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At last. The March edition of Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred magazine hit shelves, mailboxes and device screens last week. The 180-pager is packed with features, news, updates and statistics on the Thoroughbred industries in Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia plus a regional auction section. Steeplechaser Snap Decision graces the … Read more

Once more. Golden Miller…Arkle…Best Mate…Kauto Star. Today, Galopin Des Champs tries to cross into the ethereal. The French-bred, Irish-trained 9-year-old seeks his third consecutive win in the Boodles Cheltenham Gold Cup. Trained by Willie Mullins and ridden by Paul Townend, Galopin Des Champs is the 4/7 favorite to achieve jump racing’s ultimate hat trick. Hats … Read more

Michael O’Sullivan guided Marine Nationale and Jazzy Matty to wins at the Cheltenham Festival in 2023. A rising phenom, a respected young man, at the cusp of a burgeoning career, a beautiful life. Two years later, those two horses won again at Cheltenham and all we could do is look at the sky and wonder … Read more

The first gasp. The 2023 Champion Hurdle winner Constitution Hill finally did what he had been threatening to do and stepped long and low at the fourth hurdle, crashing to the ground. His first fall. His first loss. The second gasp. The 2024 Champion Hurdle winner State Man grinding toward the last hurdle, the race … Read more

It’s Cheltenham. Day 1. The beginning of the best week of jump racing. Anytime. Anywhere. Our week kicked off early with a win at Taunton. Hey, who said they didn’t like a five-day Festival… Race 1. 9:20 a.m. ET. The Sky Bet Supreme Novices’ Hurdle. The Michael O’Sullivan Memorial. Grade 1. 2 miles, 87 yards. … Read more

The National Museum of Racing’s Hall of Fame Nominating Committee unveiled a sizable ballot of finalists for induction in 2025 Thursday. Eight racehorses, seven trainers and one jockey account for the 16 finalists on the 2025 Hall of Fame ballot, as chosen by the Nominating Committee. The finalists are racehorses Blind Luck, Game On Dude, … Read more

The National Thoroughbred Racing Association, Daily Racing Form, and the National Turf Writers and Broadcasters announced Thursday night that the filly Thorpedo Anna, who won six of seven races last year including the Longines Kentucky Oaks (G1), was named the 2024 Horse of the Year at the 54th annual Resolute Racing Eclipse Awards ceremony, presented by John Deere, Keeneland, The Jockey Club and … Read more

Who would trade these 12 months? A second Eclipse Award for writing in January 2024, recognition from your peers with the National Turf Writers and Broadcasters’ Walter Haight Award for career excellence in Turf writing in November and a third Eclipse Award for writing in early 2025? Certainly not Sean Clancy. That’s the situation Clancy … Read more

Kenny McPeek jumped up from a front-row box and wound his arm around and around like a hand on a cartoon clock. Todd Pletcher dropped his binoculars, stood up from a fifth-row box, leaned over the ledge and pumped his fist. Two grown men – 119 years, 7,802 wins and 31,365 losses between them – … Read more

And that’s that. The 2024 National Steeplechase Association season took its last jump, navigated its last turn and closed the last page of its book Saturday in Aiken, S.C. The seven-race card at the Aiken Steeplechase wrapped up a racing calendar that began in the same place in March and weaved its way up – and … Read more