Keep It Easy Cutting Back for Return in $150,000 Chick Lang
Romans-Trained Colt Faces 10 Rivals in 6F Sprint for 3YOs Saturday BALTIMORE – Trainer Dale Romans has some advice for people handicapping the 50th running of the listed $150,000 Chick Lang Saturday at Pimlico Race Course: don’t overlook Keep It Easy. Since the colt owned by St. Elias Stable and West Point Thoroughbreds was eased […]
Lightly Raced Invictus Formidable in $100,000 Sir Barton
Among 10 Stakes, Five Graded, Worth $3.3M Preakness Day BALTIMORE – Though he has the smallest resume, Invictus will carry the highest profile into the 27th running of the $100,000 Spendthrift Farms Sir Barton sponsored by Spendthrift Farm to benefit the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance Saturday at Pimlico Race Course. The 1 1/16th-mile Sir Barton, named […]
Journalism Looking ‘Fine’ Galloping Over Pimlico Track
Casse Hopes Sunny Skies Await Sandman Preakness Day Baffert’s Key to Preakness Record is Saddling Best Horse BALTIMORE – Eleven minutes into an interview session Wednesday morning outside the Stakes Barn at Pimlico, Michael McCarthy, trainer of Preakness Stakes (G1) morning line favorite Journalism, noticed that Bob Baffert had joined the scrum. McCarthy stepped back […]
Gosger Hopes Namesake Hits Home Run in Preakness
Former Major League Player Jim Gosger rooting for Preakness Contender BALTIMORE – This is the story of an obscure big-league baseball journeyman from a half-century ago and the Preakness Stakes (G1) horse that bears his name. Jim Gosger is the former ballplayer, now an 82-year-old Michigan man who bounced around the Majors in the ‘60s […]
Journalism Brings ‘Special Talent’ into Saturday’s Preakness 150
Five Hall of Fame Trainers Stand in Way of Derby Runner-Up BALTIMORE – Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners, Bridlewood Farm, Don Alberto Stable, Robert LaPenta, Elayne Stables 5 LLC, Mrs. John Magnier, Michael Tabor and Derrick Smith’s Journalism looms as a strong favorite for Saturday’s 150th Preakness Stakes (G1) at Pimlico Race Course, two weeks after coming […]