MTROA seeking to add community component to Preakness
While it won’t operate Preakness weekend racing in 2025, the state-created MTROA is nevertheless hoping to build a weeklong celebratoin around it.
Read Moreby Frank Vespe | Jul 15, 2024 | Breaking, Business, Bylined Other, Maryland, MD Business | 0 |
While it won’t operate Preakness weekend racing in 2025, the state-created MTROA is nevertheless hoping to build a weeklong celebratoin around it.
Read Moreby Frank Vespe | Jul 2, 2024 | Breaking, Business, Bylined Other, Maryland, MD Business | 1 |
Pimlico will close for racing, training, and wagering September 1, MJC chief MIke Rogers wrote horsemen, as the renewal of Maryland racing ramps up.
Read Moreby Frank Vespe | Jun 25, 2024 | Breaking, Business, Bylined Other, Regionwide | 0 |
It’s last call for 2024 two-year-old sales, and the Fasig-Tipton June sale will send several dozen juveniles onto the next phase of their careers.
Read Moreby Frank Vespe | Jun 18, 2024 | Breaking, Business, Bylined Other, National news | 0 |
The new HISA rules, which go into effect July 8, modify existing void claim and waiver claiming regs and make a variety of other changes.
Read Moreby Nick Hahn | Jun 12, 2024 | Breaking, Bylined Other, Opinion, Virginia, Virginia Business | 0 |
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoed a bill that would have permitted so-called “gray games’ with few restrictions: it was the right call for racing.
Read Moreby Press Release | May 30, 2024 | Breaking, Business, Bylined Other, Maryland, MD Business | 0 |
The Laurel Park summer stakes schedule, topped by the Frank De Francis Memorial Dash, kicks off June 16 and includes several Sunday stakes.
Read Moreby Frank Vespe | May 21, 2024 | Breaking, Business, Bylined Other, Regionwide | 0 |
A $1.25 million Bolt d’Oro filly led the way at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic two-year-old sale in Timonium, which saw nearly $33 million in gross sales.
Read Moreby Frank Vespe | May 20, 2024 | Breaking, Business, Bylined Other, Regionwide | 0 |
The first of two days of the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic two-year-old sale saw nearly $13.2 million in sales, topped by a Bernardini filly.
Read Moreby Nick Hahn | May 10, 2024 | Breaking, Business, Bylined Other, Virginia, Virginia Business | 0 |
On the strength of the biggest-ever win by a Virginia-bred at Colonial Downs, Gigante has been named state-bred Horse of the Year.
Read Moreby Frank Vespe | May 9, 2024 | Breaking, Business, Bylined Other, Maryland, MD Business | 0 |
Gov. Wes Moore on Thursday signed into law legislation that will enable the Pimlico Plus plan to move forward.
Read Moreby Frank Vespe | May 7, 2024 | Breaking, Business, Bylined Other, National news | 0 |
Wagering handle on US Thoroughbred races fell sharply in April, down over 11% versus April 2023, and is down over six percent for the year to date.
Read Moreby Frank Vespe | May 2, 2024 | Breaking, Business, Bylined Other, Maryland, MD Business | 0 |
An administrative law judge swatted down HISA and ruled in favor of Maryland-based trainer Derrick Parram in a complicated void-claim case.
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