baltimoresun.com - Horse Racing

No live racing at Laurel Park on Wednesday, Thursday

Tue, 9 Feb 2010 21:16:00 -0500

Live racing at Laurel Park is canceled for Wednesday and Thursday. Laurel Park and Pimlico Race Course will be open for simulcasting Tuesday. View our full list of event closings.

Snow wipes out racing at Laurel Park Friday, today

Sat, 6 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500

The Maryland Jockey Club canceled live racing at Laurel Park for Friday and today because of the snowstorm in the region. Simulcasting at Laurel and Pimlico Race Course today was also canceled. The $70,000 Marshua Stakes scheduled for today will be Feb. 15 as part of a card that is headlined by the Grade 2 General George Handicap. The Laurel racing office will not work on Thursday's program until Monday. Entries for Thursday had been scheduled to close today.

Petition filed for vote on slots site

Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500

Almost 24,000 signatures collected for referendum on Arundel Mills location

A coalition has submitted nearly 24,000 signatures supporting a referendum on Anne Arundel County's fall ballot that could overturn a decision allowing the state's largest slots casino at a mall.

Md. slots panel favors table games

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500

Neighboring states to allow dice, cards

Members of Maryland's slots panel, worried that neighboring states are enhancing their casinos, recommended Friday that lawmakers allow table games like blackjack and poker at the five slots locations voters have approved.

Raffetto to resign as CEO of steeplechase organization

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500

National Steeplechase Association CEO Lou Raffetto will step down after the spring season, effective June 30. "My goal from the outset was to stimulate growth and increase revenue for the NSA," said Raffetto, 59, formerly the president of the Maryland Jockey Club. "We got some things accomplished in a very short time frame and laid the groundwork for future growth. ... Unfortunately, the depressed economic situation and some stringent state and federal regulations stalled some of our immediate plans regarding pari-mutuel wagering and simulcasting at our premier race meets."

Barbaro's brother Lentenor breaks maiden at Fla. track

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:49:00 -0500

A full brother of 2006 Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro broke his maiden Wednesday at Gulfstream Park in his third career start.

Preakness champ Rachel Alexandra wins Horse of the Year over Zenyatta

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:53:00 -0500

'There has never been another year like this for fillies'

Rachel Alexandra won the first matchup between racing's leading ladies, beating out Zenyatta for Horse of the Year.

Digger goes gate to wire to win Fire Plug Stakes

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500

Digger sped to the lead, turned back the 4-5 favorite and drew off to a driving victory in the $70,000 Fire Plug Stakes on Saturday at Laurel Park. Never menaced at any point, Digger and jockey Mike Luzzi completed the six-furlong distance in a stakes-record 1 minute, 9.13 seconds and finished 3 3/4 lengths ahead of Celtic Innis, who nipped Malibu Kid for second. Ravalo, the post-time favorite, faded to fourth. "I had to use him a little bit to get there, but he was ready today," Luzzi said. "He warmed up like a champ. Bruce is on fire in New York, and he brought some fire down here. I know Ravalo. I rode him and won on him a few times. I thought we were on the faster horse. It felt like I still had more. I hadn't asked him, and I think Richie [ Migliore on Ravalo] was riding his horse. I thought as soon as I set him down he'd kick on, and he did." Claimed for $50,000 last summer by Scott Lake for Repole Stable and transferred to Bruce Brown in October, the son of Yonaguska entered the Fire Plug off a determined victory in Aqueduct's Gravesend Handicap the day after Christmas. Digger is now 6-for-11 with 10 1-2-3 finishes at Laurel. During the 2007 fall meeting, he won three Maryland-bred stakes races while in Richard Dutrow's barn. "He's really coming into his own right now," Brown said.

Miller wants slots in Prince George's Co.

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500

Senate leader wants to save Rosecroft; proposal could reignite Assembly debate

Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller wants slot machines in his native Prince George's County, a desire that threatens to inflame the gambling debate in Annapolis once again as lawmakers consider minor changes to bolster the state's fledgling slots program.

Jockey Club gets help on referendum petition

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500

FieldWorks will collect signatures in Arundel against slots site

One of the groups organizing a petition drive with the ultimate aim of preventing slots at an Anne Arundel County mall is paying a private firm to help gather the 19,000 signatures required for a ballot referendum.