Two Neolithic maiden-breakers send him past $2 million

First-time winners at Laurel and Charles Town vaulted Neolithic over the $2 million mark in career progeny earnings over the weekend.

LAUREL – New Rome, a 3-year-old filly making her fourth start for owners/breeders Michael and Suzanne Masters, went wire-to-wire under Jean Briceno in a 5 1/2-furlong race over the turf course, and her clocking of 1:02.77 was just two seconds off the course record. She won by half a length, paid $6.40 and earned a check for $21,600, boosting her total to $37,960.

CHARLES TOWN – Voice of Now became winner No. 15 for Neolithic with another wire-to-wire performance under Andre Ramgeet. The 4-year-old gelding bred by Elizabeth LaPierre and Jennifer Given, an $11,000 OBS June 2-year-old, won by nearly three lengths, and it was another 8 1/4 back to the third-place finisher. Voice of Now paid $6.60 after getting 6 1/2 furlongs in 1:21.11, and the winner’s check of $11,100 raised her sire’s career progeny earnings to $2,012,258.