Roger Ramey, who helped Charles Town Races attain passage of legislation permitting slot machines, passed away August 1 at the age of 85.
The new Colonial Downs will kick off its 2019 season Thursday with a 10-race card featuring big fields and plenty of grass racing.
The move by Delaware Park is designed to make the track’s lower-level claiming and maiden claiming races more competitive with other tracks in the region.
This week’s Off to the Races radio will feature trainer Dee Curry and author Robin Traywick Williams.
After surviving an inquiry to win the G1 Haskell, Maximum Security took a place in the NTRA Top Thoroughbred Poll.
Charles Town Races will increase purses by about 17 percent, the result of recent legislation that returns to the track moneys that had earlier been taken from it.
Hard-hitting gelding Social Outcast and speedy turf star Youth are the latest horses to join the Maryland Thoroughbred Hall of Fame.
Old Time Revival recaptured his winning ways when dropping out of stakes company to face allowance foes Thursday at Laurel Park.
Scrap Copper, a stakes winner at two, will make his three-year-old debut Thursday at Laurel Park.
In its upcoming meet, which kicks off in August, Colonial Downs will have takeout rates among the nation’s lowest.
