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08
Jan
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  • Bob Baffert
  • Colonial Downs
  • equine fatalities
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Racing trends to watch in 2025

  • Frank Vespe / 1 year
  • 0
  • 6 min read

What’s going to happen in racing in 2025? Your guess is as good as ours, but here are some racing trends to watch in 2025.

Set Piece
16
Dec
  • American Graded Stakes Committee
  • Delaware Park
  • Dinner Party S.
  • Dr. James Penny Memorial H.
  • Kent S.
  • Laurel Park
  • mid-Atlantic horse racing
  • Monmouth Park
  • Mr. Prospector S.
  • Parx Racing
  • Pimlico
  • Sapling S.
  • Stormy Blues S.
  • The Very One S.

Dinner Party Stakes downgraded for ’23

  • The Biz / 3 years
  • 2
  • 6 min read

The American Graded Stakes Committee released its grades for 2023 today, with the Dinner Party the most prominent regional race getting downgraded.

Switzerland
31
Jan
  • American Graded Stakes Committee
  • De Francis Dash
  • Laurel Park
  • mid-Atlantic horse racing
  • Parx Dash
  • Parx Racing

De Francis Dash, Parx Dash lose graded status

  • Frank Vespe / 4 years
  • 2
  • 7 min read

With the latest list of graded stakes out, two important Mid-Atlantic races — the De Francis Dash and Parx Dash — both were downgraded from G3 to listed.

Swiss Skydiver
18
Dec
  • American Graded Stakes Committee
  • Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association

Graded stakes for 2021 announced

  • Press Release / 5 years
  • 2
  • 5 min read

The American Graded Stakes Committee today announced the list of all graded and listed stakes for 2021.

Justify
01
Dec
  • American Graded Stakes Committee
  • Laurel Park
  • Monmouth Park
  • Parx Racing

List of graded stakes includes 42 Midlantic races

  • Press Release / 7 years
  • 0
  • 8 min read

The latest list of graded stakes includes 42 in the Mid-Atlantic, among them five Grade 1 races and eight Grade 2 events.

Songbird
05
Dec
  • American Graded Stakes Committee
  • Baltimore-Washington International Turf Cup
  • Delaware Handicap
  • mid-Atlantic horse racing
  • Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association

Four Midlantic stakes downgraded for 2018

  • Frank Vespe / 8 years
  • 0
  • 6 min read

Four Midlantic stakes — including the G1 Delaware Handicap and G2 BWI Turf Cup — have been knocked down a level by the Graded Stakes Committee.

Exaggerator
02
Dec
  • American Graded Stakes Committee
  • mid-Atlantic horse racing
  • Pennsylvania Derby
  • Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association

Pennsylvania Derby awarded Grade 1 status

  • Press Release / 9 years
  • 0
  • 5 min read

The Pennsylvania Derby and Penn Mile both received upgrades for 2017 from the American Graded Stakes Committee.

12
Nov
  • American Graded Stakes Committee
  • Andy Schweigardt
  • Colonial Downs
  • Virginia horse racing

Virginia Racing Commission to hold five key hearings

  • Nick Hahn / 10 years
  • 0
  • 5 min read

At issue before the Virginia Racing Commission: Colonial Downs’s proposals to run 1 day of live racing 2015 and 4 in ’16, and its request to reopen 2 OTBs.

11
Dec
  • American Graded Stakes Committee
  • QuickTake
  • Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association

QuickTake: Making the grade

  • The Biz / 11 years
  • 0
  • 4 min read

In our latest QuickTake: as foal crops and races decline, the number of graded races continues to rise, both nationally and here in the mid-Atlantic.

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