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17
Feb
  • Harry Meyerhoff
  • Marengo Road
  • Maryland horse racing
  • Michael Trombetta
  • Spectacular Bid

Harry Meyerhoff, owner of Spectacular Bid, passes

  • The Biz / 10 years
  • 0
  • 3 min read

Maryland native Harry Meyerhoff, who campaigned Hall of Famer Spectacular Bid, passed away February 11.

16
Feb
  • Julian Pimentel
  • Laurel Park
  • Marengo Road
  • Maryland horse racing
  • Michael Trombetta
  • Miracle Wood S.

Marengo Road holds on for Miracle Wood win

  • The Biz / 10 years
  • 0
  • 3 min read

Marengo Road, from the racing operation of owner Harry Meyerhoff, who died last week, scored a solid win in Monday’s Miracle Wood Stakes at Laurel Park.

30
Jan
  • Candida H.
  • Conniver S.
  • Julian Pimentel
  • Laurel Park
  • Maryland horse racing
  • Michael Trombetta

Tactics change gives Candida H. first stakes win

  • Frank Vespe / 10 years
  • 0
  • 3 min read

A minor change in tactics gave Candida H. the extra gear she needed, and she earned her first stakes win in today’s Conniver Stakes at Laurel Park.

19
Nov
  • Awesome Speed
  • Classy Coco
  • Eddy Gourmet
  • Laurel Park
  • Maryland horse racing
  • Michael Trombetta

Top distaffers square off in Laurel Saturday feature

  • The Biz / 11 years
  • 0
  • 4 min read

Saturday’s allowance feature at Laurel Park will be a showdown including two stakes-winning distaffers; plus Laurel Park racing notes.

11
Sep
  • Kathleen O'Connell
  • Laurel Futurity
  • Laurel Park
  • Maryland horse racing
  • Michael Trombetta

A tale of two approaches in Laurel Futurity

  • The Biz / 11 years
  • 0
  • 3 min read

While Mike Trombetta hopes Thunder Pass reprises his last race in Saturday’s Laurel Futurity, Kathleen O’Connell wants anything but for Formal Summation.

20
May
  • Fasig-Tipton
  • Fasig-Tipton 2 year-olds in training sale
  • Jamie Ness
  • Michael Trombetta
  • mid-Atlantic horse racing
  • Mike Pons
  • Paget Bennett

Million-dollar horse spurs “great” Fasig-Tipton sale

  • Frank Vespe / 11 years
  • 0
  • 4 min read

The Fasig-Tipton 2-Year-Olds in Training sale which concluded yesterday showed across-the-board gains. Plus, breadowns of each of the mid-Atlantic states.

03
Mar
  • King Leatherbury
  • Larry Murray
  • Maryland horse racing
  • Michael Trombetta
  • National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame
  • Rodney Jenkins

King Leatherbury: Honored, but not optimistic

  • Dan Tordjman / 11 years
  • 3
  • 6 min read

All it took for King Leatherbury to become a Hall of Fame finalist was 56 years and 6,400 wins. He doesn’t think that’s enough – but other trainers disagree.

11
Dec
  • Laurel Park
  • Maryland horse racing
  • Michael Trombetta
  • Souper Lucky
  • T Sizzle

Mike Trombetta scores a hat trick

  • The Biz / 12 years
  • 0
  • 3 min read

Trainer Mike Trombetta’s charges won three times at Laurel Park on Thursday, including the feature and a maiden event.

20
Nov
  • Claudio Gonzalez
  • Hamilton Smith
  • Jamie Ness
  • Laurel Park
  • Maryland horse racing
  • Michael Trombetta

Laurel Park training title up for grabs

  • The Biz / 12 years
  • 0
  • 2 min read

Nearly three-quarters of the way through the Laurel Park meet, the race for the training title remains open, with four trainers within a win of the lead.

06
Nov
  • Alan Foreman
  • Ferris Allen
  • Graham Motion
  • Larry Johnson
  • Maryland Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association
  • Michael Horning
  • Michael Trombetta
  • New York Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association
  • Terry Finley
  • Tim Keefe

New York election riles Mid-Atlantic horsemen

  • The Biz / 12 years
  • 1
  • 6 min read

The contentious battle for the presidency of New York’s horsemen’s group is now causing similar discord among mid-Atlantic horsemen.

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State purchase of Laurel Park approved.

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Of bits and blinkers

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With Muad’dib retired, full brother Duncan.

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