Champion Witty Opens Season in $100,000 King T. Leatherbury
At 1h02, on April 18, 2024 • By LAUREL PARK
Witty, Maryland’s champion male turf horse of 2023 bred, owned and trained by Elizabeth Merryman, will go after his third grass stakes victory and sixth overall when he launches his 5-year-old campaign in Saturday’s $100,000 King T. Leatherbury at Laurel Park.
The fifth running of the 5 ½-furlong Leatherbury for 3-year-olds and up is among five stakes worth $550,000 in purses on the second of consecutive Spring Stakes Spectacular Saturdays at Laurel, and one of the first three scheduled for its world-class turf course, along with the $100,000 Henry S. Clark and $100,000 Dahlia, each at one mile.
Co-headlining the program are the $125,000 Federico Tesio, a ‘Win and In’ for Triple Crown-nominated 3-year-olds to the 149th Preakness (G1) May 18 at historic Pimlico Race Course, and the $125,000 Weber City Miss, which earns the winner an automatic berth to the 100th Black-Eyed Susan (G2) May 17 at Pimlico.
Post time for the first of 11 races is 12:25 p.m.
