Best known for his top-level success, just-retired jockey Ramon Dominguez got his start in the mid-Atlantic, where he earned a reputation as a special person, as well as a special rider.
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Jockey Samantha Colvin has been a runner and a swimmer, a student and a soldier. Now she’s aiming to become a successful jockey. She’s taken an unusual path, but she hopes it leads where she wants to go.
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Saturday’s Penn Mile is the beginning of what the racetrack hopes will be a revitalized effort to boost the track’s national profile. Our Teresa Genaro says that Penn is following a path blazed by Penn’s corporate partner, Charles Town.
Read Moreby Teresa Genaro No shortage of racing memories have been made at the track they call Old Hilltop. That hill in the infield isn’t around anymore, but there are plenty of people at Pimlico this weekend whose memories of the track...
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Assistant starter Chris Campitelli and the rest of the gate crew have one of the toughest unsung jobs in the game: making sure a bunch of skittish horses settle and break cleanly. Teresa Genaro gets the lowdown (with video).
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