For racing and breeding in Virginia and Maryland, only one thing about the future is certain: the only way forward is change.
Owner Kaleem Shah will have two cracks at glory this weekend, with favored Luminance in the Black-Eyed Susan and Dortmund in the Preakness.
Dortmund is six-for-six in his career. Will the Kentucky Derby be lucky seven? That’s up to the racing gods, owner Kaleem Shah, a Virginia resident, says.
For Keswick Stables, Stellar Wind is the end of the line: the last horse out of the last mare. “Nice to go out with a bang,” says Keswick’s owner.
The future remains murky, the Virginia Racing Commission learned, with the present characterized by shuttered facilities, withheld payments, and failed negotiations.
With legislation to govern Virginia racing now passed, new questions abound: Where and when will racing take place? And who will run it?
The fog may be lifting and the ice thawing in a Virginia racing dispute that canceled the 2014 Colonial Downs meet.
The annual VTA Stallion Season Auction, which takes place next week, has attracted some top national stallions.
Made Bail will try to get sprung into stakes company in the Marylander at Laurel for owner-trainer Susan Cooney – helping make up for Embarr’s retirement.
Tonalist’s breeders and V. E. Day’s owner are more than Breeders’ Cup Classic rivals; they’re Northern Virginia neighbors and, now, friends.