Off-track Thoroughbreds were among the stars of this past weekend’s Pennsylvania Horse World Expo in Harrisburg.
The Thoroughbred industry’s economic indicators showed positive signs in February, with wagering and purses both increasing.
Sunny Ridge and Valid, both listed among the top Midlantic-breds in the year’s first poll, met defeat this weekend in graded stakes contests.
In the first Top Midlantic-bred Poll of 2016, speedy soph Cathryn Sophia and hard-hitting Page McKenney to their divisions.
Michael Beck, 46, a multiple stakes winning trainer born and raised in Maryland, has passed away.
The 31st annual Jim McKay Maryland Million day will take place October 22 at Laurel Park.
Maryland tracks will continue to prohibit Payson Park training center shippers, where a horse tested positive for EHV 1, but will now allow those from elsewhere in Florida.
New Jersey-bred Sunny Ridge has been installed as the second morning line choice for Saturday’s G3 Gotham Stakes at Aqueduct.
The first horses arrived at Delaware Park March 1 to begin training for the 2016 meeting, which starts May 21.
Virginia Racing Commission executive secretary Bernie Hettel will step down, probably by the end of March, the Commission announced.