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Maryland State Fair meet at Timonium
The month of May is typically a busy one for the Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium, Md., which serves as the host of the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-Year-Olds In Training Sale after the Preakness Stakes. However, this May in particular, and the months that follow, figure to be the busiest in recent memory.
The temporary closure of Laurel Park and its backstretch for racing surface repair has scattered its horsemen to tracks and training centers in the surrounding area, and the fairgrounds will absorb some of that horse population as a training center a role the track doesn t regularly play on a full-time basis.
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Hip 492, a Tapit filly out of Gomo, at the 2021 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale.
The Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream Selected 2-Year-Olds In Training Sale is one of the most unforgiving marketplaces on the North American auction calendar, offering windfalls for the flawless specimens in the catalog and relative crickets for the ones that leave even one box unchecked.
Fortunately, the auction s early placement on the calendar offers the horses that didn t jump through every single hoop a chance to regroup and find the right fit at the right price somewhere down the road.
The patience to wait for that second chance paid off for the de Meric Sales operation, which consigned the session-topper during Tuesday s closing session of the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-Year-Olds In Training Sale, a Tapit filly out of the Grade 1-winning Uncle Mo mare Gomo who brought $625,000 as Hip 492.
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Maryland wasted little time vaccinating its 12- to 15-year-olds following the Food and Drug Administration s approval of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for that cohort.|| COVID-19 updates | Maryland s latest numbers | Get tested | Vaccine Info ||Mass vaccination sites in Maryland are already taking appointments for pre-teens and teenagers. Maryvale Preparatory School in Brooklandville began Thursday vaccinating some of its youngest learners. We had timed this for today, but we were watching the opening, if they were going to make the move from 12 to 15. It was perfect. As of 3:30 yesterday afternoon, we were able to open it up, said Tracey Ford, the school s principal.Maryland online vaccination site locatorVaccine Data DashboardMaryland vaccination plan FAQsAnd apparently, the clinic s opening came not a moment too soon. I was very excited because the rest of my family is vaccinated, said Brynne Dalrymple, a student.And it didn t take long for that excitement to spread across ca
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During a meeting with the Board of Public Works Wednesday morning, Gov. Larry Hogan announced all eligible Marylanders can get vaccinated without appointments at any of the 13 mass vaccination sites.
As of Wednesday, Maryland has reported 4,996,199 total vaccinations. According to official CDC data, 62.5% of Marylanders 18 and older, and 85% of Marylanders 65 and older, have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, reads part of the news release.
“We are in a new phase of our vaccination effort where we are focused on making sure that no arm is left behind,” reads a message from Hogan. “Walk-ups have been an incredibly successful tool, and we are now able to make them available at all of our mass vaccination sites across the state. The sooner we get more Marylanders vaccinated, the sooner we can put