Horse Racing

Drawing courtesy of Mel @dailyracefunies. To see more of Mel’s work, click here. Saturday June 8th is Closing Day at Pimlico. There’s just two more live racing days left on the Old HIlltop calendar in 2013. The final Fan Friday (June 7th) and Saturday which is also Belmont Stakes Day. So if you haven’t been to [...]

Drawing courtesy of Mel @dailyracefunies. To see more of Mel’s work, click here. It’s officially Belmont Stakes week. Racing’s third leg of Triple Crown takes place on Saturday, June 8th. Even though Derby winner Orb failed to capture the Preakness Stakes, there is still plenty of interest in the $1,000,000 G1 event. As of this [...]

Drawing courtesy of Mel @dailyracefunies. To see more of Mel’s work, click here. BALTIMORE, 05-30-13—Team Valor International’s Cerro (IRE) is named the overwhelming favorite to win Pimlico Race Course’s final stakes race of the spring meeting, the $100,000 Canonero II for 3-year olds, on Saturday afternoon. After racing at Gulfstream Park and Keeneland earlier this [...]

Drawing courtesy of Mel @dailyracefunies. To see more of Mel’s work, click here. Today is Memorial Day. The day to set aside for all Americans to remember those men and women who bravely served and gave their lives defending our country. Too often we treat a national holiday as simply a day off from work, [...]

Drawing courtesy of Mel @dailyracefunies. To see more of Mel’s work, click here. As the field loaded into the gate for Pimlico’s 1st race on Saturday, track announcer Dave Rodman referred to #4 – Spicer Cub as “the Youtube sensation”. That’s because during the 4-year-old geldings most recent race, a 1 1/16 mile contest, he [...]

Drawing courtesy of Mel @dailyracefunies. To see more of Mel’s work, click here. In a press conference less than 24 hours after the fourth largest crowd in Preakness history witnessed Oxbow’s victory in the 138th running of the Preakness Stakes, Maryland Jockey Club CEO, Tom Chuckas provided plenty of information. The best news was that [...]

Drawing courtesy of Mel @dailyracefunies. To see more of Mel’s work, click here. The Good: The Preakness is back! The fourth largest crowd (117,203) in Preakness history discounted the possibility of rain showers in return for the best entertainment value of the year. Fans from the Grandstand rushed the Infield when Macklemore and Ryan Lewis [...]

Oxbow jockey joined Glenn and Thyrl Monday on “The Handoff” on WNST…