Jockey JG Torrealba won three times Sunday to put the exclamation point on his torrid end-of-meet run.

He will end up trailing Jaime Rodriguez for leading rider honors at the meet, but from November 1 through the end of the meet, Torrealba’s 31 wins are seven more than any other rider in the colony. His mounts have earned more than $1.7 million.

Torrealba’s three Sunday winners included B West ($5.00) for trainer Kieron Magee, Stop the Cap ($6.00) for Hamilton Smith, and Factor It In ($6.80) for Carlos Mancilla…

The last of those three wins came in what was supposed to be the day’s featured contest, a $63,000 open allowance for three-year-olds and up. But three scratches – including that of likely favorite Spikezone, already in possession of 11 wins this year – left a field of just three.

Factor It In pressed the pace of On the Mark before overhauling that rival in upper stretch to win by two…

It was a gray and dreary day to end the meet, and to end the era of Stronach Group control of the Maryland tracks, an era which began in 2002. While the Stronach Group retains ownership of Laurel Park – and maintains control of the Preakness – day-to-day racing will be in the hands of a new nonprofit Maryland Jockey Club starting Jan. 1.

Daily handle averaged about $2.04 million during the just-concluded meet. That was about 20% below the daily average recorded during the same meet last year. It followed a Laurel summer meet in which the daily average lagged last year’s by about 16%…

Speaking torrid, trainer Brittany Russell, while winless on Sunday, was en fuego throughout the meet, winning with 54 of 149 starters (36%). That was 25 wins more than Jamie Ness, the runner-up.

Russell’s runners earned nearly $2 million at the meet, also by far the leading number.

Russell sent out impressive juvenile One Man Team to dominate Saturday’s Heft Stakes at Laurel. That winner gave her six stakes wins on the meet, as her high-end barn won seemingly just about everything it entered…

Caprice won Saturday’s other stake, the Gin Talking, and that Cal Lynch trainee finished the meet three-for-three with $180,000 in earnings. The earnings number was the highest of any horse on the grounds, a bit ahead of two-time meet stakes winner Celtic Contender.

Her three wins were tied for the meet lead with five others: Celtic Contender, Anonymously, B West, Pistol Liz Ablazen, and Skip Thru Da Fire. Her six wins this year tied for the North American lead among juveniles…

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