Cancellations at Penn National and Charles Town left Laurel Park the only mid-Atlantic track to run yesterday…

Two wins yesterday for trainer Kieron Magee.  He struck in the second with Sir Travis (13.40-1) and again in the third with Miss Glengar (2.60-1).  Both races were nickel claimers…

Rider Xavier Perez finally broke the seal yesterday, posting his first Laurel Park win of 2014.  He piloted Easter Fashion (4.10-1) to an easy victory in the fifth, a $7,500 lifetime claimer, for trainer Ollie Figgins, III.  That duo, of course, had succeeded under brighter lights with Dance to Bristol, who in 2013 won seven consecutive races, three graded…

Jockey Trevor McCarthy won just once yesterday — the first time in four Laurel race days he was held to fewer than two wins.  He rode Lulu Had a Baby (4.80-1) to a very game win in an allowance/optional claimer for three year-olds in the sixth.  Lulu appeared to be done at the head of the lane and then again in mid-stretch before nipping Sonny Inspired at the line, and it was a long way back to the rest of the field…

Addison Run, a four year-old daughter of Unbridled’s Song out of Fleet and Fancy, by Touch Gold, notched her second straight win yesterday, taking a first-level allowance over favored Ek Haseena, who finished second in a first allowance for the third consecutive race.  Addison Road, now with a record of 4-2-0-1, kept pretty good company in her defeats, too, finishing behind My Place, a New York repeat winner, and Lady Sabelia, who won a stake in her next race…

Racing oddity: in the first race, a bottom maiden claimer, two horses were odds-on.  Impel (4-5) was slightly favored over Sea Lord (.90-1), but it was the latter who got the money, winning by seven over the former.  It was another seven back to the rest of the field.  Every other horse in the race went off at odds of at least 16.10-1…

The sloppy and sealed track played just as slow as could be yesterday.  The race won by Addison Run, for example, went in 1:13 3/5 seconds for six furlongs; that was the only race at that distance to go in less than 1:14.36.  Looks like the track played more than fair to outside horses…