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.
With a case of equine herpesvirus at Belmont Park, the Maryland Jockey Club will forbid shippers from there until further notice.
For the second straight day, jockey Steve Hamilton and trainer Horacio DePaz teamed up for a maiden-breaking score, this time with Global Citizen.
Dictate Cool, a Sagamore homebred Curlin filly, won at first asking Saturday at Laurel Park.
Charles Town Races kicked off its 2018 with the Tri-State Stakes, and William and Mary started the new year just like he ended the old, with an easy win.
The Tri-State Futurity – delayed by a dearth of entries until today – kicks off Charles Town’s 2018 season with William and Mary the horse to beat.
Claiming activity in the mid-Atlantic region rose 6 percent in 2017, with the value of those claims topping $24 million, according to our Claimbox report.
Favorite Tale won for the first time since 2015, and Bishop’s Pond continued a late-career surface switch to score in Laurel Park stakes today.
Three Midlantic-breds — Unique Bella, Stellar Wind, and All the Way Jose — are finalists for Eclipse Awards, to be announced later this month.
In the face of what it called “extreme cold weather,” Laurel Park has canceled its Sunday, New Year’s Eve card.
