The Maryland Jockey Club will offer a future wager on the Preakness Stakes after receiving approval Tuesday from the state Racing Commission.
After hearing from various stakeholders, the Maryland Racing Commission permitted Laurel Park to resume racing this Thursday.
Laurel Park will offer its first baby races of 2020 — Lasix-free — as extras for its August 7 card, but the fate of a Lasix study was less clear.
The Maryland Racing Commission Thursday approved banning Lasix in 2-year-old races and graded stakes, just weeks after a contentious blowup over those issues.
The agreement will provide Maryland-breds about 9.4 percent of the total 2018 purse account for each of the next five years.
A state bill would authorize the Maryland Racing Commission to join a proposed interstate anti-doping compact to harmonize state drug rules.
We asked folks in Maryland racing — breeders, trainers, executives, advocates — what was on their wishlist for the industry in 2018.
Louis Merryman and Drs. Tom and Brooke Bowman, the partners in Heritage Stallions, have announced they will split into two breeding operations.
The state’s Racing Commission announced the formation of an ad hoc committee to dig into the data to ensure the industry maintains its momentum in the years to come.
In a deja vu moment, the Maryland Racing Commission today adopted drug penalties it thought it had enacted two years ago.