Horse Racing
Horse racing has a very long history in Maryland going back to colonial days. The Preakness Stakes, the middle jewel in the Triple Crown, is run at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore. Presently, Maryland has four Thoroughbred tracks and two Harness Tracks.
Track Name | Location | Type |
---|---|---|
Fair Hill Training Center | Elkton | Thoroughbred |
Laurel Park Racecourse | Laurel | Thoroughbred |
Ocean Downs | Berlin | Harness |
Pimlico Race Course | Baltimore | Thoroughbred |
Rosecroft Raceway | Fort Washington | Harness |
Timonium Racetrack | Timonium | Thoroughbred |
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Famous quotes containing the words horse and/or racing:
“The horse is taught his manage, and no star
Of wildest course but treads back his own steps;”
—William Wordsworth (17701850)
“Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they dont get fat is that they maintain a profligate level of calorie expenditure. The very same people whose evenings begin with melted goats cheese ... get up at dawn to run, break for a mid-morning aerobics class, and watch the evening news while racing on a stationary bicycle.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)