BALTIMORE, 04-14-13–-It did not make SportsCenter’s Top 10 plays, but #12 - Spicer Cub’s eventful trip in Saturday’s 11th at Pimlico Race Course has gone viral and is generating interest outside of horse racing circles. The Mary Eppler trainee took the early lead but bolted midway on the far turn before jockey Xavier Perez was able [...]

This past weekend there were two Kentucky Derby prep races. The Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland race course and the Arkansas Derby at Oaklawn Park. Each of these races is the premier event for the respective tracks. As the Kentucky Derby is to Churchill Downs, as the Preakness is to Pimlico and the Belmont Stakes [...]

Three weeks from Saturday is the 139th running of the Kentucky Derby and there are only a few more races between now and then for 3 year olds to crack into the Top 20 of the Derby Points System List. The Derby is limited to twenty (20) starters, and the pecking order is based on [...]

NOTE: NO TURF RACES on FRIDAY due to weather conditions! ALL What happened to Spring in B’more?! During opening week at Old Hilltop there was still a chill in the air as old man winter wasn’t ready to leave town just yet. Well, this week spring was abruptly pre-empted by a preview of the Summer [...]

With just three (3) weeks until the 139th running of the Kentucky Derby, it appears that a full field of 20 will be entered. In the initial year of the Derby Point system determining the pecking order (instead of graded stakes earnings) as to who gets in and who’s left out, about 15 3-year-olds have secured [...]