Union workers at Pimlico Race Course avert strike before Preakness by ratifying contract with pay raise

By Halethorpe on May 14, 2019

With days left before the horse racing world turns its eyes on Pimlico Race Course for the Preakness Stakes weekend, employees at the Baltimore track averted a threatened strike by approving a contract with the Maryland Jockey Club that provides their first pay raise in more than a decade.