A directory of 168 Maryland Thoroughbred farms spanning 17 counties included information on owners, acreage, mares, stallions, and usage.

William Woodward’s Belair, near Bowie, was the largest, with 2,500 acres, although no mares or stallions were on the property; it was used for weanlings and winter quarters. Samuel Riddle’s Glen Riddle in Worcester County, the second largest at 1,650 acres, was used for training and winter quarters. Sagamore, owned by Alfred Vanderbilt, kept the most mares (34). And 47 farms stood at least one stallion. 

• Peterski, who at age 12 won the 1948 Maryland Hunt Cup, retired to stud at W. Burling Cocks’ Hermitage Farm in Unionville, Pa., for the 1949 season.
  
  
• Havre de Grace’s spring stakes schedule included eight races, headlined by the Chesapeake, one of the country’s top early spring 3-year-old fixtures. The new Breeders’ Stakes was the first of four state-bred races for 2-year-olds. The Graw’s race was for colts and fillies at 4 furlongs April 27. Fillies would run at Pimlico May 13, with two more races scheduled in the fall at Laurel and Bowie.
  Havre de Grace, which had the worst season of any of the Maryland tracks in 1948, was granted 25 dates for 1949, although four would be run at Pimlico in the fall. 
  
  
• The Maryland Horse shared an excerpt written by J. King Ross for Expert Horseman: “Maybe I’m just an old fogie but I cannot seem to get used to glaring errors in spelling, capitalization, and word selection in our horse magazines and articles. Now take the proud name “Thoroughbred” for instance. Over and over we find writers failing to spell this with a capital letter. Don’t these writers and editors know . . . when it is used in connection with the horse it is the proper name of a breed? And – when I went to school proper names were always spelled with the initial letter capitalized!!! Shame on you!”