Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred

The Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred is a unique monthly publication focused solely on the Thoroughbred industry in the Mid-Atlantic area. It aims to promote Thoroughbred breeding and racing across eight states: Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia. This magazine offers valuable news, insights, educational content, and entertainment for Thoroughbred owners, trainers, breeders, and fans in the region.

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Work in Progress: Pennsylvania newcomers, changes lead region's 2025 stallion market

Jan 17, 2025 | midatlantictb.com | Joe Clancy

What do the owner of a structural steel company and a sales director for an international software company have in common? New Pennsylvania stallions. If you survived the boomerang effect of that Q&A, ponder the decisions of Darryl Myers (steel-company entrepreneur) and Ralph Santella (software sales guy) to dive into the breeding business as the owners of Tyson and Enticed, respectively.
Game Changer: More than 30 years from start, ZWP motors on with It's Hammertime

Dec 17, 2024 | midatlantictb.com | John Piassek

When the events department at Delaware Park decided to host a handicapping contest in 1992, they surely couldn't have imagined its ripple effects would play out on the track, and throughout the Mid-Atlantic, more than three decades later. Foard Wilgis and Dave Picarello, Teamsters from Baltimore, finished second in that contest and took home $4,000. Rather than invest that money at the betting windows, they decided to purchase a horse.
Classic Shine: Brilliant Ice shines in feature as homebreds dominate Maryland's Day at the Races

Dec 17, 2024 | midatlantictb.com | Joe Clancy

Everybody starts somewhere. For Phil Bartz, his introduction to Thoroughbred racing came with a trip to the Adirondacks -- and Saratoga Race Course -- from his family's home in Buffalo, N.Y."By the time I went to kindergarten I could read," Bartz said.
Love Wins: Yearling out of How My Heart Works tops sale for second straight year

Nov 15, 2024 | midatlantictb.com | Joe Clancy

Leading the annual Sneaker Creeper footrace for children in Chestertown, Md., Allison Davis graciously paused at a chute near the finish line to let another runner pass. "Why did you let that other little girl go first?" Allison's mom Becky asked afterward. "Oh," 3-year-old Allison replied. "I wanted the other girl to go first." "But you didn't win the race," Becky said.
Full Circle: Colonial brings big impact to steeplechase schedule

Nov 15, 2024 | midatlantictb.com | Joe Clancy

When Toby Edwards went to work for Irish trainer Arthur Moore in 1985 and listened to tales of a trip to the United States with steeplechase star *L'Escargot for the 1970 Colonial Cup, the facts barely made sense . An Irish-based horse, trained by Moore's father Dan, who'd won the Cheltenham Gold Cup in March, traveled to Camden, S.C. -- by way of Nova Scotia -- in November for the first running of a $100,000 steeplechase?
Bouncing Back: Owens barn shines despite transfer of Little Ni

Oct 17, 2024 | midatlantictb.com | Paul Halloran

The horse racing gods taketh away, the horse racing gods giveth. Monmouth Park-based trainer Eddie Owens Jr. had a potential star on his hands with Little Ni, a speedy sprinter who won his first three starts by a combined 17 lengths heading into the Jersey Shore Stakes, where he took on Book'em Danno, off a win in the Grade 1 Woody Stephens at Saratoga on Belmont Stakes Day. Little Ni came within a head bob of pulling off a major upset.
Street Fighter: Dornoch stars on banner Haskell Day at Monmouth Park

Sep 9, 2024 | midatlantictb.com | Paul Halloran

It's not as if co-owner Larry Connolly was anticipating any trouble on his first visit to Monmouth Park, but he brought a four-legged street fighter with him just in case. The tough guy in question is Dornoch, an equine version of John L. Sullivan, one who seemingly enjoys mixing it up as much as winning. Dornoch had already shown a proclivity to take a punch and respond with a flurry entering the 57th Haskell Stakes-Gl at the New Jersey track July 20.
Special Preakness moment not lost in the Pimlico mud

Jul 9, 2024 | midatlantictb.com | Joe Clancy

In low heels, a black skirt, white blazer, fashionable scarf and hat, Laurie Lukas stepped into the light brown goo of Pimlico Race Course’s dirt track an hour or so after the Preakness Stakes. Trying to be of assistance, I offered an elbow. “Can I help you get across this?” I said. Quietly, she replied, “I’m OK, but I think my husband could use a hand.” Dressed in jeans, cowboy boots and signature cowboy hat, Hall of Fame trainer D.
Grabbing Hold: Seize the Grey comes through for breeder, more at Pimlico

Jul 9, 2024 | midatlantictb.com | Joe Clancy

Celebratory in all its doomed dilapidation, the Pimlico Race Course building shook as fans cheered for history. Across a sloppy dirt track and a wet turf course in temporary hospitality structures, more of the estimated 40,000 in attendance marveled at the spectacle. Near the infield winner’s circle, used just twice a year, a hundred owners chanted their horse’s name as if he were a hockey goalie a minute from a playoff shutout. And Audie Otto found a quiet place to appreciate it all.
Timber Classic: Irish-bred Blackhall prevails in thriller for Kinross, Davies

Jun 12, 2024 | midatlantictb.com | Joe Clancy

Over some 36 years in flat and jump racing, the gray and blue Kinross Farm silks found their way to many winner’s circles after scores of races – three Virginia Gold Cups, two editions of the Iroquois Steeplechase-G1, the $1 million Charles Town Classic, even a maiden special weight about seven hours before Rachel Alexandra made history at Pimlico Race Course on Preakness Day 2009. The list is long and fruitful.