Hit the Kentucky Derby and have bragging rights for a year. Miss it? It can be a long wait till the next one… musings on wagering the Derby.
Saturday’s Virginia-bred races at Pimlico brought together the past, present, and — perhaps — future of Virginia racing, even if it was in Maryland.
Ad exec-horse breeder-conservationist Bill Backer, who died May 13, was a “renaissance man” whose legacy, friends said, will be felt for generations.
From atop the Pimlico pressbox, here’s what the running of the Preakness looked like call-by-call.
With the future of Pimlico and the Preakness on many minds these days, Preakness racegoers said keep the big race home.
“You give me 90 days, we could win a race at Charles Town,” says Frank Shipp, who managed ’91 Preakness winner Hansel’s career.
The Virginia Thoroughbred Association (VTA) has nearly 120 stallion seasons on offer for its annual two-day auction, which begins Wednesday.
At its meeting yesterday, the Virginia Racing Commission rejected several Colonial Downs proposals – and made clear it’s fed up with the company and its owner.
At issue before the Virginia Racing Commission: Colonial Downs’s proposals to run 1 day of live racing 2015 and 4 in ’16, and its request to reopen 2 OTBs.
American Pharoah won the Breeders’ Cup Classic Saturday in his last race, It may have seemed like fate, but even fate might not have been able to catch him.