The contentious battle for the presidency of New York’s horsemen’s group is now causing similar discord among mid-Atlantic horsemen.
Retaining racing’s share of slots revenue is job one, but there are many other issues facing Maryland horsemen as they elect their association’s directors.
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.
Seven fillies are set to go in Saturday’s week-delayed Caesar’s Wish Stakes, with Steady N Love tapped as the even money favorite.
Scott Lake remained the mid-Atlantic’s busiest claiming trainer after the busiest week of claiming activity in three months, in our Claimbox report.