When the 30th running of the $1 million Jim McKay Maryland Million is celebrated Saturday, it will serve in many ways as a coming-out party for the new Laurel Park. In the past eight months, the Maryland Jockey Club has spent approximately $14 million in
“She leaves Monday,” said Mandella, who along with other onlookers had a difficult time tracking the mare Thursday due to poor lighting conditions. “I got her in 1:01 and three (for five furlongs), but I couldn’t see…I could see her break off clearly but
Vitali confirmed that he will indeed enter Valid, who most recently captured Gulfstream’s seven-furlong Groomstick Stakes Sept. 26 and the Philip Iselin Stakes (G3) at Monmouth on Aug. 30, in the $1 million Dirt Mile, a race Vitali had targeted last year
Having recorded tremendous early success with stallions Allen’s Prospect and Malibu Moon in the past, Country Life Farm is counting on Friesan Fire to carry on its tradition of first-crop excellence. Sent off as the post time favorite in the 2009 Kentucky
With Bob Baffert overseeing the drill from Santa Anita’s box seat area near the finish line, American Pharoah, with Martin Garcia up, galloped straight off from the quarter mile chute and was set down approaching the five furlong pole, well behind stablem
Five-year-old mare Bee A Magician is a two-time Breeders Crown champion, having claimed trophies at ages 3 and 4, while gelding Pinkman and filly Mission Brief both were Crown winners last season as 2-year-olds. Pinkman is No. 2 in the current Hambletonia
The 5-year-old son of Great Notion, who pulled off a half-length upset over living legend Ben’s Cat in the Maryland Million Turf last year, will not be defending his title in the mile grass stakes Saturday. Instead, he will seek to add to his Maryland Mil
Riding since 1988, Bravo, 44, is enjoying his best year in a decade. He is 13th in North American earnings with $7,458,828, within striking distance of breaking his career mark of $8,169,405 for a single season set in 2004. On May 23 at Monmouth, Bravo be
Going out at approximately 6:30 a.m. with exercise rider Donna McMullen aboard, the 4-year-old A. P. Indy ridgling went from the half-mile pole and was caught by New York Racing Association clockers in splits of :25 and :48 3/5, galloping out in 1:13 1/5
The findings were similar to those reported in Dr. Peterson’s Composition and Performance Testing review, conducted just before the start of Keeneland’s 2015 Fall Meet. Dr. Peterson performs a review of Keeneland’s dirt and turf surfaces prior to the star
