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- Billy Peel IV, from Columbia Country Club, won the 98th Amateur championship of the Maryland State Golf Association after Pete DeTemple conceded the match.
- Check back here for race-by-race results from 2019 Preakness Day at Pimlico Race Course.
- Jockey etiquette has been a major topic of discussion ever since apparent Kentucky Derby winner Maximum Security was disqualified two weeks ago.
- Jockey Trevor McCarthy claimed his third consecutive meet title and trainer Mike Trombetta earned his first since 2015 as Laurel Park closed its 19-day spring stand Sunday.
- A dominant winner over the course in her debut two months ago, Godolphin homebred Elsa returns as the horse to beat as she seeks her first career stakes
- Maryland senior running back Ty Johnson is a preseason candidate for the Doak Walker Award. Johnson, also named to the Maxwell Award watch list earlier in the
- The 14th annual Matzohball 5K and 1 Mile Fun Run, presented by Temple Isaiah, will be held Sunday at 9 a.m., with part of the proceeds benefitting the flood
- The race-by-race results from Preakness Day 2018 on a muddy track as the rain fell throughout the day,
- The first race of Preakness Day went off as scheduled in a light rain and a sloppy track at Pimlico Race Course.
- Baltimore City Community College defeated ASA College, 76-68, at St. Joseph's College in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Friday night to capture the National Junior College
- Trailing by four midway through the second half, the No. 9 Navy women's lacrosse team scored eight of the final 11 goals to beat host Michigan, 11-10, on Sunday.
- Jairus Lyles broke the 12th tie with a short bank shot with 1:32 to play and the UMBC men's basketball team edged visiting Northern Kentucky, 76-75.
- Digest: Terps' Bannister places first at Mat-Town Open
- Digest: Honor the Fleet dominant winner in Laurel feature
- Digest: Brigade fall to Soul, 70-21, but still clinch playoff berth
- Digest: Capitals to protect 11 players from Vegas expansion draft
- Digest: Jockey McCarthy, trainers Rice, Magee claim Laurel winter-spring meet titles
- Veteran jockey Steve Hamilton will be riding eight times during the rich 11-race Maryland Million Day program as he continues to rebuild a career that lay fallow while he raised his family and worked as a blacksmith back in his home state of Oklahoma.
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- Wayne Harrison, Bob Manfuso and Katie Voss' 3-year-old gelding Corvus might have earned himself a return trip to the Oct. 22 Maryland Million after his front-running victory in Sunday's featured ninth race at Laurel Park.
- It took six medals in Rio de Janeiro, but Baltimore Paralympic star Jessica Long captured gold Saturday in the women's SM8 200-meter individual medley to boost her career gold total to 13 and medal total to 23.
- Triple Crown winner American Pharoah had an enthusiastic rooting section as he galloped Friday morning in preparation for the $1.75 million Haskell Invitational.
- Jockey Victor Carrasco, 23, is looking to continue his career ascent Friday when Laurel Park opens its summer meet.
- Laurel Park closed its 2015 winter meet Sunday with a mandatory payout of its Jackpot Pick 5. Five of five winners returned $1,037.02.
- Jockey Sheldon Russell, who earned his 1,000th career victory last weekend, rode four winners on Laurel Park's 10-race program Saturday.
- Jockeys at Laurel Park braved cold weather Thursday to complete a nine-race card.
- Ridden by jockey Sheldon Russell and trained by Mark Shuman, the daughter of Lion Hearted broke alertly, moved extremely wide into the stretch and handled some mild bumping before finishing the 7-furlong race.
- Big fields are entered in stakes for 2-year olds Friday and Saturday at Laurel Park: the Maryland Juvenile Filly Championship and the Maryland Juvenile Futurity.
- Results from each horse race on Preakness Day, Saturday, May 17, 2014 at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland.
- Three Diamond Farm's Private Tale hopped at the start and was last all the way to the far turn, but from there he was relentless in pursuit, weaving through traffic to win Monday's $125,000 Native Dancer Stakes at Laurel Park.
- Under confident handling, Marc Ferrell's Called to Serve waited behind the leaders, tipped to the outside and pounced, winning the $125,000 Broad Brush Stakes, the co-feature on New Year's Eve at Laurel Park.
- The 11-horse field in the $350,000 Frank J. De Francis Memorial Dash at Laurel Park was packed with strong sprinters from New York and New Jersey, but when the competitors in the six-furlong race reached the wire, it was Maryland-bred Action Andy, the sixth betting choice, by a literal whisker.
- Representatives from the tracks and the horsemen are working to find stability now that slot money has increased purses
- Purses are up, stakes and turf races are on the rise and more trainers and horses are coming to fill the stalls at the Bowie Training Center and Laurel Park, which opens its fall meet Wednesday.
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- Jockeys Mario Gutierrez, Joel Rosario and Rosie Napravnik and trainers Jamie Ness, Chad Brown and Doug O'Neill are taking horse racing's center stage.
- Hamilton Smith waits his entire career for Triple Crown race
- Preakness 2012 jockeys prep for the race with a mix of study and superstition.
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- 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.
- Bodemeister, the 4-1 morning line favorite, seemed to run effortlessly around most of track at Churchill Downs on Saturday, opening a lead of four lengths coming out of the final turn. But Bodemeister -- whose name comes from a nickname for trainer Bob Baffert's son Bode -- got tired. Baffert, who suffered a heart attack in Dubai in late March, appeared calm afterward.
- Maryland-based trainer Hamilton Smith finally has his chance to saddle a horse in the 2012 Kentucky Derby
- Bodemeister the early favorite after drawing No. 6 position for Kentucky Derby
- Hamilton Smith's first Triple Crown horse will arrive at Chruchill Downs Sunday