Closing Weekend Attracts 143 Nominations to Pimlico Stakes
Four $100,000 Stakes, Two Each on Dirt & Turf, Saturday Sept. 24 Jockey Dylan Davis Rides Pair of Juvenile Maiden Winners Sunday MSW for 2-Year-Olds Highlights Return of Live Racing Friday BALTIMORE – A total of 143 nominations were made to a quartet of $100,000 stakes, two each on dirt and turf, on a Saturday, […]
Set Piece Makes Winning Return in $200,000 BWI Turf Cup
Wins Second Straight Graded Grass Stakes over Pimlico Course BALTIMORE – Juddmonte multiple graded-stakes winning homebred Set Piece, returning to the site of his most recent victory, duplicated the effort four months later with a last-to-first 1 1/2-length victory in Saturday’s $200,000 Baltimore-Washington International Turf Cup (G3) at historic Pimlico Race Course. The 14th running […]
In a Hurry Gets Elusive Stakes Win in $100,000 All Along
Sibelius Records First Stakes Win in $100,000 Lite the Fuse Swayin to and Fro Captures $75,000 Shine Again BALTIMORE – Given a masterful ride by jockey Forest Boyce, Stuart Janney III’s homebred filly In a Hurry slowed things down early and came running home late to turn back a bid from Grade 2 winner Plum […]
Horse Bred by Queen Wins at Pimlico
BALTIMORE – Two days after Queen Elizabeth II passed away at the age of 96 following a 70-year reign, a horse she bred in England won Saturday’s second race at historic Pimlico Race Course. West Newton, a 6-year-old gelding ridden by Forest Boyce for trainer Richard Hendriks, rallied from sixth to win by a half-length […]
Peyton Elizabeth Taking Class Jump in $75,000 Shine Again
Among Four Stakes Worth $475,000 Topped by BWI Turf Cup (G3) Jockey Karamanos Doubles Friday as Pimlico Opens Fall Meet BALTIMORE – Cash is King and LC Racing’s consistent Peyton Elizabeth, placed in 13 of 17 career starts, will make the jump up into stakes company for the first time in Saturday’s $75,000 Shine Again […]
G3 Winner Jaxon Traveler at Home for $100,000 Lite the Fuse
Looks to Win Third Straight Stakes at Pimlico in Six-Furlong Sprint Among Four Stakes Worth $875,000 Topped by BWI Turf Cup (G3) BALTIMORE – His last two trips to historic Pimlico Race Course have resulted in stakes victories, and West Point Thoroughbreds and Marvin Delfiner’s Grade 3 winner Jaxon Traveler returns with a chance to […]
Plum Ali Chasing Fifth Career Stakes Win in $100,000 All Along
G2 Winner Tops Field of Seven in 1 1/8-Mile Turf Stakes Saturday Among Four Stakes Worth $875,000 Topped by BWI Turf Cup (G3) BALTIMORE – Michael Dubb, Madaket Stables and Michael Caruso’s Grade 2 winner Plum Ali, winless in her last three starts, faces six rivals as she chases a fifth career stakes victory in […]
Graded Winners Set Piece, Field Pass in BWI Turf Cup (G3) Clash
French Group 2 Winner Pao Alto to Make U.S. Debut in One-Mile Event Headlines Four Stakes Worth $475,000 in Purses on Opening Saturday BALTIMORE – Set Piece and defending champion Field Pass, both graded-stakes winners in their only previous trips to historic Pimlico Race Course, and Pao Alto, a European Group 2 winner yet to […]
Horsemen Looking Forward to Return of Fall Racing at Pimlico
First Regularly Scheduled Fall Meet on Old Hilltop Since 2004 BWI Turf Cup (G3) Tops Eight Stakes Worth $875,000 in Purses Nine-Day Meet Begins with Live Nine-Race Program Friday BALTIMORE – When Kieron Magee first came to Maryland four decades ago to gallop horses for Dale Capuano, then the state’s dominant trainer, fall racing meant […]
MJC Hosting College Day at the Races Sunday, Sept. 18
Chance to Win 10 $1,000 Prizes for Pre-Registered Students BALTIMORE – Pre-registrations are being accepted for the Maryland Jockey Club’s College Day at the Races to be held Sunday, Sept. 18 at historic Pimlico Race Course. Students are encouraged to sign up for the unique opportunity to experience a day of live racing, music, food, […]