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Racing this week will be Saturday-Sunday only with no racing Christmas Eve or Christmas Day (Thursday-Friday) … Saturday’s spectacular 9-race card is one of the richest in Maryland history with $850,000 in stakes purses, including the rescheduled Grade 3 Allaire du Pont from Preakness Week. The marquee entrants among the 8 stakes include Pimlico Special winner Harpers First Ride, 3-time 2020 juvenile filly stakes winner Street Lute and Aqueduct’s Fall Highweight winner Share the Ride … A $9,551 Rainbow 6 carryover awaits horseplayers this week.

Stronach 5

No Stronach 5 this week with Christmas Day falling on a Friday. The wager returns next Friday, January 1.

1/ST BET Top Factors Last Week:

Horseplayers using the 1/ST BET app saw the most success with these 3 of the 52 handicapping filters for Laurel, each posting at least 39% winners and a flat-best profit. For the third straight week, Speed factors swept the top 3.

Best Speed Distance
Best Speed Last 3
Avg Best 2 of last 3 Speed

Trends Last Week

-- Trainer Jerry Robb sizzled at 9: 5-2-0. He was 4: 3-1-0 with favorites and 7: 5-2-0 with runners at 7-2 or less. Robb won 3 races Dec. 19. Xavier Perez rode 4 of the Robb winners, Carol Cedeno the other.

-- Trainer Anthony Farrior continued his hot ways with an 8: 3-1-3 week that saw a $2.05 ROI for every $1 bet. Winners paid a solid $8, $10 and $14. Farrior was 4: 2-1-1 with Jevian Toledo aboard his charges.

-- The Samuel Davis barn made the most with limited chances, going 2: 1-0-1. Significant here was the $36 win price and the 30-1 odds on the third-place finisher. Davis had been 0-28 at Laurel since mid-March prior to the sudden success.

-- Jockey Jevian Toledo was on point at 11: 5-1-2, posting a $1.89 ROI for every $1 bet. His 5 wins came for 4 different barns, doubling down with Anthony Farrior. 4 of the 5 wins came in sprints.

-- Jockey Xavier Perez, right-hand man of trainer Jerry Robb, went 10: 4-2-0 with 8 of those mounts for his top barn. All 4 wins were aboard Robb trainees, topping out at a $9 return.

-- Favorites were 13-for-27 in a chalky week at Laurel with 46% wins and 79% in the exacta. They went 8: 5-2-0 in maiden claimers.