By US Racing Team Taxed had an easy time of it in the $300,000 Black-Eyed Susan (G2) at Pimlico Race Course on Friday, cruising past Hoosier Philly in the stretch for a 3 ¾-length victory with odds-o...
By US Racing Team Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert is the Preakness Stakes’ most successful active trainer with seven wins, including Triple Crown winners American Pharoah (2015) and Justify (2018)....
By US Racing Team The trophy presented to the winning connections of the Preakness Stakes is known as the Woodlawn Vase and is considered to be the most valuable trophy in sports, and the current appr...
The distance of the Preakness is 1 3⁄16 miles, or 9 1⁄2 furlongs or 1.88 kilometers, compared to the 1 ¼-mile Kentucky Derby, which is contested two weeks before the Preakness. It is ...
By US Racing Team When Milton Sanford bought a yearling sired by eventual Hall of Famer Lexington and out of Bay Leaf, by The Promised Land from A. J. Alexander, he named the colt Preakness. Preakness...
By US Racing Team Mage finally gets a measure of well-earned respect as the 8-5 favorite in the $1.65 million Preakness (G1) on Saturday at Pimlico. Eighteen horses saddled up for the Kentucky Derby (...
By US Racing Team The Triple Crown season should be the best of times in horse racing. This year, it’s hard to think of worse times. Yes, Mage was a popular winner of the Kentucky Derby (G1) on May ...
By US Racing Team Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Mage will face seven new rivals in the $1.65 million Preakness Stakes (G1) at Pimlico Race Course on Saturday, the first time in more than 50 years only on...
Attendance at the Preakness Stakes usually ranks second in North America behind the Kentucky Derby and usually surpasses the attendance of all other stakes races, including the Belmont Stakes, the Bre...
By US Racing Team In 1973 – two years before the first Kentucky Derby – Pimlico outside of Baltimore, Maryland, ran a stakes race for 3-year-olds during its first-ever spring race meet. Then g...
