New whip rules will prohibit New Jersey jockeys from using it for encouragement, which has baffled and angered riders, who say they were not consulted.
Veteran trainer jeff Runco is scheduled to send out 15 runners in the nine West Virginia Breeders Classics, with four of them the morning line favorite.
Nonna Madeline held off Royal Flag by a nose in a thrilling renewal of the Lady’s Secret Stakes Wednesday at Monmouth Park.
The fall stakes schedule at Laurel Park will feature nearly three dozen races with combined purses of more than $3.2 million, including the Maryland Million.
With the cancellation of the Colonial Downs race meet, five stakes for Virginia-bred or -sired horses will take place Friday at Laurel Park.
Horses bred in the Mid-Atlantic accounted for more than $5.5 million — about 60$ — of the total volume at the just-completed Fasig-Tipton yearling sale.
Gross sales at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic fall yearling sale, which concluded today, exceeded $9 million, with three hips going past $200,000.
In the early going of the second and final day of the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic fall yearling sale, two colts brought winning bids above $200,000.
It felt like no Preakness we’ve experienced, but If you weren’t moved by Saturday’s racing at Pimlico, then it’s fair to say you don’t like horse racing.
The first of two days of the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic fall yearling sale saw 122 horses sold for a grand total of nearly $3 million.
Off a thrilling win in the Preakness, Swiss Skydiver is movin’ on up in the latest NTRA Top Thoroughbred Poll for older horses.
Chelsea Lowman’s monthly pinhook diary continues, with PJ just one day away from selling at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic yearling sale.
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