In the face of the nation’s reckoning with racism, the Maryland Jockey Club will scrap the playing of the controversial state song before the Preakness.
The Maryland Jockey Club (MJC) will require jockeys who raced at Colonial Downs to quarantine until August 27 before riding at Laurel Park.
With the Maryland State Fair as we have known looking unlikely, the Timonium race meet will not occur, those days being run instead at Laurel Park.
Jockeys who race elsewhere will be forbidden from riding in Maryland for a two-week quarantine period, the Maryland Jockey Club announced.
The Stronach Group came to the Maryland Racing Commission for an endorsement of Lasix-free baby races. Instead it got a tongue-lashing.
The Maryland Racing Commission today approved the return of live racing to Laurel Park, which kicks off its summer meet May 30.
Jillian Tullock – Maryland’s racing secretary without racing – is hoping what she calls a “mind-boggling” situation will soon be resolved.
Preakness 145 will take place – as rumors had suggested – October 3 at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore.
The date for Preakness 145 will be unveiled Saturday on NBC as part of a two-hour – half-online, half-TV – celebration of the Middle Jewel.
The Preakness InfieldFest will be canceled this year, the Maryland Jockey Club announced, while the company continues to seek a date for the middle jewel.