LRL: Promising Lonesome Road romp in the allowance
Frank Vesp- January 23, 2026
Mindframe’s little brother might be one to keep an eye on.
Lonesome Road, a 4-year-old Maclean’s Music gelding, made dizzying short work of a pretty salty group of allowance foes in Laurel Park’s $49,000 allowance feature on Friday and is now 2-for-2 since being neutered and switched to the dirt.
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Next stop? Well, there are certainly betting options in February at Laurel, and elsewhere, if coach Mike Trombetta chooses to go that direction.
Lonesome Road’s two wins on the main circuit are worth 8 ½ and today 6 ¼ lengths. Overall, he is 2-for-4 and has earned over $76,000.
“Kind of a repeat of the last race,” said Trombetta’s assistant Tana Aubrey. “He did it pretty easily on the back. His ears, when they go out to play, they run easily when they go out with their ears [pricked].”
Regular pilot Mychel Sanchez got Lonesome Road moving early and quickly rode to the front of the pack. Comeback Tony Eclipse, winner of the 2024 Maryland Juvenile but out since March of last year, quickly put Lonesome Road in trouble, but he didn’t think it was that hot after all.
Lonesome Road led that rival by a length and a half after half a mile in 47.28 seconds and did so with ease. Longshot Crab Daddy made a daring mid-run into second place after three quarters in 1:12.54.
Lonesome Road drifted up the three paths turning home and left its rivals overwhelmed in the course, expanding to the final margin in 1:37.72 for a one-turn mile. Crab Daddy finished second and was 6 ½ lengths ahead of Davyjonz in third. Tony Eclipse faded to fourth.
Lonesome Road paid $3.20 to win as a 3-5 betting choice. The exacta returned $14.90 for a one dollar bet.
Lonesome Road, bred by the late R. Larry Johnson and owned by his estate, had a few fairly unremarkable starts on the Colonial Downs turf this summer before being given three months off – and neutered.
“You know, he just wasn’t really paying attention,” Aubrey said. “We knew it was there. We knew he had the ability, but he wasn’t really focused.”
The gelding seems to have solved that problem. Now, given his bloodlines and performance in his last flock, everyone is eager to see what comes next.
Mom Walk of Stars, by Street Sense, was a stakes winner who broke her maiden with a Secretariat of 30 ¼ lengths at Timonium in 2014. Half-sister Hollywood Walk, by Animal Kingdom, was a stakes winner of more than $540,000. And of course, Mindframe has made over $2 million winning a few Class 1 races.
So whether it’s a stock company or a second-tier benefit, Lonesome Road looks like a potentially serious racehorse.
“He’s doing well. He’s going in the right direction,” Aubrey said. “It’s nice to win one.”
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