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13
Oct
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  • Josh Pons
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  • Maryland horse racing
  • Maryland Million
  • Maryland Million 2015
  • Street Magician

Maryland Million: “Signature day” can boost young sires

  • Frank Vespe / 10 years
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  • 5 min read

For young sires in particular, Maryland Million success can catch the eyes of the region’s breeders and help propel a stallion.

13
Jul
  • Country Life Farm
  • Friesan Fire
  • Maryland horse racing

Maryland sire Friesan Fire has first winner

  • The Biz / 10 years
  • 0
  • 1 min read

Maryland stud Friesan Fire, the 2009 Kentucky Derby post-time favorite, sired his first winner when Morning Fire scored at Parx this weekend.

27
Feb
  • Country Life Farm
  • Josh Pons
  • Maryland horse racing
  • Matt McCarron
  • Merryland Farm

Matt McCarron named Merryland’s trainer

  • The Biz / 10 years
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  • 2 min read

Matt McCarron will be the new head trainer at the Pons brothers’ Merryland Farm.

08
Oct
  • Cigar
  • Country Life Farm
  • Maryland horse racing
  • Maryland Thoroughbred Hall of Fame
  • Mike Pons

Hall of Famer Cigar passes

  • The Biz / 11 years
  • 2
  • 2 min read

Cigar, the Maryland-bred colt whose 16-race win streak captivated the nation, has died at age 24.

15
Sep
  • Country Life Farm
  • Maryland horse racing
  • Super Ninety Nine

Country Life Farm to add Super Ninety Nine for 2015

  • The Biz / 11 years
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  • 1 min read

Country Life Farm will add Grade 3 winner Super Ninety Nine to its stallion roster for 2015.

05
Aug
  • Brice Ridgely
  • Country Life Farm
  • Declan's Moon
  • Malibu Moon

Brice Ridgely, bred Declan’s Moon, passes

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

Brice Ridgely, the Maryland breeder who bred champion Declan’s Moon, has passed away.

11
Feb
  • Cigar
  • Country Life Farm
  • history

Today in Racing History: Cigar

  • The Biz / 12 years
  • 0
  • 1 min read

Today in Racing History, Cigar won the fourth of his 16 straight victories and the second in his unbeaten 1995 Horse of the Year campaign.

28
Jan
  • Any Given Saturday
  • Baltimore Bob
  • Buffum
  • Corinthian
  • Country Life Farm
  • El Padrino
  • Freedom Child
  • Jim Steele
  • Josh Pons
  • Maryland breeding
  • mid-Atlantic breeding
  • Northview Stallion Station
  • Pennsylvania breeding
  • Pin Oak Lane Farm
  • Shamrock Farm
  • William Solomon

Mid-Atlantic Breeding: New sires, part 2

  • George Rowand / 12 years
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  • 7 min read

In Part 2 of our series on mid-Atlantic breeding’s newcomers, George Rowand checks in on a half-dozen sires new to the region.

27
Dec
  • Country Life Farm
  • Cricket Goodall
  • Josh Pons
  • Maryland Horse Breeders Association
  • Maryland horse racing
  • Mike Pons
  • Orb

Favorite things: Orb’s Maryland story

  • The Biz / 12 years
  • 0
  • 9 min read

Over the next couple of weeks, The Racing Biz will celebrate the holidays by sharing a few of our favorite things: pictures, articles, and videos from 2013.

11
Dec
  • Country Life Farm
  • Cricket Goodall
  • Fasig-Tipton
  • Kitten's Joy
  • Mike Pons
  • Mystic Love
  • Paget Bennett
  • Stuart Morris

In the end, a “good, solid market”

  • Frank Vespe / 12 years
  • 0
  • 4 min read

Monday’s Fasig-Tipton mixed sale enjoyed solid gains — so why did some participants seem so grouchy?

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For trainer Kenny Black, a life.

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