After the event's postponement in 2020, the Thoroughbred Makeover and National Symposium, presented by Thoroughbred Charities of America (TCA), will take place Oct. 12-17 at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Ky. Maryland is well-represented this year with 26 Maryland-breds entered to compete in a variety of disciplines.
According to The Jockey Club’s recently released 2020 Breeding Statistics, Maryland ranked sixth among the top-10 states and provinces with the most mares covered by Maryland stallions in 2020, while showing a 3.6 percent increase in the number of live foals by those stallions in 2021 when compared to 2020.
In a historic renewal of the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Fall Yearlings sale, where new all-time sale records were set for the average and median, 16 yearlings sold for six-figures, 11 of which were Maryland-breds, on Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 4-5, at the sales pavilion in Timonium, Md.
Korea Racing Authority’s Knicks Go proved himself once again as he took on a talented field in the $400,000 Lukas Classic Stakes-G3, for 3-year-olds and up, and led gate-to-wire to win by four lengths at Churchill Downs on Saturday, Oct. 2.
Cash is King LLC and LC Racing LLC’s Murph ran away down the stretch to record her first career victory in the $100,000 Small Wonder Stakes on Delaware Park’s Owners’ Day card on Saturday, Sept. 25.
Lucky 7 Stables’ Street Lute was back in the winner’s circle on Delaware Park’s Owners’ Day as she caught the leaders down the stretch and passed them with ease to win the $100,000 Tax Free Shopping Distaff Stakes for Delaware-bred or certified fillies and mares (3 and up) by three-quarters of a length on Saturday, Sept. 25.
Non Stop Stable’s Tappin Cat showed impressive form as he won his third race in a row, and his first stakes, in the $75,000 DTHA Governors Day Handicap on Saturday, Sept. 25 at Delaware Park on Owners’ Day.
Whereshetoldmetogo loves Delaware Park. The Brittany Russell trainee has never been worse than second in seven starts at the Wilmington-area track, four of them stakes. His most recent victory, the $100,000 New Castle Stakes for Delaware-bred or certified runners on Saturday, Sept. 25 at Delaware Park on the Owners’ Day program, was one of his most exciting yet in a career of exciting finishes.
A colt by Speightstown out of Southampton Way, purchased by Alex and JoAnn Lieblong for $300,000, topped the nine Maryland-breds sold Sept. 13-24 at the Keeneland September Yearling sale in Lexington, Ky. The group brought a combined gross of $1,030,000, for an average price of $114,444, and a median of $70,000.
The first starter for freshman sire Editorial became his first winner when My Thoughts scored at Delaware Park on Sept. 22.
Brittany Russell trainee Hello Beautiful ran her heart out, like she always does, as she delivered a tremendous gate-to-wire victory in the $100,000 Weathervane Stakes, for fillies and mares, 3 & up, to secure her seventh career stakes win by 10 1/4 lengths at Laurel Park on Saturday, Sept. 18.
Fasig-Tipton’s Midlantic Two-Year-Olds in Training sale, which saw records fall across the board, featured a strong group of Maryland-breds, with four selling for six figures over the two-day sale held Monday and Tuesday, May 23 and 24, in Timonium. A $450,000 bay filly by Nyquist, purchased by Oracle Bloodstock, agent, was the highest-selling Maryland-bred of the sale.
Read more ...West Point Thoroughbreds and Marvin Delfiner’s Jaxon Traveler came out swinging in his return to Pimlico on Preakness Day, securing his first graded stakes victory in the $150,000 Maryland Sprint Stakes-G3 on Saturday, May 21.
Read more ...Joanne Shankle’s Can the Queen notched one for the home team on Black-Eyed Susan Day with a front-running score in the five-furlong The Very One Stakes, for fillies and mares, 3 & up, on Friday, May 20 at Pimlico.
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