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The Orioles fell 8-6 after a bad Chris Tillman start and three J.J. Hardy errors.

Trainers and jockeys who have been close to a Triple Crown discuss the difficulties as California Chrome runs for history at the Belmont Stakes on Saturday.

Rival trainers all say California Chrome is the best horse in the Belmont Stakes. But there are threatening contenders who could derail a Triple Crown bid.

The size of Belmont Park struck California Chrome's connections when they brought him to New York three days after his triumph in the Preakness Stakes.

The offensive line and defensive backfield were topics of conversation for the Ravens during OTAs yesterday, as the Orioles won their fourth straight.

Affirmed co-owner Patrice Wolfson says she's pulling for California Chrome to win the Triple Crown at Saturday's Belmont Stakes.

Social Inclusion will not run in Saturday's Belmont Stakes after another difficult morning working in the starting gate, owner Ron Sanchez said. He'll run in the Woody Stephens instead.

Triple Crown hopeful California Chrome drew the No. 2 post position for the Belmont Stakes and was named a 3-5 favorite on the morning line.

Maryland trainers have no doubt that California Chrome is the horse to beat at Saturday's Belmont Stakes. They also know that it won't be easy for him to complete the first Triple Crown since 1978.

It has been 36 years since racing's last Triple Crown winner, but for those involved with horses who have triumphed, the memories don't fade.

Triple Crown hopeful California Chrome breezed a half-mile in 47.69 seconds Saturday morning in his final serious move before the Belmont Stakes.

The five greatest obstacles to California Chrome completing his Triple Crown quest in the Belmont Stakes.

Ben's Cat will attempt to become the seventh Maryland-bred to reach the $2 million earnings mark when the King Leatherbury homebred competes in the Grade 3, $300,000 Jaipur Invitational at Belmont Park next Saturday.

As Triple Crown contender California Chrome went about his daily routine Saturday in preparation for the $1.5 million Belmont Stakes, a sizable field was shaping up to challenge the Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner.

Preakness and Triple Crown would win big if the Baltimore leg was run one week later

With the short-lived nasal strip controversy resolved and wins in two Triple Crown races on his resume, California Chrome left Pimlico Race Course shortly after 6 a.m. on Tuesday for Elmont, N.Y., where his connections plan to run the Preakness Stakes and Kentucky Derby champion in the Belmont Stakes on June 7.

California Chrome left for New York earlier this morning, officially wrapping up Preakness week.

Maryland Jockey Club President Tom Chuckas says he is rooting for California Chrome to win the Triple Crown — both for the health of the industry and the storyline.

Relaxing rules to make it easier for horses to compete would be an insult to past Triple Crown winners

Could a potential Triple Crown be upended by a nasal adhesive strip? Only in the arbitrary, maddening world of thoroughbred racing.

California Chrome trainer Art Sherman said that there "might be an issue" over a rule disallowing nasal strips at horse races in New York, where the Belmont Stakes is held.

California Chrome's trainer, Art Sherman, raised the rather startling possibility that his horse might not run in the Belmont Stakes because of New York rules barring a nasal adhesive strip the colt has used throughout his six-race winning streak.

A day after he won the Preakness, California Chrome's trainer Art Sherman said that a New York rule prohibiting nasal strips 'might be an issue' for his horse in the Belmont Stakes.

As "Bronco" Billy Gowan made his way back to the stakes barn at Pimlico Race Course on Saturday night, the trainer looked and acted as if his horse, Ride on Curlin, had just won.

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Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner California Chrome has just three weeks and 1 1/2 miles of racing ahead of him in his bid to become horse racing's 12th Triple Crown winner.

Picture-perfect day at Preakness

Twelve years after missing out on the Triple Crown in the final leg, Victor Espinoza is getting an improbable second chance. His horse, War Emblem, stumbled early in the 2002 Belmont Stakes and was never able to recover position. After winning the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness, the horse finished eighth in the Belmont.

After winning the Preakness on Saturday, California Chrome co-owner Steve Coburn made some pointed remarks about the way his group was treated at Churchill Downs for the Kentucky Derby.

Tom Chuckas, president and chief operating officer of the Maryland Jockey Club, said Saturday that he would like to see horse racing's Triple Crown events played out over two months, not five weeks.

Results from each horse race on Preakness Day, Saturday, May 17, 2014 at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland.

A second deluge in little more than two weeks is forecast to soak the region Friday, making for a miserable Black-Eyed Susan Day at Pimlico Race Course – though officials are confident in a fast track for a sunny and cool Preakness Stakes on Saturday.

California Chrome will be the Preakness favorite as he continues his quest to become the first Triple Crown winner since Affirmed in 1978.

If there's a heaven for horses, then California Chrome's great-great-grandsire will be peering down at Pimlico Race Course on Saturday to see whether his progeny can do what he did 50 years ago: win the Preakness and, with it, the first two legs of racing's Triple Crown.

Coley Blind, of Monkton, has needed all the good luck he can get. In a racing office abuzz with activity, he is responsible for putting together the stakes races on Maryland's biggest race day of the year, including the biggest race of all — this Saturday's 140th Preakness Stakes, the second leg of racing's Triple Crown.

California Chrome took a quick liking to the surface at Pimlico Race Course Tuesday in his first workout since arriving in Baltimore.

Ride on Curlin finished a distant seventh in the Kentucky Derby, yet he was treated like a rock star Monday on his trip from BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport to Pimlico Race Course.

After California Chrome took his first few steps on the grounds at Pimlico Race Course, he stopped to pose for photos just like the star he is.

If the horse racing world needed a little more evidence heading into Preakness week that the erstwhile "Sport of Kings" has turned a corner in Maryland, consider this scene on a misty Friday morning at the idyllic Fair Hill Training Center outside Elkton.

The field for the Preakness on May 17 is already taking shape, with Kentucky Derby champion California Chrome likely to face several threats he did not encounter Saturday at Churchill Downs.

A year ago, his horse, Golden Soul, finished second in the Kentucky Derby as a 34-1 underdog. On Saturday, the Kentucky-based trainer pulled off another second-place finish, this time with 38-1 underdog Commanding Curve.

All winter and spring, California Chrome kept getting better.

After a prep season that saw several would-be contenders fall by the wayside because of injuries or flat performances, California Chrome emerged as a consensus favorite heading to Kentucky.

Thoroughbred racing will resume at Pimlico Race Course on Thursday afternoon with a nine-race card to kick off the track's 35-day spring meeting, highlighted by Preakness Stakes 2014.