All quiet in Pennsylvania once again, as Penn National canceled its Thursday evening card. The central PA track has run just once in February, on the first of the month…
Two riders — Grant Whitacre at Charles Town and Trevor McCarthy at Laurel Park — won back-to-back races yesterday. Whitacre took Charles Town’s fifth, a maiden special weight, aboard Crossing (4.20-1) for trainer Dane Kobiskie and then took the sixth aboard favored Political Pupil (2.20-1), also for Kobiskie. McCarthy, meanwhile, took Laurel’s third, a maiden special weight, on Kiaran McLaughlin-trained Woelf Den (2.30-1) and its fourth, a maiden claimer, on No Wonder At All (4-1) for trainer Mike Trombetta…
For McCarthy, it was his fifth consecutive multi-win day. He now has 32 wins during the Laurel winter meet, six more than Victor Carrasco…
Dane Kobiskie was the only trainer regionally to win two yesterday, with Whitacre aboard both at Charles Town…
It took Chasing Bridget 17 tries to get it right, but she finally did it in style. The five year-old daughter of Johar, trained by Leslie Frost for Kanny Ng and ridden by Matt McGowan, obliterated a Charles Town field of nickel maidens, winning by more than 16 lengths at odds of 2-5. She now owns a record of 17-1-1-2…
Perilous Indian posted a 9.20-1 upset of a third-level allowance field at Laurel yesterday, improving his record to four wins from 19 career starts. Under Julian Pimentel, the Richard Small trainee bided his time off the speed, swung outside nearing the lane and proved best. Favored Souper Knight, who’d beaten second level allowance foes in his last, closed from the back to earn the place…
