The Maryland Racing Commission today gave approval for live racing dates in July at Laurel Park and for seven live days at the State Fair in Timonium.
Handle rose sharply during the just-completed Pimlico meet, although the facility and racing product were largely the same as last year. So, what happened?
Handle rose strongly during the recently completed Pimlico spring meet, the Maryland Jockey Club announced today.
In today’s Belmont notes: Maryland Jockey Club parties, a final move for Keen Ice, and Tale of Verve is “out to win it,”
For racing and breeding in Virginia and Maryland, only one thing about the future is certain: the only way forward is change.
Maryland’s Throughbred industry has made real strides in recent years. But the coming years pose complicated challenges of their own.
Midlantic tracks struggled in the Horseplayers Association of North America’s annual track rankings for 2015, focused on horseplayer value and playability.
Rosie Napravnik, the jockey whose journey began in Maryland and took her to the top of her profession, will receive the Special Award of Merit Preakness week.
The Maryland Racing Commission will review the medication policies it has put in place in the last 18 months as part of the national uniform medication program.
It hasn’t been warm, and the cherry blossoms aren’t out yet, but we know spring is in the air, because the opening day of Pimlico’s meet is upon us.