Jockey Nik Juarez made the first stakes win of his career a big one, guiding Valid to a win in the Grade 3 Iselin at Monmouth Park.
Grade 1 winners Lovely Maria and Cavorting are among 36 nominations to the Grade 3 Charles Town Oaks to be run September 19.
Four Midlantic-breds will try Grade 1 company today at Saratoga.
Three-year-old Troubled Kid sped 5 1/2 furlongs in 1:02.58 Tuesday at Delaware Park to set a track record.
Pennsylvania-bred Holiday Star carries the banner for Midlantic-breds in today’s lone Saratoga stake.
A new Horse Festival will enliven the Maryland State Fair in Timonium starting Friday, August 28, and it starts from a simple idea: “Everyone loves horses.”
A story in The Racing Biz regarding a betamethasone case in Delaware has been nominated for Team Valor’s Stan Bergstein Writing Award.
Churchill Downs announcer Travis Stone will take over racecalling duties for this fall’s West Virginia Breeders’ Classics XXIX.
The Page McKenney show rolled on in this weekend’s mid-Atlantic stakes action.
Rider Forest Boyce won three to close the Laurel Park summer meet, trainer Kieron Magee won at Saratoga, and other Maryland racing notes.