Edgar Prado — now the winningest active jockey in the country — logged win number 6,900 this afternoon at Pimlico.
Jockey Feargal Lynch says he lost a decade after being charged with race-fixing in England. But now he’s atop Pimlico’s standings and looking forward to the future.
Phlash Phelps, Monster Sleeping, and Middleburg are among 122 nominees to Pimlico’s two Maryland-bred and three Virginia-bred stakes closing weekend.
Jockey Edgar Prado turned 49 yesterday, celebrating with a pair of mounts, and has been thriving in his return to Maryland.
Speedy West Virginia-bred Bullets Fever bested Pimlico allowance foes this afternoon to run his record to six wins in six starts.
Jockey Victor Carrasco won five today at Pimlico, including a track record-setting performance aboard Inside Out.
Lara Le Geay of France won today’s international amateur FEGENTRI race at Pimlico today; the next FEGENTRI will be tomorrow at Penn National.
In a move made with little fanfare, the Maryland Racing Commission earlier this year adopted enhanced “graded stakes” testing on all equine samples.
Claiming activity in the mid-Atlantic was flat on a month-over-month basis but 2016 to date lags well behind 2015, in our Claimbox report.
Fresh off a maiden score, Coco as in Chanel lodged a 16-1 upset in Saturday’s Stormy Blues Stakes at Pimlico.