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Citation's Pimlico Special walkover, 1948

On Friday, Pimlico Race Course will card the Pimlico Special as part of Black Eyed Susan Day. The Pimlico Special is a race of major historical significance that has fallen on hard times in recent years. It will lose its grading this year and hasn’t been run since 2008 ... Read full post >>

From the Archives: The "Lost" Preakness

Happy Preakness Day everybody! Among my favorite articles from this site are two that I wrote about the history of the Preakness. In those two articles, I presented a case that Preakness history was incorrectly re-written back in 1948 ... Read full post >>

The Great American Race Track Project, 1865 to 2012

The idea is to document every thoroughbred race track in the United States. Before I even began compiling sources to consult, I came up with the grandiose name of "The Great American Race Track Project" it's now linked at the top of the page ... Read full post >>