Saturday’s Maryland Pride Day will kick off with a free Yearling Sale seminar at 11:00 a.m. at Laurel Park, featuring experts on the sales process.
The Maryland Jockey Club’s $3.25 million fall stakes program at Laurel Park features four graded events, as well as three new state-bred stakes.
A big group of horses came out for the Maryland Horse Breeders Association’s 82nd annual yearling show, and a Sagamore Farm filly took top honors.
The growing sense of momentum in Maryland and throughout the mid-Atlantic may bolster this week’s Fasig-Tipton 2-year-old sale, market participants said.
Trainer John Servis — conditioner of Kentucky Oaks winner Cathryn Sophia — will judge the Maryland Horse Breeders Association’s annual yearling show.
Maryland Racing Commissioner Bruce Quade will receive the Maryland Horse Breeders Association’s prestigious — and rarely given — Federico Tesio Award.
Growing funds and the perception that the state’s racing and breeding programs have a stable foundation are fueling a Maryland breeding industry rebirth.
Next Tuesday, the second annual Horse Industry Day will give Marylanders in the equine industry a chance to bend the ears of legislators.
The number of mares bred in the mid-Atlantic has dropped in recent years — as has where they’re bred, as optimism, uncertainty impact breeder decisions.
The Maryland Racing Commission yesterday agreed to reduce some Maryland-bred incentive payments and heard a proposal to create a Maryland-bred day at Laurel.
