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HandleTrak: A healthy holiday weekend in the mid-Atlantic

Posted by The Biz | Jul 9, 2013 | Breaking, Breeding, DE Breeding, Delaware, New Jersey, NJ Business, PA Business, Pennsylvania, Top Stories, Virginia, Virginia Business, West Virginia, WV Business |

The holiday weekend was profitable for some mid-Atlantic tracks, according to our HandleTrak report, and wagering across the region rose by 10 percent.

LookBack: Patriotic hunches the way to go

Posted by The Biz | Jul 8, 2013 | Breaking, Maryland, MD Breeding, New Jersey, NJ Racing, PA Racing, Pennsylvania, Top Stories, Virginia, Virginia Racing |

In our weekly LookBack, we see that patriotic hunch plays were the way to go, and we witnessed some terrific racing.

Pimlico will be “Totally Thoroughbred” on Saturday

Posted by The Biz | Jul 8, 2013 | Breaking, Happy Endings, Maryland, MD Racing |

Pimlico will host the 2nd annual Totally Thoroughbred Horse Show on Saturday — a horse show in which Thoroughbreds compete under their Jockey Club names.