The recommended increases in breeder bonuses, presented at today's Maryland Racing Commission meeting by the Maryland Fund Advisory Committee, were passed for the period of January 1 through June 30, ...

Maryland-bred 2024 Horse of the Year Post Time (New Maryland Jockey Club Photo by Jerry Dzierwinski) Post Time, owned by Ellen Charles and trained by Brittany Russell leads the list of Maryland-bred ...

Frank Stronach (left) chairman of MI Developments waits for the start of the Dec. 21st meeting of the Maryland Racing Commission at Laurel Park (WBAL Photo by Robert Lang) The chairman of the Canadian ...

BALTIMORE — After decades of false hopes and dashed dreams, sectarian squabbles and torturous twists, 2025 is the year when Maryland thoroughbred racing will step into its future. Most obviously to ...

Maryland’s thoroughbred racetracks lost record amounts of money in 2008 and 2009, in a sign that even the coveted Preakness Stakes is no longer enough to hold the state’s racing industry together.

Just four years ago, Joe De Francis, the majority owner of Maryland's two main thoroughbred racetracks, Pimlico Race Course and Laurel Park, welcomed Leucadia National Corp. with open arms when the ...