A $2 million-guaranteed Late Pick 4, encompassing the most important and historic stakes held at Pimlico on Preakness Day, is a good sequence we’re hoping doesn’t chalk out. Here’s how we’ll play…
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Although the post-time favorite recently went on a long and unprecedented winning streak in the Kentucky Derby (G1) (2013-18), the Preakness (G1) is generally considered the more formful of the three Triple…
The dozen contenders expected in Saturday’s Preakness (G1) bring notable pedigrees into the Middle Jewel of the Triple Crown. Although none is by a Preakness winner, three are grandsons of champions who’ve…
by NICOLE SCHIVELEY A wise person once said, “Sometimes you have to be knocked down lower than you’ve ever been in order to stand taller than you were before.” We see it…
For the first time since 1951, the principals from the Kentucky Derby (G1) are all absent from the Preakness (G1). But if the Middle Jewel doesn’t lend itself so much to a…
As has become more often the case in recent years, “new shooters” will outnumber Kentucky Derby (G1) participants when the field for the $1.5 million Preakness (G1) takes to the track at…
When first thinking about the “Race of the Year” topic, I couldn’t settle on just one. Enable’s historic victory in the Breeders’ Cup Turf (G1) was on the short list, for the…
In June 1972, Riva Ridge was firmly on top of the US Thoroughbred world, less than 10 days after the arrival of July, the entire racing season surprisingly began to change.