Trainer Hamilton Smith earned his 2,000th career win with — appropriately — a horse owned and bred by his brother and sired by his lone Derby runner.
Torch of Truth won a race at Laurel Park Friday, but it’s his other job – as Derby hopeful Independence Hall’s workmate – that’s more important.
Jockey Trevor McCarthy won five races Saturday at Laurel Park, three of them in stakes, to wrap up the meet riding title.
The Maryland Racing Commission on Thursday formalized its earlier approval of so-called house rules, adopting two pertaining to medication as regulations.
Under fire for equine fatalities, racing’s leadership is flailing for responses — while ignoring the almost-good story it could be telling.
New rules proposals in New Jersey and California that would limit whip use have spurred the Jockeys’ Guild to advance their own more “moderate” concept.
Tuesday’s Fasig-Tipton Midlantic mixed sale set records with a $450,000 purchase and more than $4 million in total sales. Here, we dig deeper.
With the addition of nearly 100 horses from the Joe Besecker dispersal, the Fasig-Tipton Mixed Sale shattered records Tuesday in Timonium.
Two horses that ran in Saturday’s Maryland Juvenile Futurity – winner Laddie Liam and fourth-place finisher Mine Not Mine – topped the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Mixed Sale.
While a small group of protesters gathered outside Laurel Park Saturday to condemn racing, horsemen had a message of their own.