Green Spring Valley Point-to-Point - April 2, 2011
Elkridge-Harford Point-to-Point - April 9, 2011
My Lady's Manor - April 16, 2011
Maryland Grand National - April 23, 2011
Maryland Hunt Cup - April 30, 2011
Maryland Junior Hunt Cup - May 1, 2011 
Howard County-Iron Bridge Race - May 7, 2011
Potomac Races - May 15, 2011

The opening of the Maryland timber racing season signifies the true start of spring to many Marylanders. For three weekends in late April, thousands of asphalt-bound city denizens will walk on grass for the first time since last fall as they join their country cousins to follow the colors of the amateur jockeys flying over timber fences in three or four-mile races that are true tests of man and horse.

Steeplechase races over timber, as a Maryland tradition, are not as venerable as fox hunting, which goes back to Colonial days, but the records go back nonetheless some 100-plus years. And few sports can boast the tradition of family participation which characterize these races. How better to spend an afternoon of early spring?

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