©Tod Marks Glenwood Park hosts stars and stakes action at the Middleburg Spring Races on Saturday with an eight-race, $310,000 card, anchored by the $100,000 Temple Gwathmey stakes and $30,000 Middleburg Hunt Cup stakes over timber. The Grade 2 Gwathmey, at 2 ½ miles, is shaping up as an early season blockbuster. The nine nominees…

©Tod Marks Eight races worth $185,000 are on tap for Saturday as steeplechasing returns to Maryland and Virginia. The historic Maryland Timber Triple gets underway in Monkton, about 30 miles north of Baltimore with the $50,000 My Lady’s Manor stakes, the marquee event on the four-race, $105,000 card. The race, first contested in 1902, has…

©Tod Marks St. Rita Racing’s China Beach went from relative unknown to formidable foe with a dominant performance in the 90th running of the $75,000 Carolina Cup novice stakes at Springdale Race Course in Camden, S.C., on Saturday. Making his first stakes start – and only fourth career try over jumps following a long career…

©Tod Marks Virginia horseman Harold “Sonny” Via Jr., owner of duel Eclipse Award winning jumper and Hall of Famer Good Night Shirt, died March 25 at age 94, according to Jack Fisher, who trained the champion as well as other Via runners. Via, who lived at Hob Knob Farm in Free Union, Va., campaigned Good…

©Tod Marks Six races worth $195,000 are on tap for South Carolina’s premier spring social event, while timber specialists head to Pennsylvania for four additional contests worth $65,000. Racing returns to historic Springdale Race Course in Camden, S.C., on Saturday for the 90th running of the Carolina Cup Races. Anchored by the $75,000 Carolina Cup,…