females 4 and older.

Laurel will host its Winter Carnival Saturday, Feb. 19 with six stakes worth $900,000 in purses led by the 46th running of the $250,000 General George for 4-year-olds and up and 70th edition of the $250,000 Barbara Fritchie for fillies and mares 4 and older, both sprinting seven furlongs.

Winter Carnival will also see Maryland's series for 3-year-olds continue with the $100,000 Miracle Wood going one mile. Three other $100,000 stakes are scheduled – the seven-furlong Wide Country for 3-year-old fillies, and the John B. Campbell for 4-year-olds and up and Nellie Morse for females 4 and older, both at 1 1/16 miles.

Sophomores will stretch out to 1 1/16 miles for the $100,000 Private Terms to highlight a Saturday, March 19 program of five stakes worth $450,000 in purses. It will be joined by the $100,000 Beyond the Wire for 3-year-old fillies and $100,000 Harrison E. Johnson for 4-year-olds and up, both going one mile, and two $75,000 sprints for Maryland-bred/sired horses – the six-furlong Not For Love for 4-year-olds and up and seven-furlong Conniver for older females.

Laurel Park is currently in the midst of its fall meet, which began Sept. 9 and runs through Dec. 31. The MJC has added a special program Monday, Dec. 27 to the live racing calendar.

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Gulfstream Adds Four Stakes Over New Tapeta Course To Fall Meet Schedule

Four stakes on the newly-installed Tapeta course will be featured during Gulfstream Park's Fall Meet, scheduled to get under way Thursday, Sept. 30 and run through Nov. 21.

The $60,000 Journeyman Stud Juvenile, a mile-and-70-yard race for Florida-bred 2-year-olds, will be the first stakes to be run over the all-weather Tapeta course an Oct. 23 program that will also feature the $60,000 Khozan Juvenile Fillies Sprint, a seven-furlong sprint for Florida-bred 2-year-old fillies on the main track.

The $60,000 Brethren Juvenile Fillies, a mile-and-70-yard race on Tapeta for Florida-bred 2-year-old fillies, is scheduled to be renewed a week later on an Oct. 30 program that will also offer the $60,000 Ocala Stud Juvenile Sprint, a seven-furlong stakes for Florida-bred 2-year-olds on dirt.

The $65,000 Cellars Shiraz, a mile-and-70-yard event on Tapeta for 3-year-old fillies, is scheduled for Nov. 5 and the $65,000 Showing Up, a mile-and-70-yard race on Tapeta for 3-year-olds, is slated for Nov. 6.

The Journeyman Stud Juvenile, Brethren Juvenile Fillies, Cellars Shiraz and Showing Up were all contested on turf last season during the final Gulfstream Park West Meet.

The first official race on the Tapeta track is scheduled for Sept. 23, when Gulfstream Park will make history, becoming the only racetrack in the Americas with the ability to conduct races on turf, dirt and Tapeta surfaces.

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Kentucky Downs Boosts Non-Stakes Purses By Eight Percent

Kentucky Downs will have an eight-percent purse increase in its non-stakes races from what was announced previously in the early September meet's condition book.

Maiden special-weight races for Kentucky-breds will now offer a purse of $135,000; first-level allowance race $145,800 and second-level allowance races $156,600. The increase applies to every non-stakes race at the meet except the four starter-allowance races carrying $100,000 purses as qualifiers for the Claiming Crown later this year at Gulfstream Park.

The country's most celebrated turf meet runs Sept. 5, 6, 8, 9, 11 and 12 over America's only European-style course. Tickets for reserved seating and dining can be purchased at https://www.tickettailor.com/events/kentuckydowns/.

“Not everybody has stakes horses, and Kentucky Downs gives those owners an opportunity to run for as much money as some stakes offer,” said Ted Nicholson, Kentucky Downs' Vice President for Racing. “We know much of the money earned will be reinvested in the industry, starting at the horse auctions in Lexington that come right after our meet.

“Money attracts horses, and horses mean jobs. Every horse that comes to Kentucky Downs to race is a benefit to area businesses, including hotels and restaurants.”

The additional funds for overnight races are split evenly between association money, which can be used on any race and for which every horse competes, and purse supplements from the Kentucky Thoroughbred Development Fund (KTDF) for horses born in the state and sired by a Kentucky stallion. Such Kentucky-breds reflect the majority of horses racing.

The additional Kentucky-bred purse supplements were approved last week by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission's KTDF advisory committee.

Said KTDF committee chair and commission member Bill Landes: “Kentucky Downs' additional positive adjustment to their KTDF overnight purses is a symbol of their good stewardship of KTDF funds but also recognizes their dedication to making Kentucky the pre-eminent racing jurisdiction in America.”

Overall purses offered at the meet now are scheduled to total $15,259,400, which includes $10 million spread among 16 stakes races. The meet's overnight (maiden, allowance and claiming) races are scheduled to average $876,000 a day.

“But there's more to the owner's experience than purses,” Nicholson said. “We've got some surprises in store this meet for the owners who put on our show. We want Kentucky Downs to be a track that, win or lose, owners can't wait to return to run their horses.”

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Pimlico Schedules Mandatory Payout Of State-Record Rainbow 6 Carryover For July 4

A mandatory payout in the Rainbow 6, currently featuring a Maryland state record carryover jackpot, has been scheduled for Sunday's stakes-filled Independence Day holiday program at historic Pimlico Race Course.

Entering Friday's eight-race program that begins at 12:40 p.m., the jackpot stands at $1,351,928.63. The popular multi-race wager has gone unsolved for 25 consecutive racing days since being hit for a $23,346.70 payout May 7.

The Rainbow 6 jackpot is paid out only when there is a single unique ticket sold with all six winners. On days when there is no unique ticket, 60 percent of that day's pool goes back to those bettors holding tickets with the most winners while 40 percent is carried over to the jackpot pool.

However, on mandatory payout days the entire pool is paid out to the bettor or bettors with the most winners in the six-race sequence.

Introduced in Maryland April 2, 2015 on opening day of Pimlico's spring meet, the Rainbow 6 has far surpassed its previous state record carryover of $345,898.33 spanning 31 racing programs before being solved by one lucky bettor for a life-changing $399,545.94 payout April 15, 2018 at Laurel Park. The winning ticket was purchased through Maine off-track betting.

Friday's Rainbow 6 will span Races 3-8. The sequence opens with a waiver maiden claimer for 2-year-old fillies sprinting five furlongs on the main track, and includes two races scheduled for one mile over the turf course which drew a total of 28 entries.

Highlighting the Independence Day stakes are a pair of six-furlong springs – the $100,000 Concern for 3-year-olds featuring Mighty Mischief, winner of the May 15 Chick Lang (G3) at Pimlico, and $100,000 Lite the Fuse for 3-year-olds and up led by record-setting 2020 Chick Lang winner Yaupon. Both horses are trained by Hall of Famer Steve Asmussen.

Other stakes are the $100,000 Caesar's Wish for fillies and mares 3 and up going 1 1/16 miles and $75,000 Jameela for Maryland-bred/sired females 3 and older scheduled for five furlongs on the grass. The Lite the Fuse and Caesar's Wish are both part of the Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred Championship (MATCH) Series.

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