Tango Tango Tango Seeks Graded Success in $150,000 Dinner Party (G2)
Among 10 Stakes, Six Graded, Worth $2.75 Million on Preakness Day Program BALTIMORE – The question facing Calumet Farm’s Tango Tango Tango in Saturday’s $250,000 Dinner Party (G2) at Pimlico Race Course is whether the 4-year-old colt is ready to win, win, win a graded stakes? The bay son of Tourist showed ability last year, […]
Luna Belle Facing Biggest Test in $250,000 Black-Eyed Susan (G2)
98th Running of 3-Year-Old Filly Stakes Tops Friday, May 20 Program 13-Horse Field is Largest for Race in Nearly Three Decades BALTIMORE – Undefeated through four starts this year and a winner of five consecutive stakes dating back before Christmas, Luna Belle will be tested like never before facing 10 shippers among the largest field […]
Epicenter Breezes for Saturday’s 147 Preakness
Oaks Winner Secret Oath, Lukas Enroute to Pimlico Fenwick Last-Minute Entry for Preakness BALTIMORE – Winchell Thoroughbreds’ Epicenter, the Kentucky Derby (G1) runner-up and expected favorite for Saturday’s Preakness Stakes (G1), breezed an easy half-mile in 50 2/5 seconds early Monday morning at Churchill Downs, a textbook workout for a Steve Asmussen-trained horse five days […]
Un Ojo Out of Preakness
BALTIMORE – Un Ojo will not enter in the Preakness Stakes (G1) after the foot bruise that kept the one-eyed gelding out of the Kentucky Derby flared back up. “This morning his foot was a little warm again,” Louisiana-based trainer Ricky Courville said Monday morning by phone. “The vets went over him, and he’s not […]
Exotic West Seeks Graded Success in $150,000 Allaire du Pont (G3)
Among Six Stakes, Four Graded, Worth $1.05 Million in Purses May 20 BALTIMORE – Well-traveled Exotic West, who has found success going two turns on dirt, will make her graded-stakes debut at historic Pimlico Race Course in Friday’s $150,000 Allaire du Pont Distaff (G3). Exotic West drew the rail in the field of six for […]
Pizza Bianca Looks to Return to Winning Ways in $100,000 Hilltop
Evenly-Matched Field of 11 to Contest $100,000 The Very One BALTIMORE – Bobby Flay’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Filly Turf (G1) winner from last year Pizza Bianca will headline the 50th running of the one-mile $100,000 Hilltop Stakes Friday at historic Pimlico Race Course. The Hilltop, for 3-year-old fillies, and the $100,000 The Very One for […]
Wesley Ward Aims for Second Straight Win in Miss Preakness (G3)
Happy Soul Faces Seven Rivals in $150,000 Dash for 3-Year-Old Fillies BALTIMORE – Trainer Wesley Ward won last year’s Miss Preakness (G3) with a blossoming filly that was light on credentials, Red Ghost. He’s hoping to win the race a second straight year with another – Gayla Rankin’s Happy Soul – that brings a more […]
Shake Em Loose Works on Turf Sunday, Will Skip Preakness (G1)
Sophomore Gelding Set to Run in $100,000 James W. Murphy on Grass BALTIMORE – It’s back to the grass for J R Sanchez Racing Stable’s Shake Em Loose after the claimer-turned-multiple stakes winner on dirt breezed over Laurel Park’s world-class turf course Sunday morning. Working in company with 6-year-old stakes-winning mare Can the Queen, Shake […]
First Captain Seeks Rebound in $300,000 Pimlico Special (G3)
Shares Spotlight with $250,000 Black-Eyed Susan (G2) May 20 Among Six Stakes, Four Graded, Worth $1.05 Million in Purses BALTIMORE – Grade 3 winner First Captain, exiting the first off-the-board finish of his career, will get an opportunity to rebound as well as give Hall of Fame trainer Shug McGaughey his first victory in the […]
Epicenter ‘Pretty Sharp’ for Saturday’s 147th Preakness
Creative Minister, Not Epicenter Sports Winchell Bloodlines ‘Oath’ Owner: ‘We’ll Step Outside the Box within Reason’ BALTIMORE – Winchell Thoroughbreds’ Epicenter, the Kentucky Derby (G1) runner-up and probable favorite for Saturday’s 147th Preakness (G1) at Pimlico Race Course, had his penultimate training session at Churchill Downs Sunday morning before being vanned to Baltimore Tuesday. Epicenter […]