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10
Mar
  • Kid Cruz
  • Laurel Park
  • Linda Rice
  • Maryland horse racing
  • Private Terms S.
  • Steven Brandt

Fashionably late Kid Cruz providing owner “greatest gift of all”

  • Frank Vespe / 11 years
  • 0
  • 5 min read

Kid Cruz blew past his rivals in Saturday’s Private Terms. Owner Steven Brandt’s first stakes win left him elated — and thinking of the future, and the past.

11
Feb
  • Alan Foreman
  • Bruce Quade
  • Ferris Allen
  • Jason Egan
  • Linda Gaudet
  • Maryland horse racing
  • Mike Hopkins

Maryland racing community adapting to new medication rules

  • Frank Vespe / 12 years
  • 2
  • 9 min read

The Maryland Racing Commission has adopted new medication rules and tapped a new lab. So far, horsemen say, it’s gone smoother than expected.

31
Jan
  • Chi Chi's Pride
  • Ferris Allen
  • Laurel Park
  • Maryland horse racing
  • Trevor McCarthy

Trevor McCarthy’s wild ride

  • Frank Vespe / 12 years
  • 0
  • 4 min read

How did Trevor McCarthy manage to lose his irons and still win? “Just hang on, I guess,” he said.

09
Jan
  • Bobby Zen
  • Dan Tordjman
  • Laurie Asseo
  • Lynn Horvath
  • Michael Horvath
  • mid-Atlantic horse racing
  • Nick Hahn
  • Richard Hackerman
  • Ted Black
  • Teresa Genaro

Resolved

  • Frank Vespe / 12 years
  • 3
  • 5 min read

We asked our correspondents for their racing resolutions for 2014. The best advice: When all else fails, bet the gray.

18
Dec
  • Bobby Lillis
  • Bruce Quade
  • David Hayden
  • Dr. Sean Plaisance
  • John Franzone
  • Maryland horse racing
  • Maryland Jockey Club
  • Maryland Racing Commission

At the Maryland Racing Commission, fighting, then “linking arms”

  • Frank Vespe / 12 years
  • 1
  • 3 min read

For all the sparring at yesterday’s Maryland Racing Commission meeting, what was most interesting wasn’t who was fighting. It was who wasn’t fighting

17
Dec
  • David Richardson
  • Dr. Jay Baldwin
  • Dr. Sean Plaisance
  • John Franzone
  • Maryland horse racing
  • Maryland Racing Commission
  • Maryland Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association
  • Mike Hopkins

Maryland Racing Commission takes steps on medication rules

  • Frank Vespe / 12 years
  • 0
  • 3 min read

New Maryland Racing Commission drug rules slated to take effect on January 1 came into sharper focus today — but there’s still work to do.

17
Dec
  • Bruce Quade
  • Charles Tildon
  • John Franzone
  • John McDaniel
  • Louis Ulman
  • Mary Louise Preis
  • Maryland horse racing
  • Maryland Jockey Injury Compensation Fund
  • Richard Hoffberger

Maryland Racing Commission votes for “full, open” jockey insurance bidding

  • Frank Vespe / 12 years
  • 0
  • 4 min read

The Maryland Racing Commission today voted to subject its workers’ compensation policy for jockeys to a full and open procurement process handled by the state.

06
Nov
  • Breeders' Cup
  • Claiborne Farm
  • Florida Derby
  • Horse Racing Nation
  • Jim Rome
  • Kentucky Derby
  • McKinsey and Company
  • Mizdirection
  • Orb
  • Oxbow
  • The Jockey Club
  • Verrazano
  • Wise Dan
  • Zenyatta

Retirement of Orb and other stars points to industry’s misaligned incentives

  • Frank Vespe / 12 years
  • 1
  • 5 min read

Orb, Oxbow, and Verrazano — three of racing’s biggest stars this year — are all now retired. That’s because of a business model with misaligned incentives.

09
May

Orb’s “Maryland story” a tale of validation

  • Frank Vespe / 12 years
  • 7
  • 8 min read

“I couldn’t stand up. I had to sit down,” said Mike Pons after Orb’s Kentucky Derby win. To understand why, you have to start at the beginning.

08
May

Maryland Thoroughbred Hall of Fame Inductees: Cigar and Elkridge

  • Frank Vespe / 12 years
  • 0
  • 3 min read

Cigar and Elkridge are this evening’s featured inductees into the Maryland Thoroughbred Hall of Fame.

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