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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: Preakness Stakes, Kentucky Derby, Belmont Stakes, Equestrian
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Kwame Kwei-Armah keeps his vow to bring Center Stage national exposure
Kwame Kwei-Armah is turning up the floodlights on Center Stage. It's been not quite two years since the British-born playwright became artistic director of Maryland's largest regional theater. With his production of two button-pushing dramas nicknamed...
Tags: PBS (tv network), Pulitzer Prize Awards, Mount Vernon, Imperial and Royal Matters, Colleges and Universities
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Preakness 2013 shaping up to be another great showcase for Baltimore
You take your good news where you get it and here's mine: the Preakness sent Kegasus packing. You remember Kegasus. Sleaze-ball centaur with the biker haircut and beer gut? Budweiser-swilling centerpiece of the Infield Fest ad campaign the past two...
Tags: Preakness Stakes, Kentucky Derby, The Jockey Club Incorporated, Pimlico Race Course, Kegasus (fictional character)
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8 horses committed to Preakness 2013 field with Normandy Invasion dropping out
Orb's path to the finish line in the second leg of the Triple Crown remains uncrowded. Normandy Invasion, the fourth-place finisher in the Kentucky Derby, dropped from contention for Saturday's 138th running of the Preakness on Sunday. Trainer Chad...
Tags: Lasix (drug), Chemical Industry, Big Brown, Churchill Downs, Under Armour Inc.
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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: Preakness Stakes, Kentucky Derby, Belmont Stakes, Equestrian
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Turcotte cherishes 40th anniversary of Secretariat's Triple Crown
Hall of Fame jockey Ron Turcotte is savoring the 40th anniversary of Secretariat's amazing Triple Crown performance in 1973, and why not? It was the ride of his life. "I had a wonderful career," Turcotte said on Tuesday. "I was the leading rider...
Tags: Secretariat (movie) , Preakness Stakes, Kentucky Derby, ESPN (tv network), Belmont Stakes
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Long wait continues for next Triple Crown winner
Horse racing fans talk about their sport not having a Triple Crown winner in nearly 35 years much the way baseball fans lament the fact that their favorite game has gone more than twice as long without a .400 hitter. Undoubtedly, in the days leading...
Tags: John R. Velazquez, Pimlico Race Course, Robby Albarado, Churchill Downs, Preakness Stakes
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Preakness starters Orb, Titletown Five have a history
Baltimore Sun Media GroupOne of the colts entered in Saturday’s 138th running of the Preakness Stakes can lay claim to a distinction not shared by seven others: He’s actually finished ahead of the expected favorite Orb in a race. Titletown Five, one of three...Tags: Preakness Stakes, Kentucky Derby, Gulfstream Park, Equestrian, Churchill Downs
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Taking a look back at some predictions to see if I was right [Commentary]
To paraphrase early Beat Generation fringe member and longtime UPI editor Lucien Carr, a good news story should "turn the reader on, or make them cry." Well, I'm not going to touch the first of those two, but, apparently, my last column did make some...Tags: Preakness Stakes, Kentucky Derby, Mother's Day, Equestrian, Churchill Downs
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Triple Crown thoroughbreds aren't running as fast
As Orb charged to the wire at Churchill Downs last weekend, he established his clear superiority to the other 18 thoroughbreds on horse racing's biggest stage, the Kentucky Derby. But compared to Derby champions of the past, Orb's time is less...
Tags: NBC (tv network), Swimming, Pimlico Race Course, 2012 Summer Olympics, Track and Field
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The newest thing in Maryland horse racing: optimism
The Kentucky Derby winner and oddsmakers' favorite for the Preakness Stakes isn't exactly a Maryland horse, but he's close — Orb is partially owned by a Baltimore County businessman, and his sire spent some time in Harford County. Attendance at...
Tags: The Jockey Club Incorporated, Pimlico Race Course, Laurel Park, Government, Finance
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Orb and Departing roamed the same field before becoming racehorses
They likely won't recognize each other Saturday as they go to the gate for the 138th Preakness. Orb, the Kentucky Derby winner, and Departing, a horse some believe could be the only one capable of ending this year's Triple Crown chase in Baltimore, will...
Tags: Preakness Stakes, The Jockey Club Incorporated, Kentucky Derby, Pimlico Race Course, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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