#Laurel Futurity

This is "last call" weekend for Breeders' Cup hopefuls with more than a dozen "Win and You're In" races spread across three U.S. tracks. It's also Arc weekend in Paris and Winx seeks her 28th straight win in Australia. There's even more, with important 2-year-old races in Canada and the Group 1 Sun Chariot in England. Twenty-eight straight wins? It…

Gulfstream Park hosts competitive stakes action on Saturday, and the fourth race on the card is the Pulpit Stakes. This race is for horses aged two, and it will be staged over a distance of 7 ½ furlongs on the turf. A purse of $75000 has been made available for this race. This race has produced some standout horses in recent years, including 12…

The Breeders' Cup prep season begins to draw to a close beginning this weekend, with major domestic stakes at Aqueduct, Churchill Downs, and Santa Anita on Saturday. There's also significant racing on both Saturday and Sunday at Longchamp in Paris, site of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe (G1). The TwinSpires Jury of James Scully, Kellie Reilly, and…

Quotes and other information from a Maryland Jockey Club release Respect the Valleys, Karmac Stable and Designated Hitters Racing's Roan Burgundy is entered in Saturday's $150000 Laurel Futurity two weeks following a professional 1 ¾-length debut victory going six furlongs Sept. 16 on the main track at Pimlico Race Course. The Futurity, one of five…

OZONE PARK, N.Y.- Maram LLC's Kentucky homebred Dandy Handyman will make his stakes debut in Saturday's $120000 Awad at 1 1/16-miles over the inner turf for juveniles, at the Belmont at the Big A fall meet. The Awad is part of a stacked card that includes the Grade 2, $300000 Kelso, a one-turn mile for 3-year-olds and upward offering the top-four…

Trainer Michelle Nevin poses in the Aqueduct winner's circle after Dancing Buck and jockey Manuel Franco won the Belmont Turf Sprint. SUSIE RAISHER All of a sudden Michelle Nevin is sitting on a Breeders' Cup contender. Dancing Buck, which Nevin trains for J & N Stables (the 4-year-old gelding's breeder) and Diamond M Stable, scored a convincing…

Life Is Good, seen winning the Grade 1 Pegasus World Cup at Gulfstream Park in January, warms up for the Breeders' Cup Classic in Saturday's Grade I Woodward at Aqueduct. Photo courtesy of Katsumi Saito Sept. 30 (UPI) -- Seven Breeders' Cup "Win and You're In" races, from New York through Kentucky and on to California highlight the weekend U.S.…

LAUREL, Md. - Given his breeding, Yurie Pascarella, Carl Pascarella and Herringswell Racing Club II's Hendrickson arrived at the races this year with great expectations. A son of Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Nyquist and grandson of Belmont Stakes (G1) winner Birdstone, he is out of the stakes-winning mare Thank You Marylou, named in honor of Marylou…