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Like Father, Like Son: The Preakness Eighteen

POSTED: May 11, 2024

Curlin winning the 2007 Preakness. (Jim McCue for Maryland Jockey Club) By Maribeth Kalinich Eighteen sires and sons have won the Preakness including sire-son Triple...

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Finalists for George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award

POSTED: December 29, 2021

Bravo, Corbett, Leparoux, Prescott & Thornton Face Nationwide Vote Of Their Peers; Winner To Be Announced In February ARCADIA, Calif. – Santa Anita Park has announced...

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Soaring Like a Pegasus – Man o’ War’s Immortality 

POSTED: December 18, 2021

Next for your enjoyment in our “Author’s Corner” series is consummate story-teller Dorothy Ours’ double scoop of the immortal champion Man o’ War and his...

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Havre de Grace: The Story of a Small Town, a Racetrack, and The Mob

POSTED: April 12, 2021

In a little Maryland town beside the Chesapeake Bay there once stood a stylish racetrack that showcased renowned stables, champion trainers and legendary horses. Named...

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The Race of the Century - According to the Computers

POSTED: May 3, 2020

Photo Credit: NBC Sports Saturday afternoon. NBC punished us with pre-race coverage of a horse race we'd already seen (Really, NBC? That cost  you less...

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Secretariat Made 7-2 Favorite in Kentucky Derby: Triple Crown Showdown

POSTED: April 29, 2020

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Wednesday, April 29, 2020) – Secretariat, considered by many as the most talented and iconic Thoroughbred to have raced in America, has been...

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From Stately Affairs To Supertracks

POSTED: September 7, 2019

From Stately Affairs To Super-tracks By MB Kalinich  Jerome Park (1866), Rockingham (1906), Bowie (1914), Ak-Sar-ben (1919), Beulah (1923), Longacres (1933), Atlantic City (1946) ......

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Second Place is the First: Triple Crown Runner Ups

POSTED: January 24, 2019

We've heard the cliches before. Runner ups. Second fiddle. Second best. Bridesmaid. Second place is the first loser. In the Sport of Kings, and The...

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