Grade 1-winning New York-based trainer Rick Violette will judge the 84th annual Maryland Horse Breeders Association Yearling Show. Open to all yearlings eligible for Maryland-bred registration, the show will be held at the Maryland State Fairgrounds’ Horse Show Ring in Timonium on Sunday, June 24. Entries close Friday, June 1.
The top earners for the $40,000 MHBA Yearling Show Purse Premium, a bonus award from the Maryland-bred Fund presented to the highest-earning 2 and 3-year-olds shown at the annual MHBA yearling show, have been tabulated. Every yearling shown, regardless of class standing, is eligible for these cash awards which are split and distributed twice-$20,000 divided among the exhibitors of the four show contestants who earn the most money at 2 and another $20,000 divided among the exhibitors of the four highest-earning at 3. All earnings are verifiable by The Jockey Club.
Robert T. Manfuso and Katharine Voss’s homebred colt by Noble Mission (GB) out of Island Bound, by Speightstown, was Eclipse Award-winning trainer Dale Romans’ pick for Grand Champion at the 83rd annual Maryland Horse Breeders Association’s Maryland-bred yearling show, held on Sunday, June 25 at the Timonium Fairgrounds horse show ring in Timonium, Md.
Kentucky Derby-winning trainer John Servis, who sent out Maryland-bred Yearling Show graduate Cathryn Sophia to win this year’s $1 million Kentucky Oaks-G1, will judge the 82nd annual Maryland Horse Breeders Association Yearling Show. Open to all yearlings eligible for Maryland-bred registration, the show will be held at the Maryland State Fairgrounds’ Horse Show Ring in Timonium on Sunday, June 26.
The top earners for the $40,000 MHBA Yearling Show Purse Premium, a bonus award from the Maryland-bred Fund presented to the highest-earning 2 and 3-year-olds shown at the annual MHBA yearling show, have been tabulated.
For the third time in the past five years a yearling exhibited by Robert T. Manfuso and Katharine M. Voss was selected as champion of the Maryland Horse Breeders Association’s Maryland-bred yearling show, held for the 81st time on Sunday, June 28 at the Timonium Fairgrounds horse show ring in Timonium, Md. The three-win feat marks the retirement of the Foxharbor Farm Challenge Trophy, which has been presented to the owner of the champion yearling since 2011.
Twenty six Hall of Fame trainers are counted among the past judges of the MHBA Yearling Show. Many other judges can count champions among their choices. Who were the judges, and which yearling did they pick?
The MHBA is thrilled to have Donato Lanni as this year's Yearling Show Judge!
Tickets are still available for the Yearling Show Crab Feast, to be held this year on Saturday, June 27 starting at 6 p.m. at Bonita Farm in Darlington, Md.
Bloodstock agent Donato Lanni, whose auction selections include champion Lookin At Lucky, Breeders’ Cup Classic-G1 winner Bayern and 2015 Grade 1-winning 3-year-old Dortmund, will judge the 81st annual Maryland Horse Breeders Association Yearling Show.
In case you missed it, here is WJZ's coverage of the recently released AHC Economic Impact study for Maryland.
For more than 250 years, horses have played a vital role in Maryland’s culture, spirit and history, going back to 1743, when the Maryland Jockey Club — the oldest sporting organization in North America — was chartered.
Read executive director Cricket Goodall's Op-Ed in The Baltimore Sun here
Home to more than 100,000 horses, Maryland ranks No. 1 in terms of horses per square mile
Baltimore, Md. (May 14, 2018) – The 2018 Economic Impact Study produced by the American Horse Council confirms that Maryland’s horse industry adds more than $1.3 billion to Maryland’s economy. The report found that the horse industry total employment impact is more than 21,000 jobs, including a more than $500 million impact from the horse racing sector alone.
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