Over the next couple of weeks, The Racing Biz will celebrate the holiday season by sharing a few of our (and your) favorite pictures, articles, and videos from 2013.  Our folks have been on the spot for many of the most important racing days of the mid-Atlantic season and have come up with compelling words and images to tell the tales they’ve heard and seen.  We hope you’ll enjoy them…

CHECKING OUT THE SCENE

Sometimes the images that grab you on the racetrack aren’t on the racetrack at all.  Sometimes, it’s something else altogether: a group of jockeys, the flowers around the winner’s circle, the horse identifier at work.  Photographer Vas caught many of these moments for The Racing Biz during the year, and here were some arresting moments.

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Jockeys head to a ceremony honoring Ramon Dominguez. Photo by Vas.

 

Horse through the paddock arch at Laurel.  Photo by Vas.

Horse through the paddock arch at Laurel. Photo by Vas.

Flowers, but not for the winner. Photo by Vas.

Flowers, but not for the winner. Photo by Vas.

Tattoo check.  Photo by Vas.

Tattoo check. Photo by Vas.

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