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2011 Maryland-bred champs among notables on Friday’s Black-Eyed Susan card
5/15/2012
Three of the 2011 Maryland-bred champions have been entered on Pimlico’s Friday card on May 18–a seven-stakes extravaganza that kicks off Preakness weekend... (more)

Virginia Gold Cup goes to Incomplete
5/7/12
Three days before he’ll be presented the trophy as the 2011 Maryland-bred champion steeplechaser, Robert Kinsley’s Incomplete captured the four-mile $75,000 Virginia Gold Cup at Great Meadow in The Plains, Va., on Saturday, May 5. Trained by Ann Stewart... (more)

Jazzy Idea plays right notes at Belmont Park
5/7/12
Jazzy Idea let loose in the stretch and took Belmont Park’s $85,000 Thirty Flags Stakes by a widening four lengths on Wednesday, May 2. Owned and trained by Edwin Merryman... (more)

Maryland-bred Twill Do a two-time Maryland Hunt Cup winner
4/30/12
Two Maryland-breds battled to the finish as Twill Do prevailed over Battle Op to win the $75,000 Maryland Hunt Cup on Saturday, April 28 in Glyndon by... (more)

Primonetta Stakes goes to Bold Affair
4/16/12
Charles Reed and Mike Zanella’s homebred filly Bold Affair waited patiently before overtaking her rivals and rolling to a commanding victory in the $75,000 Primonetta Stakes (which included a $25,000 Maryland Bred Fund bonus) on Saturday, April 14 at Pimlico. Last year’s Maryland-bred champion... (more)

Maryland-bred colt is Keeneland 2-year-old sales topper
4/16/12
The only Maryland-bred offered –a chestnut colt bred by Wayne and Juanita Morris –brought a final bid of $700,000 to easily top Keeneland’s April Two-Year-Olds in Training sale... (more)

Skeedattle Stable’s Done Talking Kentucky Derby bound
4/9/12
Skeedattle Stable’s homebred 3-year-old colt Done Talking overcame the 13th post and rallied strongly in the stretch to mow down the leaders in the Grade 3 Illinois Derby at a mile and an eighth on Saturday, April 7... (more)

Sneaky Lil lays claim to Shine Again
4/2/12
In one of the quickest turn arounds an owner could hope for, Sneaky Lil –a $7,500 claimer two weeks earlier–blasted home to win the $50,000 Shine Again Stakes on Saturday, March 31. In the first stakes of the Pimlico spring meet... (more)

Gators N Bears Gone Too Soon
4/2/12
Shamrock Farms’s 12-year-old stallion Gators N Bears died while covering his first mare of the season on March 17 at the Woodbine, Md., farm. Shamrock’s farm manager, Jim Steele, said... (more)

Catch a Thief back in stakes form at Aqueduct
4/2/12
Charles Dimino’s Catch a Thief rallied in the mud to win the $75,000 Plugged Nickle Stakes at Aqueduct on Saturday, March 31. It was the first win for the 2010 Maryland-bred champion in more than a year, and her first stakes win since... (more)

Date Set for MHBA Awards Dinner
3/26/12
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Eighttofasttocatch doubles up at Laurel
3/26/12
Sylvia Heft’s Eighttofasttocatch had to work hard, but survived a pace duel to finish as the repeat winner of the Harrison E. Johnson Memorial Stakes, the closing day feature at Laurel Park on Saturday, March 24... (more)

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