Getting new fans to an old sport conducted in an old facility — Pimlico — is a challenge Tom Chuckas faces every spring. Fortunately, an old race, the Preakness, gives him a head start.
New medication rules will give states in the mid-Atlantic region uniform medication policies. But some horsemen worry whether testing and penalty guidelines will accomplish their aims.
Jockey Samantha Colvin has been a runner and a swimmer, a student and a soldier. Now she’s aiming to become a successful jockey. She’s taken an unusual path, but she hopes it leads where she wants to go.
Frank Carulli’s 11-year stint as the Maryland Jockey Club’s linemaker and on-air handicapper came to an end on Saturday, with plenty of stories and gifts.
Linemaker and on-air handicapper Frank Carulli’s leaving with laughter as he heads for Las Vegas after a dozen years at Laurel and Pimlico.
Michael and Lynn Horvath knew you shouldn’t fall in love with a racehorse. But they did it anyway — to their own and the now-retired Thoroughbred’s great benefit.
Jockey Ryan Fogelsonger has ridden paupers and princes (and princesses) on the Maryland racing scene, and in this interview he talks about how he started and why he’s not quite willing to give up the game, despite a laundry list of injuries.
Rock N’ Bid nearly played Secretariat on the big screen. These days, says his former owner, the retired Thoroughbred is a star of a different sort.
Nick Hahn’s Turf 10 for May 30 lists the top 10 turf three year-olds in the country — four of whom are headed to Saturday’s Penn Mile.
Ted Black turns his handicapping eye to Pimlico, Monmouth, and Charles Town for Saturday’s featured races.
Longtime Maryland and Virginia track announcer Dave Rodman has seen — and called — everything from the sublime to the ridiculous in his 20 years on the local racing scene.
Jeff Krulik’s wandering lens finds Blue the Preakness pony — who escorted I’ll Have Another to last year’s big race — racing secretary Georganne Hale, and others on the Pimlico backside.
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