The Maryland Horse Foundation today announced the 2023 participants in the Maryland Thoroughbred Career Program (MTCP).
Blazing Sevens, winner of the 2022 Champagne Stakes, is on track for a date at the Preakness, as is supplemental entry Perform.
Trainer Pat McBurney has been named the winner of Monmouth Park’s Virgil “Buddy” Raines Award for distinguished achievement.
The Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-year-olds in training sale, set for immediately after the Preakness, has added 28 supplemental entries.
Forte, scratched from the Kentucky Derby by the state vet because of a foot bruise, looks to be on track for the Preakness, his trainer said.
Preakness weekend trainer bonuses return for 2023, with trainers able to win bonus money available in both stakes and non-stakes races.
Trainer Jamie Ness has won a record eight straight Delaware Park training titles. One more will give him 11 overall, tying Bud Delp’s record.
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Skinner, third in the Santa Anita Derby, has been scratched from the Kentucky Derby because of an elevated temperature, his trainer said.
Continuar, one of three Japanese entrants to the Kentucky Derby, will scratch, his trainer said, the third recent Derby defection.