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...

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 ...

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...

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,...