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.