Category: Top Stories

Artful Splatter, Honor the Fleet give owners first stakes wins

by Ted Black | Jan 18, 2020 | Breaking, Maryland, MD Racing, Racing, Top Stories | 1 |

Two longtime owners enjoyed their first stakes wins Saturday at Laurel Park, as Artful Splatter and Honor the Fleet upset the Geisha and Fire Plug Stakes.

“Cinderella” horse Alwaysmining scores in Jennings

by Frank Vespe | Jan 18, 2020 | Breaking, Maryland, MD Racing, Racing, Top Stories | 0 |

Alwaysmining, the top Maryland three-year-old of 2019, rediscovered his winning ways with a solid triumph in the Jennings Stakes at Laurel Park.

Five questions for this week’s Midlantic stakes

by Frank Vespe | Jan 18, 2020 | Breaking, Racing, Regionwide, Top Stories | 0 |

There are four stakes at Laurel Park on Saturday and a fifth at Charles Town, and we have five questions for the weekend’s Midlantic stakes action.

Mint Mission stunner, Derby trail runner, Unique Bella babe: The week in social media

by Chelsea Lowman | Jan 17, 2020 | Breaking, Business, Regionwide, Top Stories | 0 |

Champion runner Unique Bella has a foal, Mean Bean stuns the Mint Mission, and Monday Morning Qb hits the Derby trail, in the week in social media.

Which Maryland trainers are nearing career milestones?

by Frank Vespe | Jan 15, 2020 | Breaking, Maryland, MD Racing, Racing, Top Stories | 0 |

When Hamilton Smith won his 2,000th recently, we wondered: which Maryland trainers have the most wins, and which are closest to career milestones?

Mid-Atlantic racing roundup, January 15, 2020

by John Piassek | Jan 15, 2020 | Breaking, Racing, Regionwide, Top Stories | 0 |

Your five-minute read to catch up on all the Mid-Atlantic racing action you may have missed over the weekend…

New Maryland riding crop rules paying quick dividends

by Frank Vespe | Jan 14, 2020 | Breaking, Maryland, MD Racing, Racing, Top Stories | 0 |

New rules limiting riders’ use of the riding crop lightened three jocks’ wallets in the first three days – but met with widespread acclaim.

Hamilton Smith earns 2,000th training victory

by Frank Vespe | Jan 10, 2020 | Breaking, Maryland, MD Racing, Racing, Top Stories | 0 |

Trainer Hamilton Smith earned his 2,000th career win with — appropriately — a horse owned and bred by his brother and sired by his lone Derby runner.

Sharing, Justify babies, and #NeverEclipsed: The week in social media

by Chelsea Lowman | Jan 10, 2020 | Breaking, Business, Regionwide, Top Stories | 0 |

Maryland-bred Sharing is an Eclipse finalist, Justify’s first foal, and a retired racehorse social media campaign, in the week in social media.

Mid-Atlantic racing roundup, January 9, 2020

by John Piassek | Jan 9, 2020 | Breaking, Racing, Regionwide, Top Stories | 0 |

Your five-minute read to catch up on all the Mid-Atlantic racing action you may have missed over the weekend…

Pinhook Diary: A lot of hope on a little colt

by Chelsea Lowman | Jan 7, 2020 | Breaking, Features, Regionwide, Top Stories | 0 |

Chelsea Lowman long had a dream to pinhook a Thoroughbred, and in her monthly diary, which kicks off today, she’ll take us along for the experience.

Best of 2019: Interview with Ron Turcotte

by The Biz | Jan 6, 2020 | Breaking, Regionwide, Top Stories, Video | 0 |

Our Best of 2019 series revisits the content that our readers or editors loved most last year. Here, a couple of videos of jockeys’ first career victories.

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