Karamanos closing in on 2,000 wins
Jockey Horacio Karamanos, who won three races on the Preakness card last Saturday, had 1,992 career victories as of Wednesday.
Karamanos, a 43-year-old native of Argentina, is having an excellent year, with 62 wins from 268 mounts, a win average of 23 percent. Karamanos is Linda Rice’s first-call rider in Maryland, and the pair has gone 38 for 82 this year, an amazing 46 percent win average.
Last Saturday, Karamanos won an optional-claiming race for Rice, a starter allowance for Mary Eppler, and the Chick Lang Stakes on Recruiting Ready for Horacio De Paz.
◗ Eppler, who won a race each day over Preakness weekend, said she is pointing her stable star, Page McKenney, to the $200,000 Mountainview Stakes at Penn National on the Grade 2 Penn Mile undercard June 3. The Mountainview is a 1 1/8-mile race for 3-year-olds and up.