Officials, including a former Maryland trainer, with the company whose product got trainer Wayne Potts suspended say they have no relationship with Potts.
It was by disqualification – but it was still the first stakes win, the first graded stakes win, and a win at Saratoga for Laurel-based trainer Wayne Potts.
The speedy American Sailor slipped away to a big lead early and held off the late runners to beat five stakes winners in Monday’s Laurel Park feature.
Returning to riding after a horrific injury has been, jockey Jenn Miller says, “like coming back home.”
Trainer Wayne Potts has won nearly 400 races in his career, mostly with claiming horses. But changes in the industry have led him to begin altering his barn’s focus.
The racing community has banded together to help injured rider Jenn Miller, but there’s still a long road ahead.
With increased purses, a stakes race — and of course a Ferris wheel — hopes are high for the rejuvenated Timonium race meet which kicks off Friday.
The West Virginia Racing Commission has rescinded seven naproxen positives incurred at Charles Town because of differing screening levels employed by different labs.
A spate of naproxen positives involving shippers to Charles Town has regional horsemen suspecting contamination even as the Racing Commission investigates
Claiming activity in the mid-Atlantic was down 15 percent in 2016 versus the prior year after an essentially flat December.