Maryland-based owner Richard Hackerman attended the Preakness and Black-Eyed Susan, as he does every year. Here are his post-mortem observations of the weekend.
The Maryland Racing Commission today adopted an initiative to boost breeding in the state. Advocates endorsed a step they view as crucial, but not everyone is pleased.
by Teresa Genaro No shortage of racing memories have been made at the track they call Old Hilltop. That hill in the infield isn’t around
In this Preakness memory, Nick Hahn recounts the tale of Scrappy T, who nearly brought his local connections from triumph to tragedy in two jumps.
Assistant starter Chris Campitelli and the rest of the gate crew have one of the toughest unsung jobs in the game: making sure a bunch of skittish horses settle and break cleanly. Teresa Genaro gets the lowdown (with video).
This year’s running of the Pimlico Special marks three great anniversaries for the race, including the 75th anniversary of one of racing’s greatest contests: the Seabiscuit-War Admiral match race.
At the pre-Preakness Alibi Breakfast, laughs, lox, and Black-Eyed Susans flow freely. And maybe an alibi or two.
Jockey Ryan Fogelsonger went from new apprentice to riding in the Preakness in remarkably short order. In this video, he tells us about that experience.
With more than a dozen stakes during Preakness weekend, Maryland Jockey Club stakes coordinator Coley Blind and his crew have their hands full to make sure the fields are full. That’s why “trying harder” is something of a mantra for them.
One participant in Saturday’s Md. Hall of Fame induction said he’d have done anything for the horse inducted. Frank Vespe ponders why that would be.
Plenty of good racing news doesn’t make it into the public eye. But one group in Maryland is doing what it can to promote the retraining of Thoroughbreds for other disciplines, and Richard Hackerman reports that they’re making a difference — they did to him.
“I couldn’t stand up. I had to sit down,” said Mike Pons after Orb’s Kentucky Derby win. To understand why, you have to start at the beginning.
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