A field of 10 older runners is entered in Sunday’s Grade 1 United Nations Stakes from Monmouth Park.
Claiming activity dropped substantially, plus the Midlantic Claiming 7, in our Claimbox report.
We spent a few minutes with Maryland Jockey Club president Tom Chuckas to get his take on the Bowie training center, takeout, the Preakness, and more.
Joint Return is the lukewarm 5-2 favorite in Saturday’s Grade 2 Delaware Oaks, which has drawn four from the Black-Eyed Susan, including runner-up Vero Amore.
An accomplished group of sophomore sprinters will tackle Delaware Park’s Oh Say Stakes on Saturday on the Delaware Oaks undercard.
Vegas No Show, a two-time stake winner in 2013, is the morning line favorite for Saturday’s Carl Hanford Memorial Stakes in the four year-old’s 2014 debut.
A full field is slated to run in Saturday’s Robert Dick Memorial at Delaware Park, and Graham Motion will have two shots at a seventh win in the event.
Two-time defending champ Houston will look to threepeat at the Totally Thoroughbred Horse Show at Pimlico July 13.
The 2014 Timonium race meeting will feature seven days of live racing over two weekends, including Labor Day.
in the Virginia dates dispute between Colonial Downs and the state’s horsemen, Colonial is going to court to halt a Racing Commission directive.