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Gwathmey headlines tripleheader in Virginia, Maryland 

©Tod Marks Glenwood Park hosts stars and stakes action at the Middleburg Spring Races on Saturday with an eight-race $300,000 card, anchored by the talent-laden $100,000 Temple Gwathmey stakes and $30,000 Middleburg Hunt Cup, marking the return of timber champion Keys Discount. The Grade 2 Gwathmey handicap hurdle, at 2 ½ miles, is shaping up…

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Uco Valley gets first stakes win; Morris and Young double; and eight different riders take Saturday’s eight races

©Tod Marks For the second straight year, Harvey Goolsby. Achsah O’Donovan, and Daniel Colhoun’s Bogey’s Image finished first in the $50,000 My Lady’s Manor timber stakes in Monkton, Md. But after a lengthy steward’s inquiry, Bogey’s Image — the 6 3/4-length winner — was disqualified and placed last because his jockey, Teddy Davies, weighed under…

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My Lady’s Manor headlines weekend doubleheader

©Tod Marks Eight races worth $190,000 are on tap for Saturday as steeplechasing makes its way to Maryland and Virginia. The historic Maryland Timber Triple gets underway in Monkton, about 30 miles north of Baltimore with the $50,000 My Lady’s Manor stakes, the centerpiece of the four-race, $105,000 card. The race, first contested in 1902,…

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Swore roars home a winner in Carolina Cup; plus the return of Tom Foley, and Virginia Korrell loses her bug

©Tod Marks Stone Farm and Upland Flats Racing’s Swore, the National Steeplechase Association’s leading 2025 novice, proved he’s more than ready for the big boys as he romped by 6 3/4 lengths over Leamington Racing’s Chortal in the 91st running of the $75,000 Carolina Cup at Springdale Race Course in Camden on Saturday. Trained by…

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‘America’s Aintree’: Fair Hill Turf Showcase Set For May 24 And 25

©Maggie Kimmitt The Maryland Jockey Club (TMJC), in partnership with the National Steeplechase Association (NSA), Cecil County, the Cecil County Breeders’ Fair, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, the Fair Hill Foundation, and the Maryland Racing Commission (MRC), is excited to host the “Fair Hill Turf Showcase” at historic and scenic Fair Hill in Elkton,…

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