The May 18 renewal of the Victoria Mile (G1) for fillies and mares at Tokyo Racecourse, a “Win and You’re In” for the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf (G1T), could be seen as a showdown between Ascoli Piceno and Stellenbosch. The 4-year-old fillies’ rivalry goes back to their 2-year-old season when Ascoli Piceno defeated…
Patrons arriving May 16 at Pimlico Race Course for the Black-Eyed Susan Stakes (G3) were greeted with sunny skies Friday morning, a change from earlier in the week when rain soaked the Baltimore area. There is a 40% chance of rain Friday according to the Weather Channel, with a high of 82 degrees but it’s not…
Today, the National Thoroughbred League (NTL) reported that the opening event of its third season—the NTL Pimlico Cup generated record returns, both in terms of attendance and betting totals. With a crowd of more than 5,500 on hand in support of Baltimore Community Day, in partnership with Lamar Jackson’s Forever Dreamers Foundation, Pimlico Race Course…
For all of the wet weather and gloomy skies at Pimlico Race Course this week, the winds of change have been swirling in Maryland for much longer than a week or even a year. Alan Foreman, a longtime Maryland racing leader and an architect of the Maryland redevelopment plan, remembers talking about substantive plans to…
The last few editions of the Preakness Stakes (G1) have not been kind to Kentucky Derby (G1) winners and runners, but because this recent trend goes against a two-decade stretch of success for such runners, it’s unclear if something has changed or this is just an oddity. No Derby starter has won the Preakness since…
Ontario Racing is encouraging those that choose to bet on horse racing to consider the critical importance of wagering on the races conducted in Ontario. Betting on Ontario races in Ontario is essential for supporting some 30,000 jobs in the province connected to the horse racing sector, which translates into about 23,000 full-time equivalent jobs….
With the best of the early developing 3-year-old fillies having raced two weeks ago in the Kentucky Oaks (G1), the $300,000 George E. Mitchell Black-Eyed Susan Stakes (G2) at Pimlico Race Course May 16 offers nine rising sophomores their chance to prove they belong in the top races later this summer. One of the fillies on the…
In a 4-3 vote during a contentious May 15 meeting in Sacramento, Calif., the California Horse Racing Board denied awarding race dates for the Humboldt County Fair at Ferndale in Northern California. Thoroughbred racing in California is consolidated in the southern part of the state. Last month, the CHRB rejected a request from the Alameda County…
There’s only one way that Maryland-born and raised Nik Juarez’s homecoming this week could be any better. “It’s monumental to be at Pimlico,” the 31-year-old jockey and fourth-generation horseman said. “One, to ride the Preakness. But let’s win it.” American Promise , upon whom Juarez won the Virginia Derby, is Juarez’s first mount in his home…
The lack of entries has prompted officials at Finger Lakes Gaming & Racetrack to cancel live racing for Tuesday, May 20. Due to the lingering impacts of a long winter, combined with a wet spring, trainers had limited training opportunities to fully prepare their horses for the season. As the amount of fit and available…
