The reality of new programs to bolster Maryland-breds — and the perception of those programs — had a big impact at Monday’s yearling sale.
Two barns with a combined total of three wins in 2014 came up big in Laurel stakes Saturday, which left trainers Lilli Kurtinecz and Bruce Alexander beaming.
With a report to the Legislature due December 1, the Maryland Racing Commission made clear today that it will endorse continued slots funding for horse racing.
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.