Graded stakes, country racing, and Virginia’s future
Saturday’s Commonwealth Oaks and state-bred races at Laurel Park were a huge success. But what, if anything, does that say about Virginia’s future racing?
Saturday’s Commonwealth Oaks and state-bred races at Laurel Park were a huge success. But what, if anything, does that say about Virginia’s future racing?
Maryland’s Throughbred industry has made real strides in recent years. But the coming years pose complicated challenges of their own.
One of the “stanozolol three,” Hector Garcia, along with his boss Juan Vazquez, has also been asked to remove his horses from Maryland Jockey Club grounds.
The claiming statistics and leaders for the week ending December 16, in our Claimbox Report.
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.