Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred

06/29/2025

06/02/2025

The June edition of Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred is now available.

As this issue went to press, we received exciting news—Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred has been named the 2024 Equine Media Awards General Excellence Overall Winner by American Horse Publications. We’ll have more on that in the next issue. In the meantime, don’t miss our latest edition.

This month’s magazine is our annual steeplechase issue, featuring coverage of Maryland’s Big Three timber races and more. On the cover, Maryland-bred Road to Oz flies over the 13th fence in the Maryland Hunt Cup.

Inside this issue:
– Road to Oz rallies to win the Maryland Hunt Cup for Dan Baker and Mark Beecher
– Wrestlingwithrae takes the Grand National after placing at My Lady’s Manor
– Bogey’s Image captures My Lady’s Manor for trainer Joe Davies
– A Maryland-bred Maxfield c**t goes international with a seven-figure sale to Godolphin
– Graham Watters’ wild few weeks include a historic win, hospital stay, and Virginia Gold Cup comeback
– Fore Harp continues the legacy of sire Weigelia in the King T. Leatherbury Stakes

Read the full digital edition now. Members have full access.

05/19/2025

The Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred won multiple awards this past weekend at the American Horse Publications Conference including General Excellence for Overall Publication.

Our magazine also won the General Excellence Award for Print Publication under 10,000. Our Editor Joe Clancy won the Association Feature Single Article award for his article "20/20 Hindsight" on regional-bred Smarty Jones in our May 2024 edition of Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred.

Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred also won Editorial Action Photograph for Scott Serio's "Night Rider -- Skippylongstocking wins the Charles Town Classic," photo that featured in our October 2024 magazine.

What a weekend!

05/17/2025

Hats off to PA-bred Witty who came flying late to win the $125,000 Jim McKay Turf Sprint. A 6-year-old gelding, Witty was bred by trainer Elizabeth Merryman.

Witty was sired by Maryland-based Northview Stallion Station's Great Notion out of the Congrats mare Zeezee Zoomzoom.

05/16/2025

The racing world’s biggest names gathered this morning, Friday May 16 at Pimlico for morning workouts ahead of today’s Black-Eyed Susan Stakes-G2 and tomorrow’s Preakness Stakes-G1.

05/05/2025

Our latest edition of the Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred takes a look back as Pimlico hosts the 150th – and last as we know it – Preakness as Baltimore’s racetrack faces a complete overhaul set to begin after this year’s renewal as well as remembering the legend of Preakness the horse, legendary Preakness moments and much more.

Be on the lookout for the May 2025 edition of Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred!

05/04/2025

Saturday was a monumental day for Maryland racing as Mindframe came from the outside to win his first grade 1 contest, the Churchill Downs Stakes.

Bred by the late Larry Johnson and trained by Todd Pletcher, Mindframe was runner-up in the Belmont Stakes and Haskell-G1 last year. He has won four of six starts with a 2025 kickoff victory in the Gulfstream Park Mile-G2 on March 1.

05/04/2025

On May 3, 2025, Parx Racing held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to unveil an exhibit dedicated to Smarty Jones. The space includes the Hall of Famer's Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes trophies, along with saddle towels and even more memorabilia. Smarty Jones's trainer John Servis (center) cut the ribbon, alongside (left to right) Parx Racing track announcer Jessica Paquette, Director of Operations Rich Romano, Chief Operating Officer Joe Wilson and PTHA Executive Director Jeff Matty.

05/02/2025

The New Jersey-bred Horse of the Year in 2024 for the second consecutive year, grade 1 winner Book'em Danno looks to make it two wins on the bounce in Saturday's Churchill Downs Stakes-G1.

A winner at Colonial Downs in the $100,000 Boston Handicap last month, Atlantic Six Racing's Book'em Danno, a son of Bucchero, has seven wins in 12 starts and $1,098,125 in career bankroll. He is the leading money earner for his sire, who stands for $10,000 at Ironhorse Stallions in Stillwater, N.Y.

05/01/2025

Bred in Pennsylvania by Barlar, LLC, Simply Joking is the only Midlantic-bred slated to be in action for the Grade 1 Kentucky Oaks on Friday, May 2, at Churchill Downs.

Trained by D. Whitworth Beckman and ridden by Florent Geroux, Grantley Acres, Ryan Conner, Berkels0813, and CMNWLTH's promising filly was last seen setting the pace in the Fantasy Stakes-G2 before narrowly being run down late, she has a record of two wins and one second from three career starts, with earnings of $288,000.

04/24/2025

Smarty Jones (Elusive Quality—I’ll Get Along, by Smile) bred in Pennsylvania by Someday Farm, was one of the seven new members that have been elected to the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame!

Winning eight of his nine career starts, including the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes in his sophomore season, he was voted the Eclipse Award for Champion 3-Year-Old Male in 2004.

Owned by Roy and Pat Chapman under their Someday Farm banner, Smarty Jones was trained by John C. Servis and ridden exclusively by Stewart Elliott.

04/02/2025

Celebrate the start of Spring with our latest edition of Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred!