For the third straight year, Xpressbet will offer a Big Bet Sweepstakes with one grand prize winner getting a trip to the Preakness and a $25,000 win wager on the big race.
Claiming activity jumped 35 percent in March, in our Claimbox report.
Along with new wagers and facility improvements, Pimlico will offer significant bonuses to owners and trainers who run in stakes races over Preakness weekend.
No April Fool’s here: Today’s Midlantic Triple Crown update features a Louisiana Derby result and more.
HRTV will partner with Penn National Gaming Inc. to broadcast the Charles Town Classic and several other races in the company’s Penn Gaming Racing Challenge.
Flat racers will share the spotlight with steeplechase runners on Virginia Gold Cup day, May 2, when three flat races will be run in addition to the jump races.
Jockey Sheldon Russell and trainer Claudio Gonzalez topped the standings at the just completed Laurel Park winter meet.
As first reported in The Racing Biz, Pimlico’s spring meet will be broadcast in high-definition, for which the Maryland Jockey Club has spent $1.5 million.
Maryland Million Ltd. has named Suttler Post Farm Clydesdales the Official Cldyesdales of Jim McKay Maryland Million Day, the organization announced.
In this week’s NTRA Top Thoroughbred Poll of 2015, Shared Belief and Dortmund remain the leaders, while International Star and Materiality make big moves.