Girvin earned the first Grade 1 of his career – and enhanced the 3-year-old division’s disarray – with a late rally to win the Haskell Sunday at Monmouth.
Rosie Napravnik, the jockey whose journey began in Maryland and took her to the top of her profession, will receive the Special Award of Merit Preakness week.
In this second of our series, we’re thankful for, well, Thanksgiving Day racing!
During the run-up to the Breeders’ Cup, we highlighted some of the weekend’s Midlantic rooting interests. Here’s how they did.
Speedy Bayern showed a new dimension today, ripping off a 7-lengths win in the Grade 1 Haskell and spoiling filly Untapable’s venture into open company.
In the latest Preakness Profile, we look into Bayern, a lightly raced colt with the big-time talent.
Jockey Rosie Napravnik will head to the Preakness aboard Bayern. Yet it’ll be a homecoming minus one familiar face: that of the late trainer Dickie Small.
Training great Dickie Small, who conditioned two members of the Maryland Thoroughbred Hall of Fame, has passed away.
Maryland has long been friendly to apprentice jockeys, and four of them are making a splash at this fall’s Laurel Park meet.
Tricky Hat took the short way home to win the Laurel Turf Cup at Laurel Park.