LAUREL, Md. - Reformed claimer Call Another Play earned an automatic berth into the Black-Eyed Susan Stakes with a win Saturday at Laurel Park in the $125,000 Weber City Miss for 3-year-old fillies at 1 1/16 miles. Trained by Michael Trombetta for owner-breeder R. Larry Johnson, Call Another Play made her stakes debut in the Weber City Miss, made a sustained three-wide bid on the second turn, grabbed the lead from pacesetter Miss Harriett, then drew away to win by 3 1/2 lengths under jockey Jaime Rodriguez. Jeanne Marie was second, 1 1/4 lengths ahead of Miss Harriett. Grammy Girl finished fourth. Odds-on favorite Shimmering Allure never traveled well and was eased under the wire. Call Another Play completed the distance in 1:46.66 over the fast main track and paid $12.80 as the third choice. Band of Gold, Determined Driver and Aoife’s Magic scratched. A Maryland-bred filly by Audible, Call Another Play entered the Weber City Miss after taking a $40,000 claimer at Laurel on Feb. 16, and then winning by open lengths for the $62,500 claiming option on March 22. :: Get the Inside Track with the FREE DRF Morning Line Email Newsletter. Subscribe now.  “Early on, we liked her all along,” Trombetta said. “But then, for two or three races, she just wasn’t doing what we wanted. We found herself in a mile race, and she started to turn the corner. Since Jaime has been riding her too, they just seem to hit if off really well.” Trombetta said that he would discuss with Johnson before making a final decision regarding the Black-Eyed Susan. Call Another Play is a half-sister to stakes-placed turf sprinter Future Is Now and multiple stakes-placed turf performer Continentalcongres, has won four of nine starts, and has earned $208,625. *King T. Leatherbury The King was back at Laurel Park on Saturday. King T. Leatherbury, 91, presented the trophy for his $100,000 namesake race to the connections of the popular Witty, who rallied down the center of the track to take the 5 1/2-furlong event for 3-year-olds and up. Leatherbury, a Maryland legend who trained 6,508 winners for earnings of $64,693,537, knows a thing or two about handling turf sprinters. He conditioned Ben’s Cat to a record of 32 wins from 63 starts for earnings of $2,643,782 and sees some of Ben’s Cat in Witty. “He figured to win,” Leatherbury said of Witty. “This is what he wants, the same kind of race Ben’s Cat would win.” Witty, a half-brother to Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint winner Caravel, is a stakes winner on both dirt and turf, but some of his best races have come on the lawn. In the Leatherbury, he found his usual position near the back of the field as Brother Conway and filly Future Is Now dueled through an opening quarter of 21.85 seconds. Turning into the long stretch, the speedsters faltered, and Ben’s Cat rallied stoutly. He drifted in slightly nearing the wire, forcing third-place finisher Charging to check slightly, but a jockey’s objection by Charging’s rider was quickly disallowed. Witty was ridden by Jevian Toledo, who booted home four winners on Saturday’s card, and paid $5.20 as the betting favorite. Outlaw Kid rallied near the rail for second, a neck behind the winner. After Charging came Bump N Run, Future Is Now, Fore Harp, Fluid Situation, Brother Conway and Coffeewithchris. A 5-year-old gelding by Great Notion, Witty was foaled in Pennsylvania, and is a homebred owned by his trainer, Elizabeth Merryman. He has won 8 races from 21 starts for earnings of $505,260. *Dahlia In the paddock, a racegoer couldn’t miss Five Towns. She was very fractious, started to get washed out, and looked like the kind of filly visual handicappers immediately dismiss. On the racetrack, however, Five Towns was a consummate professional, rallying from off the pace under jockey Jorge Ruiz to win the $100,000 Dahlia Stakes for fillies and mares traveling a mile at Laurel Park. “I was a little surprised,” trainer Graham Motion said about Five Towns’s pre-race demeanor. “She is quite high-energy, I guess, but she didn’t behave like that in Florida.” The Dahlia pace scenario was hard to decipher on paper, and it was Precise Moment who grabbed the lead while prompted by Jubilee Bridge through fractions of 23.67 and 47,99 seconds. Meanwhile, Ruiz settled Five Towns at the back of the tight pack while in between horses. Favored Safeen made an outside bid to challenge the two pacesetters after six furlongs in 1:11.48, but Five Towns traveled sweetly while in and among rivals. All Ruiz needed was an opening, and it materialized in midstretch when Five Towns maneuvered to the far outside. Safeen got the jump, but Five Towns had the momentum, and Ruiz guided her under the wire 1 1/4 lengths in front. Safeen finished a half-length better than Jubilee Bridge. Present Moment and Brown Suga Babe completed the field. Olivia Maralda, Neecie Marie and Ravella scratched. Five Towns ran the mile in 1:35,48 over the firm turf and returned $6 to win as the second choice in the race. “I was a little anxious when Jorge took her back just because yesterday the turf played quite quick,” Motion said. “I’m impressed that she was able to get out and still win like she did. It looked like it was a lot to ask, but she did it pretty comfortably.” Foaled in Great Britain, Five Towns is a homebred owned by Merry Fox Stables. She made her first seven starts in England, winning an allowance race on the All-Weather at Kempton, and a handicap racing a mile on turf at Windsor. Motion ran Five Towns twice at Gulfstream Park this year. She won a first-level allowance on the Tapeta surface on March 23, her final start prior to the Dahlia. Motion trained Five Towns’s dam, the Merry Fox homebred Guilty Twelve, who scored the Grade 3 Robert G. Dick Memorial at Delaware Park in 2017. A 4-year-old filly by Lord Kanaloa, Five Towns hails from the female family of European champion Montjeu. Motion said he will strongly consider the Grade 3, $100,000 Gallorette Stakes at 1 1/16 miles at Pimlico on May 18 for Five Towns’s next start. *Henry S. Clark In a virtual carbon-copy of the Dahlia, Motion and Ruiz teamed up for Dataman’s victory in the $100,000 Henry S. Clark for 3-year-olds and upward at one mile on turf. Like Five Towns, Dataman settled in between horses, then found room on the outside in upper stretch before driving past the leaders. He completed the distance in 1:33.94 while 1 1/4 lengths better than uncoupled stablemate English Bee. Odds-on favorite Forever Souper finished third after being held up behind horses in upper stretch and forced to the far outside late in the game. Gray’s Fable, who controlled fractions of 24.39, 47.26, and 1:10.23 while pressured by English Bee, placed fourth. Eons broke through the gate prior to the start, raced wide, and had no punch while finishing last.   Dataman returned $13 as the fourth choice in the betting. Adero, Luigi’s Spirit, Heaven Street and Hay Chief scratched. “Jorge said he was pretty sharp down the backside, but he did a good job getting him to settle,” Motion said. “I wasn’t sure if he was going to get to English Bee, because English Bee has been running uncharacteristically [off-form]. You always wonder coming off a layoff if they’re going to relax and finish, and he did.” A 4-year-old gelding by Tapit, Dataman came to form during the second half of 2023. He took an off-turf first-level allowance at Delaware by 11 1/4 lengths on June 28, then grabbed Laurel’s Bald Eagle Derby at 1 3/16 miles on turf on Aug. 13. Dataman finished a creditable fifth in the Grade 3 Virginia Derby against next-out stakes winners Integration, Program Trading, and Runaway Storm, then capped off his 3-year-old season with a fourth-place effort in the off-turf Jockey Club Derby Invitational during the Belmont at the Big A meet. “I’m actually a little surprised, maybe because he’s sharp, but the mile I thought would be a little quick for him, but he handled it,” Motion admitted, “I always thought the longer distances were going to help him. A homebred foaled in Kentucky and owned by Wertheimer & Frere, Dataman is a half-brother to stakes-winners Alda and Serifos, and French Group 2 winner Alignement. He has 4 wins from 11 starts for lifetime earnings of $240,910. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? 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