Candip won the Fabulous Strike last night at Penn National — one of three stakes on the night in which favorites were defeated.
Jockey Trevor McCarthy won five times at Parx Racing yesterday — for five different trainers, with none of the winners shorter than 7-2 odds.
The horse industry in Maryland accounts for over 9,100 jobs and more than $1 billion in business sales, a new study from Sage Policy Group asserts.
Trainer Cal Lynch’s horses filled out the exacta in Saturday’s James Lewis Stakes at Laurel Park, with El Areeb delivering a breathtaking victory. “Scary good,” Lynch calls him.
I Need You won Charles Town’s West Virginia Futurity, while Rockin Jo Jo scored in Laurel’s Geisha Stakes.
Trainer Tom Howard’s month couldn’t have started any worse — but it ended up in smiles with a De Francis Dash win today at Laurel Park.
Saturday’s De Francis Dash day card might be the best Laurel Park card in years. How good? We say 29 percent better than last year’s.
More than three dozen Facebook commenters were nearly unanimous: California Chrome deserves Horse of the Year honors.
In an upbeat meeting today, the Maryland Racing Commission signed off on the Maryland Jockey Club’s request to run at least 162 days of live racing in 2017.
Make it three wins in four tries in Charles Town’s My Sister Pearl Stakes for Red Hot Diva, who won the event again Saturday evening.