NewsBrief: The headlines
In today’s NewsBrief, headlines from the region’s racing industry.
In today’s NewsBrief, headlines from the region’s racing industry.
Just two of the 201 Breeders’ Cup pre-entrants were bred in the mid-Atlantic, one each in Virginia and Maryland.
Wise Dan, the two-time defending Horse of the Year, has suffered a non-displaced cannon bone fracture and will not compete in the Breeders’ Cup, his owner said.
Everyone know Tom Durkin is a great announcer. But, says Doug McCoy, who’s known him since his early days in racing, he’s an even better friend.
Main Sequence seemed unlikely to accomplish much. Then he found his way to Graham Motion’s Fair Hill barn and won the G1 United Nations. A star was born.
The Breeders’ Cup and Equibase have announced the launch of a new service, providing subscribers free daily email updates on Breeders’ Cup horses and races.
The Breeders’ Cup will visit Keeneland and Del Mar in the coming years, firsts for both of those venues.
Safely Kept, the Maryland-bred filly who won the 1990 Breeders’ Cup Sprint, died yesterday at age 28.
Concern, the first Maryland-bred to win the Breeders’ Cup Classic, is one of two horses to enter the Maryland Thoroughbred Hall of Fame this year.
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