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.
As first reported in The Racing Biz, Pimlico’s spring meet will be broadcast in high-definition, for which the Maryland Jockey Club has spent $1.5 million.
Daily average handle rose at Laurel Park during the winter meet, though, with a dozen missed days, gross handle declined.
“Country fuzz” band The Cadillac Three will headline a Preakness kickoff concert, the Maryland Jockey Club said.
The Maryland Jockey Club announced Tuesday that approximately $7 million in improvements at Laurel Park could be completed within the next month.