Updated Site, New Datasets
Horse Racing Datasets gets a much needed update as well as new datasets for Saratoga and Del Mar.
Read moreNew Datasets: Saratoga
Get ready for Saratoga with a few new datasets from 2017. We’ll also show you how to easily create these datasets for 2018!
Read moreJudy Johnson, Maryland’s first professional female rider
Much of Judy Johnson’s career had this headlong, omnivorous quality. She rode, trained, and traded horses, sometimes on the same day.
Read moreMore About Joyce Goldschmidt Bachner
Stories and reminiscences about the Maryland-based horsewoman profiled in “The hardest working exercise boy at Pimlico is a girl.”
Read moreAn afternoon of time shifting and Ben’s Cat
Maryland Million Day seemed designed to have a shifting-time quality to it, reflecting, it felt to me, my own preoccupation with its past.
Read moreThe hardest working exercise boy at Pimlico is a girl
Directly after junior high, Joyce Goldschmidt was already waking up at dawn to exercise yearlings, and by the end her career she had done it all: rode, raced, trained, bred, and sold horses.
Read moreElizabeth Daingerfield, Horsewoman, Pioneer and Book Reviewer
Man o’ War’s stud manager was a pioneer in many respects.
Read moreThe Story of Joan Pratt
The remarkable story of Joan Pratt, a jockey and trainer in 1940’s and 50s, as told by her daughter.
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