Awesome Banner tackled top sprinters until suddenly going off form two races back. Today in the Fire Plug at Laurel Park, he got his groove back.
Four months after Hurricane Maria ripped through Puerto Rico, Thoroughbreds at Camarero racetrack remain in dire straits.
With a case of equine herpesvirus at Belmont Park, the Maryland Jockey Club will forbid shippers from there until further notice.
Laurel Park is the lone Midlantic track among those announce today as eligible for play at the NTRA National Horseplayers Championship.
James A. Lages, a steward for the last two years in Delaware, has been named chief state steward by the state’s Thoroughbred Racing Commission.
The finalists in various Maryland-bred categories, as well as top trainer, jockey, and owner, were announced January 17, with awards given Feb. 12.
Angel At War, whose first start was against maiden claimers, makes her stake debut in the What A Summer at Laurel riding a six-race win streak.
Multiple graded winner Favorite Tale, who won last out for the first time since 2015, will try to double up in the Fire Plug at Laurel Park.
Delaware Park will race 81 days in 2018, with the meet opening May 30 and extending to October 20.
Neither trainer Gerald Coker, Jr. nor owner Gary Hemp has ever won a stake. But undefeated Ihearuknockin has given them reason to dream.
Applications from trainers for the Thoroughbred Makeover rose 38 percent for the 2018 edition, to 812 for the project for retired racehorses.
EquiLottery, a lottery game using horse racing results, is trying for the second straight year to get legislative approval to operate in West Virginia.
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