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.
Rodney Dangerfield said that he went to a fight and a hockey game broke out. Replace “hockey game” with “horse race,” and you have the week in horse racing.
We loved “brash” Steve Coburn when California Chrome was winning. In defeat, he became a sore loser. That change says more about us than about Coburn.
Five Maryland horsemen who’ve run in the Triple Crown gave us five different, varying perspectives on lengthening the time from Derby to Preakness to Belmont..