Author: Frank Vespe

New Maryland riding crop rules paying quick dividends

New rules limiting riders’ use of the riding crop lightened three jocks’ wallets in the first three days – but met with widespread acclaim.

With a perfect setup and a game effort, Mean Bean blew up the toteboard in winning Saturday’s Mint Mission Overnight Stakes at Charles Town Races.

Clubman, owner of two stakes wins at bullring tracks, is the tepid morning line favorite in Saturday’s $35,000 Mint Mission at Charles Town Races.

Trainer Hamilton Smith earned his 2,000th career win with — appropriately — a horse owned and bred by his brother and sired by his lone Derby runner.

Torch of Truth won a race at Laurel Park Friday, but it’s his other job – as Derby hopeful Independence Hall’s workmate – that’s more important.

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