Trainers Dylan Smith and Niall Saville saddled their first stakes winners Saturday at Laurel Park, an achievement that left one breathless and the other chatty.
Laurel Park Director of racing Georganne Hale and her team are more than ready to get back to racing. It’s our Laurel fall meet preview.
A trifecta’s worth of musings: the Arlington Million and the Sword Dancer, tweeting horses, and medication reforms.
At Thursday’s Maryland Horse Forum, 400 people from the state’s equine industry gathered to share experiences, plan for the future, and discuss cocktails.
On Sunday, the New Jersey-bred Hall of Fame inducted two new members. Suitably inspired, a current NJ-bred, Rainbow Heir, won the Teddy Drone.
With Bayern’s Haskell win, all three winners of Breeders’ Cup Classic “Win and You’re In” races this year have been sired by stallions at Pin Oak Lane Farm in Pennsylvania.
All of the runners in Sunday’s G1 Haskell Invitational feel great, look great, love the track, and are in a great frame of mind. Seriously.
Retaining racing’s share of slots revenue is job one, but there are many other issues facing Maryland horsemen as they elect their association’s directors.
Her connections claimed Belle Gallantey to win winter races at Aqueduct. They had no clue that a few months later, they’d win the Grade 1 Delaware Handicap.
Yesterday’s 80th MHBA Yearling Show provided a first chance to see the latest crop of yearlings, and everyone’s hoping for a home run. Words and pix.