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Ness said Repo Rocks should appreciate added ground with a good result in the Stymie potentially setting up bigger races down the road.

Millionaire C Z Rocket and fellow graded stakes winners Double Crown, Repo Rocks and Weyburn are among 36 accomplished older sprinters nominated to the $250,000 General George (G3) Saturday, Feb. 18 at Laurel Park.

Luis Rodriguez Castro will pursue his first graded stakes triumph as a jockey when guiding Drafted, who carries a co-field high 124 pounds, from post 3.

Undefeated stakes winners Post Time and Recruiter and Grade 3-placed Prove Right top 24 nominations to the $100,000 Spectacular Bid for newly turned 3-year-olds Saturday, Jan. 21 at Laurel Park.

Morgan Geer splits his time between Asheville and Portland, Oregon… plus all of the towns where he performs as Drunken Prayer. He returns to Studio B, this time having recently won the #38 spot in our Top 100 for his 2022 album “The Name of the Ghost is Home”! He’s also working on a gospel record in Mississippi with some of the Fat Possum / Drive By Truckers folks.

Atras said the added distance Saturday should benefit Law Professor after chasing rapid splits at the Breeders’ Cup.

Reid, Jr. said that while Ridin With Biden’s previous stakes scores in the Greenwood Cup and the Deputed Testamony in July at Laurel Park came in wire-to-wire fashion, his Turkey Trot victory showed he can be effective from off-the-pace as well.

Trainer Norman L. “Lynn” Cash won his first graded stakes in the Oct. 29 Kelso (G2), but a starter allowance horse has really put his fledgling stable on the map. 

Red Oak Stable and Madaket Stables’ multiple Grade 1 winner Mind Control will retire on top of his game after securing a trademark gutsy score in Saturday’s $750,000 Cigar Mile Handicap (G1) at Aqueduct Racetrack.

"He’s as healthy as can be. He’s up, he’s peppy and he’s a smaller horse who’s up and at it,” said Cash of Cigar Mile longshot Double Crown