Forest Boyce was all smiles after guiding To Dare to victory today at Laurel Park, Boyce’s third win of the afternoon. Photo by Jim McCue, Maryland Jockey Club.
It was a good day for jockey Forest Boyce, who finished the Laurel summer meet with a flourish.
Boyce won three consecutive races mid-card, bringing her weekend total to six winners and running her tally to 19 wins from 98 starters for the summer stand. That places her third among the track’s colony, behind only Victor Carrasco with 25 wins and Jevian Toledo with 20.
In the day’s third race, Boyce guided McArthur Parkway to a half-length win at odds of 7.60-1, rallying from well back in eighth to post the allowance score.
One race later, she split foes at the quarter pole with 2.70-1 Unspoken, tipped wide, and rallied to defeat favored Twin Lights in a conditioned claiming turf sprint.
Finally, in the fifth race, she piloted favored To Dare to a dominant victory in a maiden special weight test on the main track.
The last two races were good news for trainer Tom Morley, who sent both of them out. The New York-based trainer sent out only two runners at Laurel during the summer stand and took home the money with both…
Jevian Toledo won two races today to maintain his hold on second place in the jockey standings. He took Brother Mark home in the first for trainer Claudio Gonzalez and Prospector’s Heart in the seventh for Jamie Ness…
Elsewhere, Laurel-based trainer Kieron Magee won with his first Saratoga starter of the year when Jack O Liam registered a dead-game, front-running score in a $32,000 claimer. It was Jack O Liam’s fourth win of 2015, third since Magee claimed the three-year-old son of Lookin at Lucky out of his maiden score. Jack O Liam was claimed from the race…
