There were more scratches than usual on the Sunday card at Laurel Park but the nine races will still average more than seven runners per race.
Barn 20 at the track was placed under a equine herpesvirus quarantine Friday evening after a horse tested positive for EVH1. The horse, English Tudor, never appeared to be ill and was training on a daily basis. He has been removed from the track and sent to a farm.
During the quarantine, horses from Barn 20, where trainers Tony Aguirre, John Salzman Jr., Katie Voss, and Linda Albert are stabled, will not be allowed to train or race. Aguirre recently took over the training of English Tudor.
On Sunday, Sal Sinatra, president of the Maryland Jockey Club, said there were no new cases of the disease.
For more information on the quarantine, click here.
A total of 81 runners, including coupled entries, were entered on the card, an average of nine per race. There are 16 scratches, bringing the number of starters down to 65, or 7.22 horses per race.
Jevian Toledo, the leading rider at the Laurel fall meet is off his mounts today after a morning training accident, according to his agent, Marty Leonard. Toledo is sore and having precautionary X-rays taken.