The third annual Horse Industry Day brings industry participants together to raise awareness among state legislators of the economic and environmental impacts of Maryland’s horses.
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.