Superstars raced at Maryland oval When old-timers in the waterfront village of Havre de Grace get to reminiscing about the “good old days,” they start swapping tales about the local racetrack of the same...
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Stallion operation covers all the bases in Maryland, Pennsylvania Northview Stallion Station first opened its doors in 1989 with plenty of history behind it and seemingly blue skies ahead. The stallion...
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McMahon of Saratoga turns 40 in style Forty years ago when Joe and Anne McMahon bought a 100-acre farm on Fitch Road a few miles east of Saratoga’s famed track, they could have decided to raise reindeer...
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Developments over Independence Day weekend in 2010, though not unexpected for those who follow the New York Thoroughbred breeding industry, drove home the point: The New York-bred program can produce quality...
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The year was 2003, and Charles “Buck” Woodson Jr. finally had had just about enough. For more than 30 years the tough-as-nails Woodson, a no-nonsense horseman known for his colorful personality, had been...
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New Jersey-born owner, trainer, and breeder Edwin Broome obviously relishes the mountaintops in racing much more than the inevitable valleys, but like every other horseman he knows both extremes are part...
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A lifetime of hard work, dedication, and sacrifice has all come together to make Bessie Gruwell one of the most respected women in racing, not only at her home base of Delaware Park but in the Mid-Atlantic...
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Ronnie Houghton had just finished talking about the 300-acre farm he and his wife, Betsy, own in southeastern Pennsylvania. Two-hundred Thoroughbred broodmares, weanlings, yearlings, and racehorses dot...
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Along Skipton Creek in Maryland’s Talbot County near the eastern shore of Chesapeake Bay, tundra swans take flight and a rafter of wild turkeys forage the woodlands. A blue heron fishes in a contented...
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Sit in Dr. Corinne Sweeney’s office—the one with the big window overlooking the hospital barns at New Bolton Center—and you might see an Eclipse Award winner, a Paint horse, a leading stallion, an Appaloosa...
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