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Midlantic Racing Today
The Racing Biz
Midlantic Racing Today brings you the best of Mid-Atlantic Thorougbhred horse racing and breeding -- the most interesting guests, the best handicappers, and the most insight into horse racing in Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, Delaware, and beyond.
Episódios
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Talking Fasig-Tipton fall yearling sale
· 49 min
Fasig-Tipton's annual fall yearling sale in Timonium is upon us -- well, almost. It takes place Tuesday, Oct. 27. And this year's edition comes with a couple of significant changes: a new format designed to highlight the Mid-Atlantic region's breeding programs and a Preakness bonus that could significantly sweeten the pot if a graduate of the sale wins the Middle Jewel. Frank Alosa from Fasig-Tipt...
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Talking with the riding King of Charles Town
· 1 h 04 min
Arnaldo Bocachica has been the longtime king of Charles Town riders, and if he wins this year's local riding title -- he has a 15-win advantage -- will secure his ninth consecutive leading rider title. Arnaldo Bocachica is our guest on this episode of Midlantic Racing Today, powered by The Racing Biz. Bocachica has often saved his best for the biggest days, once winning eight WV Breeders Classics...
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Previewing closing weekend at Delaware Park!
· 25 min
Delaware Park racing analyst Stan Salter joins us on Midlantic Racing Today as closing weekend looms. Midlantic Racing Today is powered by The Racing Biz. Delaware concludes its 2026 season with a 10-race program on Oct. 17, but if the season is ending, it's ending with a bang. There are full fields everywhere and two stakes top the card. Those two are the $100,000 Wilmington for older runners and...
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Flying under the radar at Delaware Park
· 42 min
While some of the trainers who've had strong meets at Delaware Park are pretty familiar names -- think Jamie Ness, Gary Capuano, Mike Simone, or Greg Compton -- a few others have flown under the radar. One of the latter group is Chris Seale, who joins us in this exclusive interview on Midlantic Racing Today. Seale's operation -- based most of the year in Florida -- won with nine of 31 starters dur...
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Midlantic Racing Today weekend preview: WVBC and more!
· 1 h 03 min
Lots of Mid-Atlantic horse racing action is on tap this weekend, and we bring in Charles Town announcer and linemaker Paul Espinosa and Delaware Park analyst Stan Salter to help us sort through it. They are our guests on this episode of Midlantic Racing Today, powered by The Racing Biz! At Charles Town, it's West Virginia Breeders Classics weekend, with a 10-race program dedicated to the best in W...
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"Racing as it should be": A Maryland Million legacy
· 36 min
More than 40 years ago, famed sportscaster Jim McKay and others had a big idea -- maybe even a preposterous one. Why not have a day of racing, modeled on the Breeders' Cup but dedicated to Maryland, featuring the progeny of Maryland stallions and celebrating Maryland breeding and racing? Where would the purses come from? Who would show up? Would breeders support it? Could it possibly work? Now, as...
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The art of not going broke with homebreds while overcoming tragedy
· 1 h 17 min
If you're looking for a quick way to go broke in horse racing, breeding and then racing your homebreds is usually the ticket. It's a slow, expensive process, and any money the horse might earn for you is three or more years off in the future. But nobody gave Chas Blanford the memo. Blanford, an owner and breeder based in Maryland, joins us for an exclusive interview on Midlantic Racing Today, powe...
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Talking WV Breeders Classics at 40!
· 51 min
October 10 marks the 40th running of the West Virginia Breeders Classics -- the biggest night of the year for local horsemen! WV Breeders Classics co-founder Carol Holden is our guest on this episode of Midlantic Racing Today, powered by The Racing Biz. In a couple of weeks, we may see nine of last year's 10 winners back in WVBC races -- including horses like WV-bred Horse of the Year Teachinthere...
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A jockey agent's life, plus a weekend preview
· 53 min
Laurel Park hosts three stakes Saturday afternoon, and one of them -- the Selima -- has produced a Breeders' Cup winner Jockey agent Tom Stift will be well represented with one of his clients riding in each of the three. Angel Cruz has mounts in the All Along (on Mischief in Motion) and the Laurel Futurity (Fire Marshal), while Vincent Cheminaud pilots Sea Isle City in the Selima. Tom Stift joins...
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Talking Delaware Handicap
· 35 min
Regaled was a powerful winner of the 2025 Delaware Handicap, rallying from well back to win by six lengths -- a triumph she parlayed into a third-place finish in the Breeders' Cup Distaff. Only seven horses in the history of the Delaware Handicap have defended their crowns. Can Regaled be the eighth? We'll dig into that question on today's episode of Midlantic Racing Today, powered by The Racing B...
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Trainer talks unexpected beginnings and breaking new ground
· 54 min
Back in 2020, Keri Brion was in Ireland overseeing a string of horses for her boss Jonathan Sheppard when she learned he was unexpectedly retiring -- a move that thrust her into a training on her own, a job she'd expected to have... just not quite yet. Then The Mean Queen won the Eclipse Award as champion steeplechaser, and things started to happen for her. Keri Brion joins us for an exclusive int...
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How'd an $8,000 claimer end up in a Grade 1 race?!?
· 55 min
When trainer Michael Simone dropped $8,000 to claim Micanopy a few months back, he was hoping for a solid enough horse who would fit in the Mid-Atlantic. But he never expected to land the horse who would give him his first stakes win -- and then take him to the Grade 1 Pennsylvania Derby. Michael Simone joins us for an exclusive interview on this episode of Midlantic Racing Today, powered by The R...
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Anthony Farrior's fleet 2-year-olds
· 49 min
Charles Town's first 2-year-old stakes of 2026 are upon us this weekend, and trainer Anthony Farrior arrives holding a strong hand: two, including the favorite, in Friday's John McKee Memorial, and an intriguing debut runner in Saturday's Henry Mercer Memorial. Farrior, Charles Town's defending leading trainer who this year is chasing Ronney Brown, is our guest on this episode of Midlantic Racing...
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Trainer Pedro Nazario on the journey to his first stakes win
· 34 min
When For the Ladies got up late to win the $75,000 Shine Again Stakes at Timonium Aug. 29, it wasn't just her third consecutive triumph. It also provided the first stakes win of trainer Pedro Nazario's career. Pedro Nazario joins us for an exclusive interview on this episode of Midlantic Racing Today, powered by The Racing Biz. Nazario struck out on his own as a trainer in 2021 and has won 70 race...
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Retired jockey Mario Pino on the journey to 7,000 wins
· 1 h 10 min
Only 10 jockeys in the entire history of Thoroughbred racing have amassed 7,000 or more victories. One of them is Delaware native and longtime Midlantic riding stalwart Mario Pino. Mario Pino joins us for an exclusive interview on this episode of Midlantic Racing Today, powered by The Racing Biz. Pino entered the last week of his riding career needing five wins to become racing's 10th 7,000-race w...
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Father-son training duo dishes on racing and life
· 44 min
Veteran trainer Gregory Sacco has won more than 900 races, including nine graded stakes, in a long career. Now his son -- and top assistant -- Will is looking to carry on a multi-generation family legacy. Gregg and Will Sacco join us for an exclusive interview on this episode of Midlantic Racing Today, powered by The Racing Biz. The Saccos will see barn star Crazy Mason try his luck against sprint...
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Scouting out Charles Town Classic night
· 49 min
The biggest night of the year at Charles Town Races arrives Friday, and we've got you covered. Paul Espinosa, Charles Town track announcer and morning line maker, joins this episode of Midlantic Racing Today, powered by The Racing Biz. The Classic has drawn a field of 10, including prior winners Skippylongstocking (2023-2024) and Banishing (2025), along with last year's runner-up, Willy D's. And...
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Autism Awareness day and Delaware Park's #1 fan
· 1 h 17 min
Matt Halter, a 20-something racing fan who also happens to be autistic, has become Delaware Park's #1 fan. That's in part due to his mom's social media presence and even more to his own unquenchable enthusiasm. Matt's mom, Megan Halter, joins us today on Midlantic Racing Today, powered by The Racing Biz. Matt Halter’s racing journey began with a pony, a blaze, and a Kentucky Derby winner. Where it...
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David Walters' "Premium" filly and a racing lifetime
· 1 h 01 min
David Walters is, in training terms, something of a ladies' man: his best horses include fillies and mares like Carnival Chrome, Longfield Star, and Cuppa Mocha Mojo. Now he might have the best one of his long career: the three-year-old Great Notion filly At a Premium. Walters, the brother of Maryland-based trainer Henry Walters, joins this episode of Midlantic Racing Today, powered by The Racing...
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Chasing 5,000 wins!
· 47 min
Trainer Jeff Runco is just 50 wins shy of 5,000 career triumphs and three victories short of being in the top 10 all-time. How has he done it? Jeff Runco is our guest today on this episode of Midlantic Racing Today, powered by The Racing Biz. Runco's career resume includes a stint as a jockey, wins in the first two editions of the Charles Town Classic, and a record-setting night at the 2021 West V...
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Carol Cedeno on comebacks, kids, and more
· 46 min
Jockey Carol Cedeno suffered a scary injury last September at the Meadowlands but recovered well enough to resume riding in March and April. Still, she saved the first win of her comeback for her return home, to Delaware Park. Cedeno joins us on today's Midlantic Racing Today, powered by The Racing Biz. A six-time leading jockey at Delaware Park, Cedeno has balanced motherhood and riding to fashio...
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What's the future hold for the Preakness?
· 40 min
In this exclusive interview, we catch up with Maryland horse racing insider TK Kuegler, who's a member of the board of directors of racetrack operator the Maryland Jockey Club and president of Maryland Million. Is he lamenting Maryland's exclusion from the new racing "championship series"? Or does he see the future as so bright he's gotta wear shades? Kuegler appears on this special episode of Mid...
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What's up at Delaware Park
· 23 min
You never know what you might see in a two-year-old stakes race. Just a few years ago, Jaywalk won the White Clay Creek at Delaware Park, and that helped launch her to an Eclipse Award as best 2-year-old filly after winning the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies. Delaware has a pair to baby stakes on offer Saturday, the Dover for the boys and the Blue Hen for the girls. We'll preview those with Stan...
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Catching up with the WV-bred Horse of the Year's trainer
· 1 h 05 min
Teachintherelease dominated West Virginia-bred foes in 2025, winning the year's biggest state-bred race, the $300,000 Sam Huff WV Breeders' Classic by 14 lengths en route to earnings state-bred Horse of the Year honors. His trainer, Stephen Murdock, joins today's episode of Midlantic Racing Today, powered by The Racing Biz. Teachintherelease returned to action for the first time since last Decembe...
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On the Thoroughbred aftercare beat with Bev Strauss
· 1 h 20 min
The average Thoroughbred racehorse's career lasts from age two or three to maybe seven or eight. Yet they often live for another 20 years or more. But what happens after the race is over? Bev Strauss, cofounder of Mid-Atlantic Horse Rescue, has worked to answer that question for more than 25 years. In that time, her organization has rescued more than 2,600 retired racers. Strauss joins us on today...
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Balancing trainer life and mom life
· 44 min
Building a business can be a full-time job. Training horses can be a full-time job. And being a mom to a three-year-old? Yup, that's another full-time job. Charles Town trainer Kristy Gazzier balances all of these. With a couple dozen horses in her growing stable, 10 wins on the season to date, and some youngsters working towards their first starts, she's one to watch at Charles Town. And that's s...
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On the backstretch with a jockey agent
· 52 min
A jockey agent's job is really more than one job. It's like a combination of agent -- connecting jockeys, trainers, and horses -- with a bit of coach and, sometimes, a touch of parent. John Weilbacher, who's done a wide variety of backstretch jobs, plies his trade these days as the agent for Delaware-based journeyman riders Martin Chuan and Kevin Gomez, along with apprentice Emanuel Rosario. Weilb...
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Building from the bottom up with trainer Stacey Viands
· 59 min
Stacey Viands didn't start out to be a trainer. He wanted to learn more about the business, so he went to work for Ronney Brown as a hotwalker, a groom, and later Brown's assistant. Viands appears on this episode of Midlantic Racing Today. Viands sent out his first starter in 2006, picked up his first winner in 2007, and now has 338 career victories with purse earnings of more than $5.8 million. H...
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What next for HISA?
· 1 h 02 min
Today on Midlantic Racing Today: The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act (HISA) was found earlier this month by the US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to be unconstitutional. But the 6th Circuit found the opposite. That likely sets up a fight at the Supreme Court over the horse racing law. Now what? What is the court likely to do? Why do some horsemen want to get rid of it? And what comes next if...
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A lawyer/trainer on the Delaware backstretch?
· 1 h 14 min
It's a safe bet that there aren't too many lawyers on the backstretch at Delaware Park. But it's a sure thing that there's at least one. Ted Maher, who trains a two-horse stable at Delaware, pays his bills as an attorney. But his passion for racing keeps drawing him back. He appears on this episode of Midlantic Racing Today. Maher has served as a groom for Hall of Famer Bill Mott, galloped horses...
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