By Matt Hegarty Daily Racing Form Thoroughbred Times, the semimonthly magazine that had a more than 100-year history through its predecessor, the Thoroughbred Record, was shuttered on Saturday and all 27 of its employees were laid off, according to Mark Simon, the editor of the magazine. Read more…

Two $1 Million Races on the Same Card By Keith Jones, Announcer – Philadelphia Park @ kjones@parxracing.com Throughout the year, the American racing landscape is dotted with million dollar races. The Triple Crown Classics, the Arlington Million, and the Travers Stakes just to name a few. But other than Breeders Cup Day, nowhere are two Read more »

The Elkstone Group’s Pitch N Roll won the inaugural running of the $75,000 Mark McDermott Stakes at Presque Isle Downs on September 7. Named after the long-time and recently retired executive secretary of the PHBA, the McDermott Stakes was the first PA-Bred two-year-old stake to be held at Presque Isle. Pitch N Roll, a gelded Read more »

Big Day at Parx Features Five Stakes By Keith Jones, Announcer – Philadelphia Park @ kjones@parxracing.com Saturday Parx Racing played host to the 12th edition of Pennsylvania’s Day at the Races, a day designed to honor the ever-growing Breeding industry here in the Commonwealth. The card called for five stakes races with purses totaling $400,000. Read more »

In another exciting Steeplechase Thursday finish, owner-trainer Jonathan Sheppard’s Cubist closed powerfully after the last fence of Saratoga Race Course’s $75,000 Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords Filly & Mare Stakes to catch Cat Feathers and win by a neck on Aug. 30. Owner-trainer Kate Dalton’s Cat Feathers, who had taken the lead approaching the final fence, Read more »

George Strawbridge Jr.’s homebred Thought Worthy set the pace under William Buick and held off favored Main Sequence by a neck to win the $235,724 Neptune Investment Management Great Voltigeur Stakes (Eng-G2) at York on Wednesday. The Pennsylvania-Bred three-year-old Dynaformer colt out of the stakes-winning Diesis (GB) mare Vignette is a full brother to Lucarno, Read more »

Only four Pennsylvania-Breds were offered at the Florida Sale for selected two-year-olds in training, but they all fetched remarkable prices. The top selling horse in the entire sale was a PA-Bred colt by Big Brown, bred by Landson Robbins and Tom Hansen, who brought an astounding $1.3 million. A Distorted Humor colt, bred by Brushwood Read more »

By Blood-Horse Staff Updated: Wednesday, February 1, 2012 8:36 AM The 40th running of the $200,000 Pennsylvania Governor’s Cup at five furlongs on the turf highlights a record $1.95 million stakes schedule at Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course. A pair of $75,000 stakes for Pennsylvania-breds kicks off the added money season on June Read more »

by Mike Curry – The Thoroughbred Times January 24, 2012 Approximately 95% of the $20,441,117 contributed to the fund last year was generated from a percentage of state slot-machine revenues. Contributions to the fund in 2011 were bolstered in part by a strong December. The amount of gross revenue generated in December 2011 through the Read more »