Attendance at Saturday’s Preakness was about half of what it had been before the pandemic. Why? Teresa Genaro asked some who came and some who didn’t.
On a Pimlico weekend celebrating high-end horses, Can the Queen, a modest Maryland-bred who almost didn’t get to the races, scored one for the home team.
Deborah Greene cracks up at the idea that she always knew that she’d own racehorses. How could you imagine one like Luna Belle?
In her short tenure as Maryland Jockey Club stakes coordinator, 29-year-old Trish Bowman had to navigate a career’s worth of challenges.
Hello Beautiful dominated in the Maryland Million Distaff to become just the seventh runner to win three times in the Maryland Million.
Pennsylvania-bred Beren is named for a hero of fantasy literature, and co-owner-breeder Chris Feifarek hopes his horse can be a hero of a different sort.
Pennsylvania-bred Caravel won the G3 Caress at Saratoga. in a bittersweet last start for breeder-owner-trainer Lizzie Merryman.
Maryland Brando was a flashy first-out winner at Delaware Park for Gary Contessa and Bell Gable Stable. Will he, like his namesake, hope to be a contender?
To his humans, Dinosaur Ben wasn’t just another horse. That’s why saying goodbye — twice, in a sense — was so hard.
“Pony girl” Christine Higgs isn’t much used to the spotlight, but she grabbed national attention at the Preakness when she helped calm an antsy Rombauer.