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 Looking Back

This month in mid-atlantic thoroughbred history! For Looking Back archives click here.

25 Years Ago: December 1998

In the words of Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred editor Timothy Capps, the 13th Maryland Million Day was “absolutely, irrefutably, stone-cold perfection.”

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75 Years Ago: December 1948

Pimlico’s rebuilt race course proved to be extremely fast during the fall meet and a number of track records – and one world record – were set during the 13-day span.

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10 Years Ago: November 2013

Trainer D. Wayne Lukas made his first trip to Parx Racing, sending Glenda and Willis Horton’s Will Take Charge for the $1-million Pennsylvania Derby-G2, his first start since winning the Travers Stakes-G1.

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25 Years Ago: November 1998

For the eighth time that year, Charles Town Races raised its purses, bringing them to an average of $52,500 a day – “That’s the sort of money that many of our horsemen could never before have imagined,” said Dick Watson, president of the Charles Town chapter of the Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association – while the purse underpayment for the year increased to nearly $1.5 million.

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50 Years Ago: November 1973

Ronnie and Betsy Houghton’s Sylmar Farm, on the outskirts of Rising Sun in Maryland, was humming along, reported Snowden Carter. 

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75 Years Ago: November 1948

Henry L. Straus, president of the Maryland Horse Breeders Association, president of Tropical Park, vice president and general manager of the American Totalisator Company and a breeder of importance in the state’s scheme of things, was one of the more regular visitors to the winner’s circle at Laurel on stakes days,” reported Don Reed.

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