Thursday, October 25 2012

ELEVEN SPRINTERS ENTERED IN FRANK. J. DE FRANCIS MEMORIAL DASH

LAUREL, MD. 10-24-12---Eleven sprinters have been entered in Saturday’s 21st running of the $350,000 Frank J. De Francis Memorial Dash at Laurel Park. Post time for the 11-race card will be 12:35 p.m. Eastern. The De Francis Dash is the 10th race on the program with a post time of 5:14 p.m. The first 4,000 fans in attendance receive a complimentary Laurel Park sports cap.

The Fall Festival of Racing card also features five $150,000 stakes races on the turf: the Laurel Futurity for 2-year-olds, the Selima Stakes for 2-year-old fillies, the 6-furlong Laurel Dash, the Lady Baltimore Stakes for fillies and mares and the 1-1/2 mile Laurel Turf Cup. The six stakes races on the program garnered 82 entries.