Preakness Profile: Mr. Big News In the days leading up to Saturday’s 145th Preakness, usracing.com will be publishing profiles of the 11 horses entered in 2020’s final leg of the Triple Crown. By ...
By Ed McNamara Robert Wyndham Walden is a name you’ll be hearing often this week, and you’ll probably wonder why. The Maryland-based trainer died in 1905, 65 years before he was elected to horse r...
By Miriam Lee When Milton Sanford bought a yearling sired by eventual Hall of Famer Lexington–Bay Leaf, by The Promised Land from A. J. Alexander, he named the colt Preakness. Preakness was the ...
By Miriam Lee 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 S...
By Miriam Lee Two years before the first Kentucky Derby, in 1973 Pimlico ran a stakes race for 3-year-olds during its first-ever spring race meet. Maryland governor Oden Bowie named the race, whic...
Preakness Profile: Art Collector In the days leading up to Saturday’s 145th Preakness, usracing.com will be publishing profiles of the 11 horses entered in 2020’s final leg of the Triple Crown. By...
Preakness Profile: Liveyourbeastlife In the days leading up to Saturday’s 145th Preakness, usracing.com will be publishing profiles of the 11 horses entered in 2020’s final leg of the Triple Crown...
Filly Swiss Skydiver, Odds for the Preakness Stakes By Ray Wallin It’s been an odd year, 2020. Nothing has seemed normal. Of course, there’s the COVID-19 pandemic that is changing the way we live....
Preakness Draw: Derby Winner Authentic Tabbed 9-5 Favorite in 11-Horse Field By Richard Rosenblatt After lots of last-minute decisions, the 145th Preakness (G1) is set – a field of 11 was entered Mo...
by John Furgele From 1991 to 2000, I taught social studies at the secondary level. As a teacher, one of the things you have to deal with is absenteeism. Teachers, administrators and politicians spend ...
