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Race o’ the Day: Black-Eyed Susan Stakes (G2)
The 88th running of the Grade 2 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes headlines a terrific day of racing on Friday at Pimlico. …
May 18 2012, 6:06am | Visit source ›
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Just three more racing days in the Pimlico 2012 meet, and two of them are going to be stuffed with…
May 17 2012, 11:05am | Visit source ›
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Monday Movie: Ghosts of Preakness Past
For today’s Monday Movie, filmmaker Jeff Krulik has mined the archives — the National Archives, that is. He’s found Preakness…
May 14 2012, 8:10am | Visit source ›
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It wasn’t much of an exacta in yesterday’s Race o’ — 18 bucks and change — but we’ll take it…
May 13 2012, 8:18am | Visit source ›
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No stake at Old Hilltop today — but don’t worry, there’ll be plenty next Friday and Saturday, as Preakness weekend…
May 12 2012, 9:02am | Visit source ›
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After MTHA board decision, anger, and a desire for resolution
In the wake of Monday evening’s surprising decision by the board of directors of the Maryland Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association (MTHA)…
May 9 2012, 6:50am | Visit source ›
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Preakness Memory 1986: A game for dreamers
by Ted Grevelis, Grevelis Racing Stable, LLC As we edge closer to the first Saturday in May thoughts turn to…
May 8 2012, 8:26am | Visit source ›
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Monday Movie: Do You Ever Wager at the Track? You Should Try It Sometime!
The intrepid filmmaker Jeff Krulik and his sometime sidekick, Chris Earnshaw, are at it again in this tale of a…
May 7 2012, 8:34am | Visit source ›
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Yesterday’s Derby wagering — a gruesome affair until the Derby exacta got me out in one piece — served as…
May 6 2012, 10:17am | Visit source ›
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Race o’ the Day: The “Not the Tesio” Stakes
For many years a staple of the spring racing calendar in Maryland, the Federico Tesio Stakes for three year-olds has…
May 5 2012, 7:23am | Visit source ›
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Conditioned claiming races have become a staple of pretty much every racetrack in the last few years, with ever more…
May 4 2012, 9:01am | Visit source ›
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Wait, what’s that? There are races not run in Louisville this week? Well, how ’bout that! Let’s take a gander…
May 3 2012, 8:26am | Visit source ›
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Maryland horsemen vote for change
In a head-bobbing finish, Maryland’s horsemen today voted for change at the group that represents them, the Maryland Thoroughbred Horsemen’s…
April 30 2012, 11:51am | Visit source ›
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Pimlico’s eighth today is a first-level allowance for three and up going six furlongs on the main track. It’s attracted…
April 29 2012, 8:51am | Visit source ›
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It’s not the biggest field of the day or the most interesting handicapping challenge, but today’s ninth race, a money…
April 27 2012, 8:33am | Visit source ›
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Our Opinion: Time for change at the MTHA
Old legal aphorism: When you have the facts, pound the facts. When you don’t have the facts, pound the table.…
April 26 2012, 11:37am | Visit source ›
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Facts and figs: Time’s of the essence for Maryland racing, Part 2
Yesterday in Part 1 (here), we analyzed the statistical decline of Maryland racing. In Part 2, below, we seek some…
April 26 2012, 7:52am | Visit source ›
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Newsmaker Interview, Pt. 2: Larry Johnson and the future of the MTHA
Last week, we presented (here) part 1 of our two-part interview with R. Larry Johnson about his effort to change…
April 23 2012, 12:16pm | Visit source ›
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Monday Movie: A cold day in Laurel, or, I gotta eat my soup
In this week’s Monday Movie, filmmaker Jeff Krulik introduces us to his friend Chris Earnshaw, who, in the course of…
April 23 2012, 7:11am | Visit source ›
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Rainy and cool today, and Pimlico is off the turf and on a sloppy main track. After perfect weather yesterday,…
April 22 2012, 9:08am | Visit source ›
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Race o’ the Day: The Dahlia Stakes
Saturday’s Race o’ is the $75,000 Dahlia Stakes (race 9) for fillies and mares three and up. Weather permitting, they’ll…
April 21 2012, 7:41am | Visit source ›
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Pic of the Week: The Norjac Hall of Fame (sorta)
Last week we told the tale of Norjac (here), the hard-knocking claiming horse that Laurie Asseo claimed in order to…
April 20 2012, 1:23pm | Visit source ›
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Today’s Race o’ the Day is a second-level allowance/optional claiming ($25,000) event for fillies and mares zipping five furlongs on…
April 20 2012, 8:03am | Visit source ›
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Newsmaker Interview: Larry Johnson and the future of the MTHA
As we’ve written previously (here), the Maryland Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association has reached a crossroads. Board member R. Larry Johnson has…
April 19 2012, 8:08am | Visit source ›
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A few minutes with… Hamilton Smith
On April 7, Done Talking, a Skeedattle Associates homebred trained by Hamilton Smith, upset the Illinois Derby (G3) at odds…
April 17 2012, 6:20am | Visit source ›
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Monday Movie: “Don’t leave the pony!”
In racing, there are a million ways for things to go awry. Maybe it’s not your horse’s day; maybe he…
April 16 2012, 7:39am | Visit source ›
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Yesterday’s Race o’ the Day was a good news-bad news proposition. Bad news: My pick for first came in third.…
April 15 2012, 8:19am | Visit source ›
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While I usually handicap the stake on Saturdays, two potentially key players for this afternoon’s Primonetta are on the fence…
April 14 2012, 8:24am | Visit source ›
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Despite the growing problem of trying to fill too many races with too few horses, there’s one type of race…
April 13 2012, 9:02am | Visit source ›
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U.S. Sen. Tom Udall of New Mexico and Kentucky Congressman Ed Whitfield, sponsors of legislation that would provide federal oversight…
April 12 2012, 12:30pm | Visit source ›
