Mystic Strike and jockey Mark Beecher in the 2019 My Lady's Manor. ©Tod Marks

If it’s April it must be timber racing season in Maryland. After being postponed in 2020 due to Covid-19, the races return to Monkton, Md., on Saturday with a four-race card anchored by the $30,000 My Lady’s Manor timber stakes to be contested over three miles. Headlining the field are Upland Partners’ Mystic Strike, winner

Scorpion's Revenge wins at Cork for the Naylors

Trainer Keri Brion, who took over Jonathan Sheppard’s string in Ireland after the legendary conditioner retired earlier this winter, won her first race of the long campaign when newcomer Scorpion’s Revenge captured a bumper flat race today at Cork Racecourse. Owned by Irv and Diane Naylor, Scorpion’s Revenge was purchased from James Doyle’s Baltimore Stable.

Royal Ruse and Skylar McKenna rocket over the last in the first division of the Louis "Paddy" Neilson apprentice timber race.

Coming off of successful 2020 campaigns, Charlie Fenwick’s Royal Ruse and Wendy Hendriks’ Cheers to Us captured the first sanctioned National Steeplechase Association races of the year at Sunday’s Cheshire Point to Point in Coatesville, Pa.  Royal Ruse, trained by Sanna Neilson, took the first division of the $7,500 Louis “Paddy” Neilson III at three

The Neilson, Hendriks and McKenna families celebrate the victory of Wendy Hendriks' Officer Sydney in the inaugural running of the Paddy Neilson Timber Race last fall at the Willowdale Point to Point. ©Tod Marks

The first of 13 scheduled spring meets takes place on Sunday in Coatesville, Pa., featuring the Louis “Paddy” Neilson III Memorial Amateur Apprentice Timber event. Though the meet will take place behind closed doors because of ongoing concerns about the pandemic, race-day video will be aired in the evening following the races. Eight horses have

After a brilliant career on both sides of the Atlantic, National Steeplechase Association jockey Michael Mitchell has decided to hang up his tack. The Englishman, known around the track as Mikey, brings down the curtain after 10 years in the saddle that saw him reach the pinnacle of steeplechase racing as champion rider in both

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