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Knicks Go and Beren both posted recent victories to remain atop the latest Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred/The Racing Biz Top Midlantic-bred Poll. As was the case in July, Beren leads the poll of region-bred three-year-olds, while Knicks Go leads among older horses.
Chub Wagon continued her rise up the ladder in the latest Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred/The Racing Biz Top Midlantic-bred Poll, while a pair of newcomers joined the lists.
With back-to-back stakes wins in May, three-year-old Beren came from nowhere to take over the top spot in the latest Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred/The Racing Biz Top Midlantic-bred Poll for three-year-olds. The poll, for action through June 11, is the third of 2021.
In the second Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred/The Racing Biz Top Midlantic-bred Poll of 2021, the names at the top are unchanged. But newcomers are certainly making their presence felt.
A win in January’s Grade 1 Pegasus World Cup has Maryland-bred Knicks Go atop the ranks of horses bred in the Mid-Atlantic, according to the first Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred/The Racing Biz Top Midlantic-bred Poll of 2021.
PRESS RELEASE - January 21, 2021
For the second straight year, a Breeders’ Cup victory has propelled a horse to be named The Top Midlantic-bred of the year.
Knicks Go, winner of the 2020 Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile in Keeneland track record time, earned the honor as the Top Midlantic-bred in polling conducted by Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred and The Racing Biz.
PRESS RELEASE - January 4, 2021
Sheppard, a Hall of Fame trainer whose horses excelled on the dirt, on turf, and over steeplechase fences, announced today (Jan. 4) that he is retiring from American racing. For now, he will continue to train a small stable in Ireland.
When Like A Saltshaker crossed the wire in this year's Fitz Dixon, Jr. Memorial Juvenile Stakes at Presque Isle Downs, he made his breeders a quarter of a million dollars richer.
Edited Press Release - December 2, 2020
PREMIER STALLIONS
Tight Ten, a multiple graded stakes placed son of Tapit, will enter stud in 2021 at the new Mountain Springs Farm in Palmyra, Pa.
