Saturday’s Native Dancer Stakes at Laurel Park looks to be a battle between multiple stakes winners John Jones and Afleet Willy.
Unsurprisingly, Gun Runner was named Horse of the Year at the Eclipse Awards, while PA-bred Unique Bella won the female sprinter title.
Breeders’ Cup Classic winner and like 2017 Horse of the Year Gun Runner is 4-5 on the morning line for Saturday’s Pegasus World Cup at Gulfstream.
The tragic fire which killed 46 horses at San Luis Rey training center was the clear winner as NTRA Moment of the Year.
Multiple Grade 1 winner Bolt d’Oro and Breeders’ Cup Juvenile champ Good Magic top the Jockey Club’s 2-year-old rankings for 2017.
Monmouth Park will sweeten the financial pot for owners and trainers this year to increase field size, as well as opening on Kentucky Derby day.
For the second straight year – this time despite a disappointing second half of the season – Arrogate was named the World’s Best Racehorse.
The University of Maryland’s Equine Studies Program will receive a special award from the Md. Horse Breeders Association.
Jockey Jevian Toledo, injured in a training accident at Laurel Park, has been released from the hospital and is hopeful of returning to riding late next month.
Jockey Jevian Toledo will be out indefinitely after fracturing two vertebrae in a training accident.
