Laki

After a disappointing career debut on the grass, Laki switched to the main track for his second start and won by five lengths in the slop at Laurel Park in December 2016.

Laki opened his 4-year-old campaign in 2017 with three straight victories, including a 1 ¾-length victory in the Not For Love Stakes at Laurel March 18. He subsequently ran second in an allowance race before an unplaced finish in his graded stakes debut in the Maryland Sprint Stakes.

Laki put together a nice 5-year-old campaign in 2018, winning three of nine. Starts while running second twice and third twice. He won the Polynesian Stakes and Howard and Sondra Bender Memorial Stakes and finished second in the Grade 3 Frank J. De Francis Memorial Dash.

In 2019, Laki’s lone win from seven starts was a 3 ½-length score in the Frank Whiteley Jr. Stakes April 20 at Laurel, however, he finished third in three stakes, including the Grade 3 General George Stakes.

Laki opened his 7-year-old season with a runaway 2 ½-length win in the Oceanport Centennial Stakes at Monmouth Park on July 3. After back-to-back runner-up finishes in allowance races, he finished second again in the Polynesian Stakes Sept. 5 at Laurel. He followed with a hard-fought, breakthrough victory over Eastern Bay and Nitrous in the Grade 3 Frank J. De Francis Memorial Dash on the Oct. 3 Preakness Stakes undercard at Pimlico to earn his first graded stakes triumph.