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Coley Blind, of Monkton, has needed all the good luck he can get. In a racing office abuzz with activity, he is responsible for putting together the stakes races on Maryland's biggest race day of the year, including the biggest race of all — this Saturday's 140th Preakness Stakes, the second leg of racing's Triple Crown. - When Rosie Napravnik ventures to Pimlico Race Course to ride Bayern in Saturday's 139th running of the Preakness, the 26-year-old riding star can expect an emotional homecoming.
- More Than a Cruise stormed from last to first to win the $100,000 Conniver Stakes for Maryland-bred and/or Maryland-sired fillies and mares, the co-feature on Saturday's program at Laurel Park.
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- The life and death of Eddie Feete is a reminder that we can find much good in the world if we look.
- Reference to fairground after Battle of Gettysburg
- On Monday, July 8, a group of 15 seniors from Conowingo, Rising Sun and Port Deposit traveled to Baltimore to visit the Ronald McDonald House on Lexington Street. The group, formed in 2006, meets every Monday morning ¿ rain or shine ¿ at the Rising Sun McDonald's to play bingo.
- Before they ever officially became racehorses, they were just two of eight horses in a field on the Kentucky farm where they were born. Shortly after being weaned from their mothers, they were given their own paddock to roam at bucolic Claiborne Farm outside of Lexington, Ky.
- Nicole Stall's husband Al will enter Departing in the Preakness Stakes, creating a homecoming for the John carroll grad who long worked on Billy Boniface's Bonita Farm.
- Jockey Rosie Napravnik (Hereford) closed out a career-best season Dec. 31, securing the highest spot ever for a female jockey on the North American leader board.
- Danny Van Natta, son of Lynn and Mark Van Natta of Springdale was recently selected as the recipient of the ...
- Rosie Napravnik made the move to Belmont for this meet and has been one of the top riders heading into the Belmont.
- Kent Desormeaux will return to his racing roots in Maryland when he rides Saturday in the 137th Preakness Stakes, while two other Hall of Famers, Edgar Prado and Ramon Dominguez, will be back at Pimlico, the track that served as their proving ground.
- 2011 American Thoroughbred Horse of the Year Havre de Grace was retired from racing after suffering an ankle injury while training at Churchill Downs in Kentucky, the horse's owner said.
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- Reigning Horse of the Year Havre de Grace treated Fair Grounds guests to a shamrock-flavored shower of power Saturday, giving those on hand and racing fans all over the world a St. Patrick's Day to remember with a facile 4 1/2-length victory as she made her 2012 debut in the third running of the $150,000 New Orleans Ladies.
- City arts commission includes racehorse in its series of annual medallions
- Havre de Grace is closing in on Horse of the Year honor
- The Tuff Truck Race was held at the Mason Dixon Fair Grounds Oct. 22 and 20 competitors vied for the top spots in both 2- and 4-wheel-drive categories and a chance to take home the Shoot Out trophy.
- Racing to expand fo five days per week at Laurel Park Maryland Racing Commission approves race dates for Timonium Fair and Laurel Park
