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Rosie Napravnik will ride Code West in Belmont Stakes
The Baltimore SunRosie Napravnik will get another shot at history in the Belmont Stakes — just aboard a different horse than in her previous two Triple Crown races. On Thursday, trainer Bob Baffert announced that Napravnik will mount Code West in the Belmont...Tags: Triple Crown, New York Racing Association, Rosie Napravnik, Preakness Stakes, Kentucky Derby
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Screening horses for ailments, doping ahead of Preakness a 'sophisticated' task
In a pair of low-slung green stables manned by security guards and watched by 24-hour surveillance cameras, a pack of brawny young horses will be monitored, poked and assessed down to the blood in their veins. The horses set to race in the 138th...
Tags: Triple Crown, Laurel Park, Pimlico Race Course, Preakness Stakes, Kentucky Derby
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Kevin Krigger could ride into Preakness history as black jockey
The day after riding in the Kentucky Derby, Kevin Krigger packed his family and gear and headed for Pimlico Race Course — by way of Cincinnati. A woman there had captured his heart. She was Liliane Casey, 88, whose father, Jimmy Winkfield, was the...
Tags: Triple Crown, Horse and Harness Racing, Civil Rights, Racism, Laurel Park
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Oxbow's win, Lukas milestones overshadow Orb's disappointing Preakness finish
In the days leading up to Saturday's 138th running of the Preakness Stakes, favorite Orb's trainer, Shug McGaughey, said on a few occasions he felt his colt had yet to run his best race. After the gate opened at Pimlico and sent off the nine Preakness...
Tags: Triple Crown, Preakness Stakes, Horse and Harness Racing, NBC (tv network), Joel Rosario
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Legendary trainer D. Wayne Lukas likes Pimlico, and with good reason
D. Wayne Lukas, the Hall of Fame trainer, has started 37 horses in the Preakness. He expects to have three more — Will Take Charge, Oxbow and Titletown Five — go to the post Saturday for the 138th running of the middle jewel of the Triple...
Tags: Triple Crown, Preakness Stakes, Kentucky Derby
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As Orb gets set for Preakness, Bel Air's Mike Pons works the crowd
Mike Pons has had a busy week. For starters, Pons, who owns Country Life Farm in Bel Air with his older brother, Josh, was responsible for finding tickets for 80 assorted family members, friends and clients to attend Saturday's 138th running of the...
Tags: Triple Crown, Television Industry, Preakness Stakes, NBC (tv network), Kentucky Derby
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Upset win by Oxbow gives D. Wayne Lukas record 14th victory in Triple Crown race
He kept coming back, year after year, horse after horse, trying to get another victory in the Preakness Stakes before he was done. Going into the 138th running of the Triple Crown's middle leg, D. Wayne Lukas had tried eight times since Charismatic won at...
Tags: Triple Crown, Preakness Stakes, Pimlico Race Course, Kentucky Derby
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Fun-loving Team O'Neill experiencing a 'different vibe' at this year's Preakness
The one-liners never stop when you're around Team O'Neill. Sometimes all that's missing is a brick wall, a stool and a microphone stand. Take the other day, for instance. Jockey Kevin Krigger has Goldencents out for his regular morning gallop in...
Tags: Triple Crown, Preakness Stakes, Kentucky Derby
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Secretariat's Preakness run still looks brilliant on 40th anniversary
Secretariat was a star but not yet a legend when his van rolled up to Pimlico Race Course in the second week of May 1973. The big red horse had taken off like a rocket ship to run down the field at the Kentucky Derby, winning in less than two minutes, a...
Tags: Triple Crown, Red Smith, Ceremonies, Churchill Downs, Culture
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Jockeys call for increased disability insurance
Jerry Bailey can look back on a Hall of Fame jockey career that featured 5,892 victories but also the searing memory of 17 fractures, including a broken back, jaw and collarbone, and several busted ribs. Yet Bailey considers himself lucky. He never...
Tags: Triple Crown, Insurance, Laurel Park, Health Insurance, Physical Disabilities
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Jockeying for position
Behind a door just off the paddock area of Pimlico Race Course, several jockeys are prepping for the day's races. They're handicapping the competition, comparing notes on horses and, in at least one case, going through a yoga sequence: reaching back to...
Tags: Triple Crown, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, People (magazine), Physical Fitness and Exercise, Laurel Park
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Racetrack handicapper has fresh face, old-school approach
In the first week of her reporting internship for a horse-racing newspaper, Gabby Gaudet nervously approached one of the most celebrated figures in the sport. "Can you tell me how you first got involved in the game?" she asked Kelly Breen, who trained the...
Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Towson University, Prince George's County, CBS Corp., Bowie
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