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18
Mar
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  • apprentice jockeys
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  • David Hayden
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  • Louis Ulman
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Maryland Racing Commission tweaks jockey weight allowance rule

  • Frank Vespe / 12 years
  • 0
  • 5 min read

The Maryland Racing Commission today tweaked the rules regarding apprentice jockey weight allowances, but the Jockeys’ Guild was still dissatisfied.

15
Mar
  • Caesar's Wish S.
  • Gary Capuano
  • Laurel Park
  • Maryland horse racing
  • Steady N Love
  • Victor Carrasco

Suddenly improving Steady N Love too much for Caesar’s WIsh foes

  • Frank Vespe / 12 years
  • 0
  • 3 min read

The rapidly improving Steady N Love turned the tables on two horses she’d previously lost to and won the Caesar’s Wish at Laurel Park.

10
Mar
  • Andy Andrews
  • Berkley Kern
  • Champions Handicapping Tournament
  • Diana Harbaugh
  • Dylan Smith
  • John Scheinman
  • Laurel Park
  • Maryland horse racing
  • Maryland Jockey Club

All in, but not too crowded, at Champions handicapping tournament

  • Frank Vespe / 12 years
  • 2
  • 4 min read

The Champions handicapping contest at Laurel attracted a full field and a variety of strategies. Turns out, second is good enough — except when it’s not.

24
Feb
  • Barbara Fritchie H.
  • Behemoth
  • Claudio Gonzalez
  • John B. Campbell S.
  • Laurel Park
  • Maryland horse racing
  • Michael Hushion
  • My Wandy's Girl
  • Rajiv Maragh
  • Somraj Singh
  • Victor Santiago

On Barbara Fritchie Handicap day, persistence rewarded

  • Frank Vespe / 12 years
  • 0
  • 4 min read

Persistence was the word of Barbara Fritchie Handicap day, as horses — and jockeys — gave their all to take Laurel’s two stakes.

18
Feb
  • Alan Foreman
  • Ann Merryman
  • apprentice jockeys
  • Bruce Quade
  • Jockeys Guild
  • John McDaniel
  • Linda Gaudet
  • Maryland horse racing
  • Maryland Racing Commission
  • Maryland Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association
  • Mindy Coleman

Maryland Racing Commission punts jockey weight issue for another month

  • Frank Vespe / 12 years
  • 2
  • 5 min read

Unable to reach consensus on the issue of apprentice jockey weight allowances, the Maryland Racing Commission took its own advice today and punted — for a month.

18
Feb
  • Bandbox
  • Dance to Bristol
  • Ellen Charles
  • General George H.
  • Laurel Park
  • Maryland horse racing
  • Ollie Figgins III
  • Rodney Jenkins
  • Susan Wantz
  • Xavier Perez

Happy return, excitement ahead for Bandbox, Perez

  • Frank Vespe / 12 years
  • 2
  • 5 min read

After Dance to Bristol was honored as top Maryland-based horse, her rider, Xavier Perez snapped a long slump — aboard a horse, Bandbox, with an even longer slump.

04
Feb
  • Belmont Stakes
  • Cairo Prince
  • Extrasexyhippzster
  • Havana
  • Kentucky Derby
  • Preakness
  • Shared Belief
  • Triple Crown

Derby dreaming

  • Frank Vespe / 12 years
  • 3
  • 5 min read

Beyond the top Kentucky Derby contenders lies a less-known group of nominees to the Triple Crown: horses that have thus far failed to break their maidens.

28
Jan
  • Bold Curlin
  • Gary Capuano
  • Joint Custody
  • Laurel Park
  • Maryland horse racing
  • mid-Atlantic horse racing
  • Miracle Wood S.
  • Native Dancer S.
  • Steady N Love
  • Victor Carrasco
  • Wesley Ho
  • What a Summer S.
  • Wide Country S.

Place photo

  • Frank Vespe / 12 years
  • 1
  • 5 min read

In racing, success and failure are clear-cut. Except when they’re not.

24
Jan
  • Buffum
  • Dermot Carty
  • Despite the Odds
  • Heritage Stallions
  • Hunters Bay
  • Kathy Degges
  • Mary Crisco
  • Maryland breeding
  • Northview Stallion Station
  • Not for Love
  • Paul O'Loughlin
  • Phoebe Hayes

Maryland breeding, poised between past and future

  • Frank Vespe / 12 years
  • 0
  • 4 min read

At a pair of weekend stallion open houses, Maryland breeders looked to the past, and the future.

11
Dec
  • Country Life Farm
  • Cricket Goodall
  • Fasig-Tipton
  • Kitten's Joy
  • Mike Pons
  • Mystic Love
  • Paget Bennett
  • Stuart Morris

In the end, a “good, solid market”

  • Frank Vespe / 12 years
  • 0
  • 4 min read

Monday’s Fasig-Tipton mixed sale enjoyed solid gains — so why did some participants seem so grouchy?

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