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22
Apr
  • Maryland horse racing
  • Maryland Jockey Club
  • Stronach Group
  • Tim Ritvo

Tim Ritvo guest lectures at U-Maryland

  • The Biz / 10 years
  • 1
  • 3 min read

Stronach Group COO Tim Ritvo lectured earlier this week in a “Gambling in the new millennium” class at the University of Maryland.

19
Feb
  • Bruce Quade
  • Delegate Jay Walker
  • Laurel Park
  • Maryland horse racing
  • Maryland International
  • Tim Ritvo

Bill would revitalize the DC International

  • Frank Vespe / 10 years
  • 1
  • 4 min read

The long-dormant and much-missed DC International would return if a bill proposed by Del. Jay Walker in the Maryland legislature passes.

21
Nov
  • Bruce Quade
  • Laurel Park
  • Maryland horse racing
  • Stronach Group
  • Tim Ritvo

Crowd comes out for Laurel Park town hall

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

A crowd estimated to be near 400 people attended Friday’s town hall meeting at Laurel Park to discuss the future of Maryland racing.

17
Nov
  • Federico Tesio S.
  • John McDaniel
  • Maryland horse racing
  • Maryland Jockey Injury Compensation Fund
  • Tim Ritvo
  • Weber City Miss S.

Notes from the Maryland Racing Commission

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

Among the Maryland Racing Commission’s decisions today: approving two stakes as “Win and You’re In” races for the Preakness and Black-Eyed Susan.

10
Nov
  • Maryland horse racing
  • Maryland Jockey Club
  • Maryland Racing Commission
  • Tim Ritvo

“Town hall” to highlight busy Maryland week

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

The Maryland Jockey Club will hold a town hall meeting next week at Laurel Park — which would have been virtually inconceivable here a few years ago.

19
Oct
  • Jim Steele
  • Laurel Park
  • Maryland horse racing
  • Maryland Million
  • Maryland Million 2015
  • Tim Ritvo

Maryland Million “full and happening”

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

Handle jumped, the crowd was big, and everybody but (perhaps) King Leatherbury had a good time at Saturday’s Maryland Million at Laurel Park.

09
Jun
  • Maryland horse racing
  • Maryland Jockey Club
  • Pimlico
  • Sal Sinatra
  • Tim Ritvo

QuickTake: Momentum and Pimlico’s handle rise

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

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?

22
May
  • J. Sargeant Reynolds Jr.
  • Maryland Jockey Club
  • Preakness
  • Sal Sinatra
  • Tim Ritvo
  • Virginia horse racing
  • Virginia Racing Commission

Questions – but few answers – in Virginia’s season of change

  • Nick Hahn / 11 years
  • 0
  • 6 min read

For racing and breeding in Virginia and Maryland, only one thing about the future is certain: the only way forward is change.

15
May
  • Bruce Quade
  • Cricket Goodall
  • Ferris Allen
  • Maryland Horse Breeders Association
  • Maryland horse racing
  • Maryland Jockey Club
  • Maryland Racing Commission
  • Maryland Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association
  • Pimlico
  • Sal Sinatra
  • Tim Ritvo

In Maryland, progress and a complicated future

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

Maryland’s Throughbred industry has made real strides in recent years. But the coming years pose complicated challenges of their own.

22
Apr
  • Bruce Quade
  • Lady Vivien
  • Maryland horse racing
  • Maryland Jockey Club
  • Maryland Racing Commission
  • stanozolol
  • Tim Ritvo

Maryland Racing Commission to undertake medication “self-assessment”

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

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.

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