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Several horses whose connections committed to the 2022 Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred Championships (MATCH Series) early on solidified their positions with strong performances as Laurel Park hosted stakes in all four series divisions July 16.
Proud of his horse’s effort no matter what, trainer Arnaud Delacour was able to celebrate a victory when Mark B. Grier’s Eons was promoted to his second straight stakes win following the disqualification of first-place finisher English Tavern in in Saturday’s $100,000 Prince George’s County at Laurel Park.
There’s A Chance Stable, Medallion Racing, Abbondanza Racing, LLC, Parkland Thoroughbreds, Paradise Farms Corp, and David Staudacher’s Horologist has been named 2021 New Jersey-bred Horse of the Year and champion older female by the Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association of New Jersey for the second consecutive year.
Chub Wagon (left) outfought Hello Beautiful to win the Shine Again. Photo by Jerry Dzierwinski. Frank Vespe July 8, 2021 While the Grade 2 Delaware Handicap and Grade 3 Robert G. Dick Memorial Stakes figure to draw most of the attention on Saturday afternoon’s Delaware Park card, the two undercard stakes also are worth a gander. The $100,000 Dashing Beauty, a six-furlong sprint for fillies and mares, will go as the fourth race, while the $50,000 Battery Park, a two-turn contest for three-year-olds and up, will go as race six. Those two sandwich the Dick Memorial. The Dashing Beauty features...
Yaupon, Mrs. Orb Take MATCH Races At Pimlico; Series Resumes July 31 Sponsored by: Yaupon and Mrs. Orb took their respective Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred Championships Series (MATCH) stakes July 4 at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Md., and the usually contentious 3-Year-Olds and Up Sprint—Dirt division is again shaping up as one to watch The two MATCH Series stakes joined two other stakes on an 11-race holiday program that generated $10.06 million in pari-mutuel handle that included a mandatory Pick 6 payout wager with a $5.1 million pool and a $1.43 million carryover. In the $100...