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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.
Millionaire Wicked Strong is moving to Dr. William Solomon’s Pin Oak Lane Farm in New Freedom, Pa., for the 2021 season. The 9-year-old syndicated stallion, who previously stood at Spendthrift Farm in Lexington, Ky., will stand for $3,500, payable when the foal stands and nurses.
Vinnie Perrone’s tribute to the late race-caller Dick Woolley was one of seven awards for the magazine for material published in 2019 and presented at the American Horse Publications Equine Media Awards May 30. The awards presentation was held virtually after the association’s equine media conference and awards program, originally scheduled for May 28-30 in Lexington, Ky., was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
