British race caller Mark Johnson calling the races at the Queen's Cup Steeplechase in 2017. Johnson will co-host Jump Racing USA on Saturday afternoon with Megan Connolly. Tod Marks photo

For the one and only time this spring, two NSA meets will run concurrently, as the 124th Maryland Hunt Cup takes place in Glyndon on Saturday while the hurdle season kicks off about 500 miles away at the Queen’s Cup in Mineral Springs, N.C. The Hunt Cup, America’s oldest steeplechase, will be run with limited

Footpad and Sean McDermott jump a new EasyFix fence at the Loudoun Point to Point. ©Liz Callar

A steeplechase braintrust has been working for years to noodle out a new design that keeps everything we love about jump racing (fast horses jumping fast over hurdles designed to be negotiated at speed) and eliminates everything we don’t All hurdle races at the April 18 Loudoun Hunt Point-to-Point – at Morven Park in Leesburg,

Michael A. Smith’s Le Chevalier, ridden by McLane Hendriks, won the 118th running of the Grand National timber stakes for trainer Julie Gomena. Tod Marks photo

Talk about a throwback feeling. On Saturday at the Grand National Races in the heart of Maryland timber racing country, it seemed as if it was 2016, 2018, or even 2019. After last year’s event was cancelled due to Covid, fans were allowed to attend the races in Butler at 50 percent capacity, and the

Kathy Neilson in the winner's circle with Awesome Adrian and jockey Eddie Keating after her 200th career win on Saturday. Tod Marks photo

Pennsylvania-based trainer Kathy Neilson recorded her 200th career win on Saturday when Awesome Adrian captured the Benjamin H. Murray Memorial timber allowance at the Grand National Races in Butler, Md. Kathy, an accomplished jockey who cut her training teeth working for Hall of Famer Jonathan Sheppard from 1991 to 1997, saddled several horses on her

Skip Crawford's Senior Senator won the 2019 running of the Grand National, with Eric Poretz up. Douglas Lees photo

Timber racing returns to Maryland hunt country for the second Saturday in a row as nine veteran runners including stakes winners Stand Down, Mystic Strike, and Grand Manan, are expected to go to the post in the 118th running of the historic contest in Butler. This year’s Grand National carries a purse of $30,000. And

Vintage Vinnie and Chris Gracie set the pace early in the $30,000 My Lady's Manor timber stake. TOD MARKS PHOTO.

Call him the king of consistency.  Vintage Vinnie’s victory in Saturday’s $30,000 My Lady’s Manor timber stakes in Monkton, Md.,  was the 12-year-old Vinnie Roe gelding’s fifth straight in-the-money finish on the NSA tour since coming over from Europe in 2018 for Armata Stables. Ridden by Chris Gracie for trainer Joe Davies, Vintage Vinnie was