Racing History Highlights – July 11-23
…Hollywood Park. July 22, 1999: Dale Baird, the winningest trainer in history, recorded his 8,000th victory at Mountaineer Race Track in Chester, W.V., sending out Midsummer Scene to take the…
…Hollywood Park. July 22, 1999: Dale Baird, the winningest trainer in history, recorded his 8,000th victory at Mountaineer Race Track in Chester, W.V., sending out Midsummer Scene to take the…
…race at Hollywood Park. July 22, 1999: Dale Baird, the winningest trainer in history, recorded his 8,000th victory at Mountaineer Race Track in Chester, W.V., sending out Midsummer Scene to…
…League’s Rochester Red Wings. Aug. 18, 1923: The Jockey Club announced that the owner of Papyrus, winner of the Epsom Derby, had accepted an invitation to compete in an international…
…by minor-league baseball player Jose Herrera in a 40-yard dash. The race, called the “2000 Red Wings Derby,” was held prior to a home game of the International League’s Rochester…
…playing Blanche DuBois in “A Streetcar Named Desire.” That’s according to Judy Richter, who owns the farm in Westchester County, N.Y., where Peter rents stalls. Amy’s apparently quite a gal,…
…several important grand prix events. Madden won the American Gold Cup at Devon, PA, the Grand Prix of Rochester, the Grand Prix de Penn National at Harrisburg and the Grandprix…
Question:My light-colored show saddle squeaks! Any suggestions? ?Practical Horseman. All Rights Reserved. –Becky Schoeffield, Manchester, Md. Answer: Here are two squeak fixes specifically geared for light-colored show saddles, whose lack…
…core. Middleburg, named for its location as the midpoint stagecoach stop on the Alexandria-Winchester Turnpike is credited for the renaissance of American fox-hunting around l905. The population of Middleburg is…
…Island, Vermont Zone 2 New York: Upstate New York, Westchester, New York City; Northern New Jersey Zone 3 Delaware, New York: Long Island; Pennsylvania, Southern Connecticut, Southern New Jersey, Northern…
…Connecticut, although none tested positive yet. Total counts of dead birds for Nassau County on Long Island and Westchester County north of the city is over 2,000 each this year….