Coming off a third-place finish in the Grade 1 Madison in April at Keeneland, Breeze Easy LLC’s Late Night Pow Wow returned to her typical dominant form, turning back a challenge in the stretch to win the $75,000 Twixt by 1 ¼ lengths Sunday at Laurel Park. The Twixt, a seven-furlong sprint for fillies and […]
Continue readingPantofel Stable, Wachtel Stable, and Peter Deutsch’s Spiced Perfection was a determined winner of Saturday’s G1 Madison Stakes at Keeneland, heading Amy’s Challenge in the lane and out-dueling her to the wire to win by a neck. The 4-year-old daughter of Smiling Tiger, ridden by the red-hot Javier Castellano for his third win on the […]
Continue readingBreeze Easy’s Late Night Pow Wow extended her win streak to nine races in dramatic fashion, turning away defending champion Ms Locust Point and holding off Grade 1 winner Spiced Perfection to win the $250,000 Barbara Fritchie (G3) by a head Saturday at Laurel Park. The 67th running of the Barbara Fritchie for fillies and […]
Continue readingIt took more than three decades for trainer Javier Contreras to become an overnight sensation. A regular on the Laurel Park backstretch in the early 2000s, the 60-year-old native of Mexico won more races and purse money in 2018 than in any single season of his career, now in its 35th year. Jockey Fredy Peltroche enjoyed […]
Continue readingBreeze Easy’s Grade 3 winner Late Night Pow Wow, her streak having grown to eight races since the only loss of her career 10 months ago, will face the toughest test yet in her return to graded-stakes competition for Saturday’s $250,000 Barbara Fritchie (G3) at Laurel Park. The 67th running of the Barbara Fritchie for fillies […]
Continue readingGrade 3 winner Late Night Pow Wow, riding an eight-race win streak, and defending champion Ms Locust Point are among 35 older fillies and mares nominated to the 67th running of the $250,000 Barbara Fritchie (G3) Saturday, Feb. 16 at Laurel Park. The Barbara Fritchie and the $250,000 General George (G3) for older horses, both […]
Continue readingBreeze Easy LLC’s Grade 3 winner Late Night Pow Wow earned a return trip to graded-stakes competition by galloping to her eighth consecutive victory in Saturday’s $100,000 What a Summer at Laurel Park. The 33rd running of the six-furlong What a Summer was the first of four $100,000 stakes on a nine-race program and led […]
Continue readingBreeze Easy LLC’s Late Night Pow Wow, racing for the first time outside her native West Virginia, swept to the lead on the far outside and outran fellow graded-stakes winner Ms Locust Point to the wire to capture the $100,000 Willa On the Move on a rainy Saturday at Laurel Park. The seventh running of […]
Continue readingWest Virginia-bred Late Night Pow Wow ran her record to seven wins from eight starts – all at Charles Town – on Saturday night, winning the $300,000, Grade 3 Charles Town Oaks by a neck under Fredy Peltroche for owner-trainer Javier Contreras. The win was the first in a graded stakes for both Peltroche and […]
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