Yesterday and today: Midlantic stakes winners
The weekend’s Midlantic stakes winners.
The weekend’s Midlantic stakes winners.
Longtime mid-Atlantic stalwart Mario Pino will receive NYRA’s Mike Venezia Memorial Award for sportsmanship and citizenship.
A nationwide fundraiser for the PDJF for disabled jockeys involving some two dozen tracks raised $40,000 for the cause.
Why’d Fasig-Tipton’s two-year-old sale rally strongly in the second day? Observers offered their thoughts, plus the ongoing concerns with the middle and lower market.
Buoyed by a $1 million Uncle Mo filly, the Fasig-Tipton 2-year-old sale rebounded strongly today to set a record for gross sales.
Despite a loss in the Grade 1 Preakness, voters in the latest NTRA poll left Nyquist in the top spot for three-year-olds, while California Chrome remains first for older horses.
The first day of the two-day Fasig-Tipton two-year-old sale saw declines versus the prior year.
The growing sense of momentum in Maryland and throughout the mid-Atlantic may bolster this week’s Fasig-Tipton 2-year-old sale, market participants said.
Ten years after Barbaro broke down in the Preakness and later succumbed to laminitis, fighting that disease remains a tricky, uncertain undertaking.
Yesterday and Today highlights the best of yesterday’s mid-Atlantic racing and looks ahead to today’s action.