MARYLAND, MY MARYLAND

Post-Preakness Stakes reflections on Maryland Thoroughbred breeding and racing, historically and in the future: The cradle of Thoroughbred breeding in the United States is Virginia. However, its next-door neighbor Maryland was also a place where blooded stock was bred before there was a United States. In 1747, the Provincial Governor of Maryland, Samuel…

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