The Renaissance Awards. It’s the night the best of the best in Maryland’s Thoroughbred horse racing industry come out to shine! And boy were there ever stars of both the four-legged and two-legged ...

The three-member Board of Public Works approved contracts that some say will lead a generational opportunity to reinvigorate Pimlico Race Course and the surrounding Park Heights community. (File photo ...

Sent off the favorite, the Blofeld gelding came from the back of the nine-horse field in a stakes-winning performance and ...

The Budget and Taxation Committee of the Maryland Senate heard discussion March 5 among supporters and detractors of a bill that would authorize up to 4,000 historical horse racing terminals at ...

But that’s just the tip of the change that will sweep one of the state’s oldest industries in the coming months. Starting on the first day of the new year, daily racing operations will be carried out ...

New Maryland Racing Commission executive director Chris Merz (Maryland Department of Labor handout photo) As the extraordinary Mike Hopkins-era at the Maryland Racing Commission came to an end at ...

The Maryland Thoroughbred Racetrack Operating Authority board of directors on Nov. 15 approved reducing Thoroughbred race dates in Maryland next year, with racing pausing in the summer to avoid ...

The Maryland Department of Labor announced Wednesday that Christopher L. Merz has joined the agency as executive director of the Maryland Racing Commission. Merz has more than a decade of experience ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — A Maryland board approved a $14.3 million contract on Wednesday to begin the demolition and rebuilding of Baltimore's storied but antiquated Pimlico Race Course, home to the second ...

All this means that the horses that outriders use are a key part of the equation. “I’m only as good as the horse I sit on,” ...

A Maryland thoroughbred proves it's not too late for a second career. After success on the racetrack as a young horse, the now 11-year-old horse is competing nationally on the steeplechase circuit. At ...

FROM CHURCHILL DOWNS. I’M IN THE HALL OF FAME AS ONE OF THE BEST BLACK TRAINERS IN THE 20TH CENTURY. HE SURE IS. 88 YEAR OLD RAYMOND CLAY HAS SPENT A LOT OF TIME IN THE WINNER’S CIRCLE, AND HE ...