Category: MD Breeding

Great Notion colt takes top honors at MHBA Yearling Show

A Great Notion colt took the top spot and the Merryman family dominated at Sunday’s 91st annual Maryland Horse Breeders Association Yearling Show.

Maryland-breds thrived in Kentucky, with Mindframe winning the G1 Stephen Foster and 2yo Romeo upsetting the Bashford Manor.

A pair of Maryland-breds, multiple graded winner Future Is Now and 2yo Romeo, settled for minor spoils in Saratoga stakes Thursday.

Maryland-bred Future Is Now, who earned her first graded win last year in the Intercontinental, will return to Saratoga Thursday to defend it.

Maryland-bred Romeo, a dazzling debut winner by 10 lengths in early May, will dive into the deep end in the Tremont at Saratoga June 5.

Trainer Ned Allard is considering three options for Maryland-bred Quint’s Brew, winner of the General George and twice second in graded company.

The starting gate issues that plagued Pimlico’s opening weekend felt eerily symbolic to some Maryland racing stakeholders.

Four-year-old Md-bred Takethemoneyhoney made her first foray into stakes a winning one when she took a thriller in the Serena’s Song.

Maryland-bred Mindframe had a breakthrough victory Saturday, taking the Grade 1 Churchill Downs on the Kentucky Derby undercard.

Several Midlantic-bred horses are slated to tackle undercard stakes on Kentucky Derby day. Here’s the scoop.

Horses bred in Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania will tackle Saturday’s Wood Memorial, Carter, and other Aqueduct stakes.

Maryland-bred Quint’s Brew, a flashy winner of the General George last out, will next tackle the G2 Carter at Aqueduct April 5.

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