He may have started on the outside but Winning the Medal finished fast up the inside to win a blanket finish over three rivals in the $100,000 Marshall Jenney Handicap at Parx Racing on Saturday. The Jenney was the last of five stakes for statebreds on the Pennsylvania’s Day at the Races card. The Saturday Read more »
Day: 2016-09-06
Diamond Dollar heads one-two finish for Potts in Mark McDermott Stakes
Trainer Ron Potts finished one-two in Sunday night’s $100,000 Mark McDermott Stakes for Pennsylvania-bred 2-year-olds when the filly Diamond Dollar ran down pacesetter Sixers City in deep stretch. It was the second straight year Potts and owner The Elkstone Group have won the six-furlong McDermott at Presque Isle Downs. “One went and the other one Read more »
Lucy N Ethel Remains Unbeaten With Prioress Win
J A G Racing and Jettany Thoroughbred Corp.’s homebred Lucy N Ethel, unraced since January of this year, was the frontrunning winner of Sunday’s Grade 2 Prioress Stakes at Saratoga. Defeating a field of nine other sophomore fillies, the daughter of During led from the start and refused to relinquish her advantage, crossing under the Read more »
Awesome Slew Dazzles in G3 Smarty Jones
Parx Racing capped off its Labor Day weekend with a terrific Monday afternoon program that featured four stakes including three of its major stakes of the year. Topping the card were the G3 $300,000 Smarty Jones Stakes at one mile and one-sixteenth for three year-olds, the G3 $300,000 Turf Monster Handicap, a five furlong turf Read more »