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We may not yet be sure of when “Maryland, My Maryland” will ring out at Pimlico this year – and whether there will be an “anointed throng” in the stands to hear it (verse 5 of James Ryder Randall’s anthem to the seventh state) – but we can be certain that 37 years ago the Preakness was the ultimate victory for the home team.
Had the 146th Kentucky Derby been run as scheduled Saturday, it would have marked the 16th time the race was on May 2.
For someone who has been to 52 of the last 54 Kentucky Derbies, Billy Reed’s best story might be about one he missed.
Domain’s Rap held on to win a 2-year-old maiden special weight Oct. 27, 2018 at Hawthorne Park. The win came in his second start and although this was the beginning of his race career, little did anyone know the race would shape his future off the track years later.
Back in 1990, I only occasionally wrote about horse racing. Mainly, it was high-school sports – football, basketball, wrestling, baseball, softball, whatever was in season, plus some semi-pro baseball (the Cecil Johnies were pretty strong) – while working for the Cecil Whig newspaper.
Dave Lynett didn’t need an alarm clock Wednesday morning and he followed much of his usual springtime routine even though the coronavirus crisis put a significant crimp on the biggest part.
Chester and Mary Broman, Linda Rice and Manny Franco earned top honors from the New York Thoroughbred Breeders Inc. for stellar 2019 seasons. Check out our profiles of each divisional champion.
The team from Spendthrift Farm felt fairly optimistic heading into the 2015 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga New York-bred yearling sale, even though the Kentucky operation dispatched just one member of that year’s crop to the strongest regional market in the United States.
Rest assured that the story of a racehorse, almost any racehorse, meanders like an old Adirondack creek. And Gucci Factor’s goes back to a field in Kentucky in 1993 with the purchase of Satin Promise by Jeff Morris from Roy Coffey.
Make way Fourstar Crook, Lubash, King Kreesa, Kharafa and the like of ultra-consistent turf runners produced by the New York breeding program, there’s a new member of the club who took it up another level in 2019.
