Following a reverse feeding frenzy and very public navel-gazing by his owner, Triple Crown king American Pharoah is headed to Monmouth Park’s G1 Haskell.
Handle rose sharply during the just-completed Pimlico meet, although the facility and racing product were largely the same as last year. So, what happened?
It’s been 10 years since a horse did the Preakness-Belmont double. Is that because it’s so hard — or because so few attempt it in recent years?
Penn National’s gate crew staged a strike Saturday, protesting what they called unfair labor practices. But, belatedly, the show went on without them.
The Fasig-Tipton 2-Year-Olds in Training sale which concluded yesterday showed across-the-board gains. Plus, breadowns of each of the mid-Atlantic states.
The Maryland Racing Commission today agreed to adopt the Racing Medication and Testing Consortium’s proposed cobalt regulations.
As is often the case in Baltimore, high-brow and low-brow shared an easy coexistence on Preakness day, while it was in-with-the-new on the track.
Maryland’s Throughbred industry has made real strides in recent years. But the coming years pose complicated challenges of their own.
Jockey Trevor McCarthy will turn 21 on Saturday and ride in his first Preakness. It’s heady stuff, but he’s keeping his feet on the ground.
How Xtra Heat went from ignored to beloved to an Eclipse winner to a Hall of Famer is, says trainer John Salzman, Sr., “a good story from the ground up.”