Hybrid Eclipse, Recruiter, Twice As Sweet Secure Stakes Wins On Laurel’s Harvest Festival Card

Hybrid Eclipse won the $100,000 Thirty Eight Go Go Stakes at Laurel Park. It was the last of three stakes on Laurel's Harvest Festival program. The winner was Sheldon Russell's horse Hybrid Eclipse. She was scratched from the Nov. 4 Turnback the Alarm. She is now 4-for-5 lifetime at her home track. Other winners were Recruiter, Twice As Sweet and Champagne Toast. Grade 2-placed Beguine was also scratched. They were followed by Click to Confirm, Timonium Distaff winner Breviary, and Baby Man.

Hybrid Eclipse, Recruiter, Twice As Sweet secure Stakes wins on Laurel’s Harvest Festival Card. Recruiter won the James F. Lewis III. Jockey Angel Cruz won his fourth win from five mounts. He was a replacement for Laurel's fall meet leading rider, injured apprentice and friend Jeiron Barbosa. The James Lewis is named after the late longtime Maryland horseman and first president of Maryland Million Ltd. He bred and campaigned a number of prominent horses. His daughter Lisa is a multiple graded-stakes winning trainer based in New York and Florida.

Hybrid Eclipse, Recruiter, Twice As Sweet secure Stakes Wins On Laurel’s Harvest Festival Card. Twice as Sweet wins the Smart Halo by 6 lengths. Miss Georgie held off 24-1 long shot Gormley's Gabriela by a neck for second place. Dissolute, Shiny Slam and Bound by Destiny came in third. Chickieness was scratched. Smart Halleh was trained by Canadian Hall of Famer Jim Day. The horse won the first race on the inaugural Maryland Million Day program in 1986.