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unusual facts about Laurel Park Racecourse



Acting Happy

Fifty one weeks later she started as a five year-old at Laurel Park Racecourse in the Maryland Racing Media Stakes on February 11, 2012.

Hank Allen

After his baseball playing career, Hank Allen became involved as a trainer/owner in Thoroughbred horse racing, based at Laurel Park and Pimlico Race Courses in Maryland.

Laurel Pop Festival

The Laurel Pop Festival was a music festival held at the Laurel Race Course in Laurel, MD on July 11–12, 1969.

Little Bold John

He also won two $200,000 stakes in Maryland, including the grade two General George Handicap and the Maryland Million Classic, both at Laurel Park Racecourse.

Maurice Zilber

Maurice Zilber also regularly brought horses to North America to compete in major grass races such as the Canadian International Championship Stakes at Woodbine Racetrack in Canada and the Washington, D.C. International Stakes at Laurel Park Racecourse in the United States.

Mesabi Maiden

Some of those third place finishes came in graded stakes races, such as the grade two Monmouth Breeders' Cup Oaks in New Jersey where she finished behind Top Secret, the grade three Anne Arundel Stakes at Laurel Park Racecourse against Hey Let's Dance, and the grade three Astarita Stakes at Belmont Park, where she lost to Broad Dynamite.

The Very One

Her first stakes win came in 1978 when she won the Anne Arundel Handicap in 1978 at Laurel Park Racecourse.

What A Summer

In December 1976, What A Summer won the $50,000 Anne Arundel Stakes at Laurel Park Racecourse, beating Turn the Guns and Avum in 1:38.20 for the mile under McCarron.

Wide Country

After her retirement, Laurel Park Racecourse named a race in honor, the Wide Country Stakes which is open to fillies age three years-old and up willing to race seven furlongs on the dirt every March.


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