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:
“We would not always be soothing and taming nature, breaking the horse and the ox, but sometimes ride the horse wild and chase the buffalo.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“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 don’t get fat is that they maintain a profligate level of calorie expenditure. The very same people whose evenings begin with melted goat’s 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)