Drawing the outside nine post shouldn’t be a problem for the versatile Greatbullsoffire, the likely choice for Laurel Park’s $100,000 Maryland Juvenile Futurity Dec. 10. The seven-furlong race, along with the companion Maryland Juvenile Filly Championship Stakes are restricted to Maryland-bred/Maryland-sired horses.
Greatbullsoffire, owned by Kathleen Willier and trained by Hamilton Smith won Laurel’s Maryland Million Nursery Stakes in late October and was third as the 11-10 choice in the Christopher Elser Memorial Stakes last out at Parx.
“That’s a pretty nice young colt that beat us and we have to hook him again this time, so we’ll see what happen,” Smith said. “We have a nice colt, no doubt about it. He hasn’t run a bad race yet.”
The winner that day, O Dionysus, returns and will break from post 5. The son of Bodemeister , bred by Dark Hollow Farm, was a $190,000 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic fall yearling purchase by Peter Angelos’ Marathon Farms.
The Juvenile Filly Championship Stakes appears open with consideration pointing toward recent maiden winner Lucky in Malibu, Maryland Million Lassie Stakes winner Item, and Crabcakes, who wheels back quickly after a five-length score in her Dec. 3 debut at Penn National.
Also on the card is the $100,000 Willa On the Move Stakes at six furlongs for older fillies and mares. The headliner is Lady Sheila Stable’s grade III winner Hot City Girl.
Laurel Park, Saturday, December 10, 2016, Race 9Entries: Maryland Juvenile Futurity
PP Horse Jockey Wgt Trainer M/L 1 1Twin Valor (MD) Feargal Lynch 115 Linda L. Albert 15/1 2 2Bowsprit (MD) Malcolm Franklin 115 Sonja Aleksic 50/1 3 3Bonus Points (MD) Trevor McCarthy 120 Todd A. Pletcher 2/1 4 4Maryland's Best (MD) Horacio Karamanos 120 Javier Contreras 15/1 5 5O Dionysus (MD) Jevian Toledo 120 Gary Capuano 5/2 6 6Hatteras Bound (VA) Jose Montano 120 Phil Schoenthal 20/1 7 7In Arrears (MD) Forest Boyce 120 Wayne Potts 15/1 8 8Dancing With Maude (MD) Steve D. Hamilton 115 Timothy L. Keefe 6/1 9 9Greatbullsoffire (MD) Alex Cintron 120 Hamilton A. Smith 3/1
Laurel Park, Saturday, December 10, 2016, Race 6Entries: Maryland Juvenile Filly Championship S.
PP Horse Jockey Wgt Trainer M/L 1 1Happiest Ending (MD) Horacio Karamanos 119 T. Bernard Houghton 20/1 2 2Phantom Shot (MD) Feargal Lynch 119 Donald H. Barr 6/1 3 3Fear No Evil (MD) Jevian Toledo 114 Thomas Albertrani 6/1 4 4Small Batch (MD) Forest Boyce 114 Linda L. Albert 12/1 5 5Lucky in Malibu (MD) Kevin Gomez 119 Gary Capuano 7/2 6 6Item (PA) Tyler Conner 119 Rodrigo Madrigal, Sr. 10/1 7 7Crabcakes (MD) Angel R. Rodriguez 119 T. Bernard Houghton 3/1 8 8Old Line Gal (MD) Trevor McCarthy 119 John C. Servis 5/2
