Kids playing with stick horses may just have been the most important people at the track on Maryland Million day — for racing’s future, at least.
For the second straight year, Admirals War Chest posted a front-running score in this afternoon’s Maryland Million Classic.
Maryland Jockey Club president Sal Sinatra has one eye on the weather and another on the fields as he prepares for Saturday’s 31st Maryland Million.
In a deja vu moment, the Maryland Racing Commission today adopted drug penalties it thought it had enacted two years ago.
Four runners who won Maryland Million races in 2015 are pre-entered for Saturday’s big event, including the winners of the Classic, Turf, and Ladies.
Trainer James W. Casey registered his 1,000th career victory last night at Charles Town Races with the aptly named Coach Casey.
Slip the Cable dominated the WVBC Classic yesterday at Charles Town, on a night when the event set a handle record — and he wasn’t the only one to have a good night.
Horses bred in the mid-Atlantic accounted for 62 percent of yesterday’s Fasig-Tipton yearling sale’s total volume — and the top two sellers.
The average and gross sales both rose today at the Fasig-Tipton yearling sale, while the buyback rate declined.
Total mid-Atlantic handle rose in September versus the prior month, but the average daily handle fell.