In May, the Maryland Racing Commission approved recommendations from its Breeding Industry Task Force addressing bonuses for breeders, owners and stallions – all aimed at bolstering the state’s Thoroughbred breeding industry.
Maryland’s slot machines have been more productive than state gaming officials anticipated, exceeding projected gross revenues of $498 million with a month left in the fiscal year.
As Pimlico Race Course ended its season on Saturday, June 8, owner PTK LLC, trainer Juan Vasquez and jockey Sheldon Russell called the vaunted spring meet a title-winning success, and veteran oddsmaker Frank Carulli called it a day.
by Teresa Genaro
Charles “Chip” Reed and Mike Zanella first met on a gambling trip organized by a mutual friend.
The second annual MidAtlantic Horse Rescue All Thoroughbred Benefit Horse Show, held Saturday, June 1 at Heavenly Waters Park in Bel Air was “Super,” said MAHR co-founder and executive director Beverly Strauss. “We had even more entries than last year and ran til dark.”
The Maryland Horse Breeders Association (MHBA) membership has selected four new members and one incumbent to the Board of Directors, as announced at the annual meeting held in the Vista Room at the Timonium Fairgrounds in Timonium on Wednesday, May 22.
Fasig-Tipton Midlantic's smaller and more select sale of 2-year-olds in training, held over two days, starting Monday, May 20, saw a record average and a substantial rise in median from the previous year for 249 juveniles sold.
The Maryland Racing Commission today voted by a 5-2 margin to implement a program to boost the state's beleaguered breeding industry, a step several stakeholders described as crucial to the future of that industry.
Looking “as good as ever as a 7-year-old,” according to breeder/owner/trainer King T. Leatherbury, Ben’s Cat recorded his 16th stakes win with a calculated move in the $100,000 Jim McKay Turf Sprint over the firm Pimlico turf on Friday, May 17.
Night Officer, a half-brother to top sprinter Delaunay, recorded his first stakes win when rallying for a neck victory in Belmont Park’s $85,000 Around the Cape Stakes on Thursday, May 16. Sent off as the 4-1 second choice in the field of seven, the 5-year-old bay horse zipped six furlongs over the inner turf course in 1:07.92.
Award Wanted picked up her first stakes win on Saturday, Jan. 21 at Laurel Park, winning the Geisha with a rail-skimming rally.
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