New Maryland Rulings Database Available

Horsemen looking for fair play at Maryland’s racetracks should be delighted with the July launch of the Maryland Thoroughbred Rulings website by the Maryland Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association.

The new site contains all rulings by Maryland stewards that have been handed out since Jan. 1, 2016, and will be updated regularly when MTHA receives this information from the Maryland Racing Commission.

“We created this as a service to our horsemen,” MTHA executive director David Richardson said. “It is a fully dynamic database that allows horsemen to view rulings as well as sort by person and/or infraction.”

The site can be accessed from mdhorsemen.com or directly at: http://mdhorsemen.com/data/public/rulings/index.php

Richardson said the MTHA created the website after receiving numerous inquiries from horsemen about where to easily find information on the Maryland stewards rulings.

 “We found that these local rulings are commingled on other websites only for a short period of time. That’s not very helpful to my guys when they wanted to know what’s going on in Maryland,” Richardson said. “We decided to create in-house an easy to use, modern online database in an effort to have complete transparency and eliminate information traveling from word-of-mouth. These days, the more transparent and accessible you can make things, the better.”