Butch Reid Finishing Off Career Year
November 29th, 2021 By Dick Jerardi So what do you do for an encore after training the Eclipse Award-winning 2-year-old filly in 2020? Just have the best year of your career. With just a month to go in 2021, Butch Reid needs a
NOVEMBER AROUND THE OVALS
(Disco Ebo #8 with Jomar Torres riding won the $200,000 Shamrock Rose Stakes at Penn National Racecourse on Friday November 26, 2021. Photo By Bill Denver/EQUI-PHOTO) November 28th - Parx racing was well represented at Aqueduct in the $200,000
PARX, PENN NATIONAL AWARDED 2022 LIVE RACING DATES
By: Tom LaMarra Posted: Dec. 1, 2022 The Pennsylvania Horse Racing Commission Nov. 30 approved 2022 racing dates for Parx Racing and Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course and will address an application from Presque Isle Downs & Casino at its
4 Parx Horses Headed to Claiming Crown
Blue-Collar Horses Ready for Claiming Crown Spotlight Gulfstream hosts nine starter stakes worth $810,000 to celebrate blue-collar horses. Very much the poster horse for what the annual Claiming Crown at Gulfstream Park represents, Mastic Beach Racing's Tune In will seek his seventh win in his last 10
Michael P. Ballezzi Retiring After 25 Years as Executive Director of Pennsylvania Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association
By: Pete Peterson BENSALEM, PA (November 30, 2021) – Over the course of his tenure as Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association (PTHA), Michael P. Ballezzi, Esq. has been an unrelenting champion of horsemen, the sport of horseracing and
RISING STAR WITTY DELIVERS IN $200,000 PENNSYLVANIA NURSERY STAKES
(Witty opening up for a dominant win) For Immediate Release: Tuesday, December 7, 2021 Witty, a half-brother to graded stakes winner Caravel, handily defeated nine rivals in the $200,000 Pennsylvania Nursery Stakes at Parx Racing in a five and a half length triumph. A
“Incensed”
Incensed is a big beautiful bay respectfully retired by Joe Taylor. The eight-year-old gelding, who was a warhorse, raced seventy times at seventeen different racetracks from across the country. He achieved nine wins, fifteen seconds and earnings just under $300,000. Forget
“Hear Me Purr”
"6 months ago I walked in for my weekly lesson and Freyja Marie (JC Hear Me Purr) walked out ready to go. I mentioned that I wanted to buy my own horse in the next few years but wasn’t in
Horse Hay Survey
The Penn State Extension Equine Team has launched a survey aimed at both Pennsylvania horse owners/managers and producers/sellers of horse hay. The objective of this survey is to get information about opinions and practices when it comes to buying, selling,
The Sad Ending to the Medina Spirit Saga
By Dick Jerardi When it was announced on Friday, Dec. 3 by Bob Baffert’s attorney Craig Robertson that Dr. George Maylin, the director of the New York Drug Testing and Research Program, had determined that the anti-inflammatory betamethasone present in Medina