Laurel Park will race 120 days in 2026 under a schedule okayed by the Racing Commission, with Timonium and Fair Hill slates also approved.
Off a successful first racing day in several years, Fair Hill officials have said they hope to add race days in the coming years.
The news that Fair Hill would, for the first time since 2019, host a day of live racing has organizers in an upbeat mood.
Maryland’s Fair Hill Training Center will replace its 7-furlong Tapeta Footings track this summer, with the company’s newest iteration, Tapeta 13.
Fair Hill Training Center, the 350-acre training facility in northeastern Maryland, has hired veteran horseman Robert Croteau as general manager.
The Maryland Jockey Club will race 120 days in 2025, with seven more days run at Timonium, under a slate approved by the Racing Commission Monday.
Multiple graded stakes-winning Maryland-bred had his final local work Saturday before leaving for California and the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile.
NYRA today announced an incentive program to encourage horsemen based at Fair Hill Training Center to ship to New York and run.
Glorious Empire, the Chuck Lawrence-trained, Fair Hill-based runner who was a finalist for the top turf horse of 2018, has been retired.
Recently a troubled fifth in the G1 Florida Derby, the Maryland-based Independence Hall will cut back to one-turn races, his connections said.