
Timonium meet kicks off
The Timonium state fair racing meet kicked off today with small dips in handle and attendance.

The Timonium state fair racing meet kicked off today with small dips in handle and attendance.

Our weekly On Tap feature highlights the weekend’s best races from around the mid-Atlantic.

The Maryland Racing Commission will delay implementation of a rule allowing claims to be voided. It will not be in effect for the Timonium meet — and may not be ready for the start of the Laurel fall meet.

For Maryland-based trainers, the short stand at Timonium, which begins on Friday, is more than just another race meet. It’s a homecoming of sorts, and a new beginning.

The number of horses claimed in the mid-Atlantic region rose, while the gross and average values fell, according to our new Claimbox report.

Rider Kristina McManigell, injured in a spill at Delaware Park on Monday, reportedly is “coming around nicely.”
Colonial Downs owner Jeffrey Jacobs has withdrawn a complicated proposal to sell the racetrack to a company, MTR Gaming, that he would then control.

Racing returns to Maryland for the first time in nearly three months, when Timonium kicks off its 10-day meet on Friday, August 23.

Delaware Park will race through October 9, the extra day added to compensate for last week’s weather-related lost day.

Jeff Coady, now stricken with cancer, has turned the humble art of taking win photos into a record of Colonial’s racing history, and the timeline of a life.
The connection between horses and humans makes the racing world go ’round, and today’s Midweek Movie explores that connection, between an exercise rider and a first-time starter.

Paynter went from Grade 1 star to the brink of death. His journey back to the mountaintop began at Fair Hill.
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