Among the highlights while sifting through 2025 statistics on Maryland-bred runners and Maryland sires, which will appear in the March issue of Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred magazine:
* Mindframe was the richest Maryland-bred with $1,407,220 from five starts. Barbadian Runner was the richest of the 3-year-olds ($733,185) and ranked second overall.
* The all-time list of Maryland-bred millionaires grew to 34 as Mindframe, ranked ninth with $2,054,580, was added to the list. Post Time ($1,558,705) and Jaxon Traveler ($1,131,643) moved up the list, to 13th and 25th, respectively.
* 43 Maryland-bred won stakes, the third-most in the past 15 years (there were 50 in 2022 and 45 in 2021). Four were graded winners, three Grade 1: Mindframe ($1,000,000 Stephen Foster S-G1, $900,000 Churchill Downs S-G1, $200,000 Gulfstream Park Mile S-G2), Splendora ($1,000,000 Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint-G1), Seismic Beauty ($400,000 Clement L. Hirsch S-G1, $200,000 Santa Margarita S-G2) and Future Is Now ($250,000 Giant's Causeway S-G3, $175,000 Caress S-G3)
* Barbadian Runner had six stakes wins, timber star Keys Discount won five
* A total of 31 breeders bred a stakes winner, led by the late R. Larry Johnson with seven. Next was Stuart Grant's The Elkstone Group's three. Each was represented by a Grade 1 winner (Mindframe and Splendora)
* Great Notion was the region's leading sire by nearly $1 million, his 117 starters earning $5,320,455. He also led all 2-year-old sires with $731,648.
* Topping all regional sires by stakes winners were Great Notion, with nine, and Cupid (six)
* Cupid led both the Maryland general and 2-year-old sires lists by number of winners and wins
