Churchill Downs and NYRA announced today a 3-year-old race series that excludes several important Mid-Atlantic races, including the Preakness.
Donald Barr, an outspoken but friendly New Englander who fashioned a lengthy training career in Maryland, has died. He was 85.
Burnham Square won his fourth consecutive race on turf, and first grassy Grade 1, in Saturday’s Arlington Million at Colonial Downs.
Trainer Graham Motion’s two red-hot distaffers Gimme a Nother (Beverly D.) and Roja (Andy Guest) gave the barn a Colonial Downs stakes double.
Magic Weisner, the Maryland-bred whose stunning run nearly stole the 2002 Preakness, has died at age 27, Old Friends Equine reported.
Trainer Graham Motion has won nearly three dozen Grade 1 races, but the Arlington Million has eluded him.. Test Score could change that.
Trainer Shug McGaughey will take aim at Saturday’s Arlington Million with defending champ Fort Washington and hard-hitting Integration.
A handufl in the paddock, Irish Maxima settled down on the track to deliver a solid score in Thursday’s Dashing Beauty at Delaware Park.
Longtime bloodstock agent Bill Reightler, who passed away Tuesday, is remembered as “an ambassador for the whioe Maryland racing indsutry.”
Baby Vino shot through along the rail to post a 28-1 upset in Saturday’s Grade 1 Haskell Stakes at Monmouth Park.