Pierre and George Lorillard: Kings of the Preakness in the Gilded Age
BALTIMORE – In the three decades following the Civil War, rich men with outsized ambitions began to shape the future of America. Captains of industry or robber barons, depending on your perspective, they built a country on industrialization, steel, railroading and untethered capitalism. With all the miserable North-South bloodshed out of the way, the wealthiest […]
Epicenter ‘Energy Level is Good’ for 147th Preakness
Early Voting Gets Acquainted with Pimlico Racetrack Alex Sano: ‘It’s Like a Movie that Never Ends’ Lukas Looks Back at 1st Preakness Win BALTIMORE – Winchell Racing’s Epicenter, the 6-5 morning-line favorite for Saturday’s $1.65 million Preakness Stakes (G1), jogged a mile around Pimlico Race Course’s oval early Wednesday, his first morning in town after […]
In Bobo We Trust:’ Exercise Rider Brigmon Handles Smith’s Stars
Divine Huntress Representing Maryland in Black-Eyed Susan (G2) G2 Winner Cilla Favored to Give Brinkman First Pimlico Stakes Win BALTIMORE – Ten years after going to the Kentucky Derby (G1) with one of Hamilton Smith’s best colts, James ‘Bobo’ Brigmon finds himself at historic Pimlico Race Course for Preakness weekend with one of the trainer’s […]
Luna Belle Carries Late Breeder’s Legacy to Black-Eyed Susan (G2)
‘I Think of Him Every Race:’ Daughter Deborah Says of Fred Greene Jr. BALTIMORE – Of all the pictures on Deborah Greene’s phone, there’s one that holds the most special of meanings. Taken in the spring of 2019 it shows her father, then 92, gently holding the lead while standing over one of his newest […]