Five Maryland horsemen who’ve run in the Triple Crown gave us five different, varying perspectives on lengthening the time from Derby to Preakness to Belmont..
Our RaceBrief racing notebook grabs some of yesterday’s highlights and looks ahead to the future.
Veteran rider Horacio Karamanos won three races on Sunday at Pimlico, capping off a week that also included a major upset in the Twixt Stakes.
Aunt Ellen hadn’t shown much in 10 winless starts. The light came on today, though, as she rolled up the center of the lane to win the Twixt Stakes.
Mid-Atlantic claiming activity rose for the fourth consecutive week, and that led to some shuffling of the Midlantic Claiming 7, in our Claimbox report.
After a failed mediation, Colonial Downs and Virginia’s horsemen aren’t close — and may be getting farther away from — a resolution to save the 2014 meet.
Scott Lake remained the mid-Atlantic’s busiest claiming trainer after the busiest week of claiming activity in three months, in our Claimbox report.
The busiest claiming week of 2014 led to significant shuffling of the Midlantic Claiming 7, in our Claimbox report.
Claiming activity bounced back with a normal racing week, but little changed in our Midlantic Claiming 7, in our Claimbox report.
With a spate of weather-related cancellations, a very slow week of mid-Atlantic racing led to a very slow week of claiming, in our Claimbox report.