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An early arrival of winter forced the cancellation of Thursday's nine-race program at Laurel Park. Horses were at the gate for the first race when the decision - Saratoga Bob, a half-length winner of the $150,000 Maryland Million Classic in his previous start, makes his return in a $45,000 second-level optional claimer
- While the eyes of the racing world were focused on Justify's successful quest to become the 13th Triple Crown champion, Maryland's horsemen received some
- Prado, a longtime rider on the Maryland circuit, won aboard Anthony Merlino’s Thefundsarelow in the sixth race Tuesday at Parx in Bensalem, Pa.
- With trainer Chad Brown not expected until later in the week, assistant trainer Jose Hernandez works out Kentucky Derby runner-up Good Magic Tuesday at Pimlico.
- Isabelle de Tomaso's homebred Irish War Cry gets another chance to regain that winning form as an older horse in Friday's $300,000 Pimlico Special at Pimlico Race Course.
- Hall of Fame jockey Edgar Prado, who has won 24 riding titles in Maryland and rode 2006 Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro, has been named the honorary postmaster
- With 6,997 career victories, Edgar Prado needs three to reach 7,000, a mark met by just seven other jockeys. Named to ride two horses Thursday and two Friday, Prado could hit that goal by Preakness Day (May 19).
- Four-time Paralympic medalist McKenzie Coan (Loyola Maryland, S7) and six-time Paralympic medalist Becca Meyers (Timonium, S13) helped give the United States women their second sweep of the 100-meter freestyle at the World Para Swimming World Series in Indianapolis.
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- Digest: Honor the Fleet dominant winner in Laurel feature
- Fan-favorite filly Crabcakes and Maryland-raised jockey Nik Juarez starred at the 2017 Jim McKay Maryland Million.
- Digest: Wisconsin's Tom Monsoor wins pro bass tournament on Potomac
- Digest: Locals well represented in annual Major League Lacrosse college draft
- Calvin Borel built a successful career by sticking close to the rail, but the Hall of Fame jockey left the rail as soon as he could Saturday at Laurel Park while riding Ivan Fallunovalot in Saturday's $250,000, Grade 3 Frank J. De Francis Memorial.
- Gabby Gaudet's betting tips and best bets for Sunday's race card at Laurel Park.
- With a Breeders' Cup berth at stake, Sagamore Racing, Allen Rosenblum and The Club Racing LLC's Miss Temple City became the first filly in 22 years to win the $1 million Grade 1 Shadwell Turf Mile Stakes on Saturday at Keeneland in Lexington, Ky.
- Gabby Gaudet's betting tips and best bets for Sunday's race card at Laurel Park.
- Stuart S. Janney III's homebred Grade 3 winner Onus kept her perfect local record intact with a victory in Saturday's Lady Baltimore at Laurel Park.
- Stan Salter's betting tips and analysis for Saturday's race card at Laurel Park.
- M & D Stables homebred Eyeplayeveryday ($19) took the lead in midstretch and held off a closing English Minister to capture the $75,000 Find Stakes at Pimlico Race Course on Saturday.
- Stan Salter's analysis and betting tips for Sunday's race card at Pimlico Race Course.
- Stan Salter's analysis and best bets for Saturday's race card at Pimlico Race Course:
- Stan Salter's betting tips and analysis for Thursday's race card at Pimlico Race Course.
- The Preakness comes near the end of a busy day at Pimlico Race Course, with 12 races before and another one after. Here's a running breakdown of what happens in
- Horse racing is a contact sport steeped in risk: men and women hunched on 1,000-pound animals thundering around tight turns at 50 miles an hour. Falls are inevitable; injuries, a given. But head trauma has long been shrugged off by the industry. Jockeys often ride out concussions rather than forego a paycheck. And track owners have largely ignored the more subtle but sinister injuries in a community they consider a transient hodgepodge of independent contractors.
- Ten years later, Barbaro's injury remains the most haunting image in Preakness history — that titan of a horse tentatively jabbing his right hind leg at the dirt, realizing the shattered limb would not bear his weight.
- Gabby Gaudet's race-by-race analysis for Friday's race card at Pimlico Race Course.
- Trainer Kenny McPeek will more than likely point The Truth or Else toward the Belmont Stakes on June 6.
- Roy and Gretchen Jackson make Divining Rod their first Preakness entry since Barbaro.
- Results from each horse race on Preakness Day, Saturday, May 17, 2014 at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland.
- Jockey John Velazquez claimed Friday's Xpressbet Hall of Fame Jockey Challenge as part of Black-Eyed Susan Day.
- Most riders accept the risk of injury in a business that could hardly be more hazardous. While tracks provide jockeys with insurance coverage, there is no long-term care. The Jockeys' Guild says one in five jockeys gets injured and misses work in a given year.
- Earl Weaver, Buddy Beardmore and Walter Alston are part of The Sun Remembers This Week in Sports for June 9 to June 15
- In a foreshadow to the Preakness, trainer D. Wayne Lukas and jockey Gary Stevens got their first victories of the day in the Dixie Stakes.
- Savage-based Kroop's Goggles supplies racing eyewear for the world's top jockeys, including those riding at the Belmont Stakes this weekend.
- Kent Desormeaux will return to his racing roots in Maryland when he rides Saturday in the 137th Preakness Stakes, while two other Hall of Famers, Edgar Prado and Ramon Dominguez, will be back at Pimlico, the track that served as their proving ground.
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- Shared Account will be a long shot again at Breeders' Cup. Trainer Graham Motion believes mare from Sagamore Farm could be primed for another upset in Filly and Mare Turf.
- Shared Account will be a long shot again at Breeders' Cup. Trainer Graham Motion believes mare from Sagamore Farm could be primed for another upset in Filly and Mare Turf.
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