Hello Beautiful, Wendell Fong Score Winter Carnival Victories At Laurel Sponsored by:
Wendell Fong is up in time in the $100,000 Fire Plug to give Natalia Lynch her first training victory
Madaket Stables, Albert Frassetto, Mark Parkinson, K-Mac Stables and Magic City Stables Hello Beautiful picked up where she left off in 2020 while punching her ticket for a return to graded-stakes competition with a front-running victory in Saturday s $100,000 What a Summer at Laurel Park in Maryland.
The 35th running of the What a Summer for fillies and mares 4 and older and the 25th edition of the Fire Plug for 4-year-olds and up, both sprinting six furlongs, were among six stakes worth $550,000 in purses on a Winter Carnival program that opened Maryland s 2021 stakes calendar.
Lynch Hoping There Is A Wendell Fong Laurel Park Stakes Win In Her Future Sponsored by:
Trainer Natalia Lynch
Still seeking her first career win as a trainer, Maryland s own Natalia Lynch couldn t imagine a better horse getting it done in a better place than Gold Square s Wendell Fong in Saturday s $100,000 Fire Plug at Laurel Park in Maryland.
Lynch, 26, has a long association with Wendell Fong going back to when she was working as an assistant to trainer Jeremiah Englehart, overseeing his Laurel string. Lynch helped prepare the now 5-year-old son of Flat Out for his debut, which he won in the final month of 2018, as well as his lone stakes victory in the 2019 Gold Fever at Belmont Park.