triple crown

Maryland incoming freshman Diamond Stone has been named one of 24 players invited to participate in the USA Basketball men's under-19 world championship team training camp.

American Pharoah arrived in New York on Tuesday with four days remaining until the Belmont Stakes. American Pharoah is vying to become horse racing's 12th Triple Crown winner and first since 1978.

By Childs Walker

Jun 2, 2015

As with most debates involving sports, there are varying reasons for the absence of a Triple Crown champion racehorse over the past 37 years. It has as much to do with bank accounts as bloodlines, yet trying to pinpoint the main reason is as elusive as the achievement itself.

By Don Markus

Jun 1, 2015

For the past 37 years, Belmont Park has been where horse racing¿s grandest dreams have gone to die.

By Childs Walker

May 31, 2015

He wasn't the biggest or fastest horse, but Affirmed won the Triple Crown in 1978 by beating arch-rival Alydar at every turn.

By Childs Walker

May 31, 2015

Belmont Stakes hopeful Tale of Verve took to the Belmont Park main track early Saturday morning in Elmont, N.Y., to log his final breeze in advance of the $1.5 million race Saturday.

Trainer Kenny McPeek will more than likely point The Truth or Else toward the Belmont Stakes on June 6.

Trainer Bob Baffert was pleased with Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner American Pharoah's workout on Tuesday as he prepares for the Belmont Stakes.

Harford County Bar Foundation raised $9,000 at its first "Run for the Roses: A Kentucky Derby Party" held May 2 at MaGerk's Pub & Grill in Bel Air.

Preakness and Pimlico like peas and carrots

Godolphin Racing's Frosted, who was fourth in the Kentucky Derby on May 2, will run in the Belmont Stakes on June 6, the colt's trainer, Kiaran McLaughlin, said Thursday.

To let the Preakness, its jobs, its income and the attention in brings to Baltimore slip away down the road for some technical business reasons is not how we do things. That's not how we solve our problems. And that kind of thinking is not what made us great.

Allow me to send a facetious thank-you to Sal Sinatra, the general manager of Pimlico Race Course who, just a week after one of the worst periods in Baltimore's history, publicly raised the idea of moving the Preakness out of town. Great, and thank you very much. This city is in pain, and, just as the Preakness approaches, with its restorative potential as a great Baltimore event, here comes Sinatra, making statements about moving the big race to Laurel.

By Dan Rodricks

May 20, 2015

Two more horses have been added to the mix, raising to 10 the number of rivals American Pharoah winner could face in the Belmont Stakes on June 6.

To hear Preakness organizers and the owners of Maryland's Pimlico and Laurel Park racetracks tell it, the second jewel of the Triple Crown is only one piece, albeit an important one, of the state's broader racing culture.

By Jon Meoli

May 19, 2015

As city officials pledged a fight to keep the Preakness in Baltimore, others pointed out Monday that state law prohibits the horse race from being moved to another track in Maryland.

By Pamela Wood

May 18, 2015

Even though neither offspring of his stallion Malibu Moon took a top spot in the 140th running of the Preakness Saturday, Josh Pons, of Bel Air, is glad to see the sport of horse racing come into the national spotlight following American Pharaoh's victory in the second leg of the Triple Crown.

Horse racing's latest Triple Crown threat left the home of the series' middle jewel Monday morning.

By Alexander Pyles

May 18, 2015

Here are 11 things we learned from Preakness 2015

By Sean Welsh

May 17, 2015

American Pharoah left no doubts about his status as the pre-eminent 3-year-old of a gifted crop after winning the 2015 Preakness Stakes. Now the question is whether he can handle the war of attrition that will culminate with a Triple Crown shot on June 6 in the Belmont Stakes.

By Childs Walker

May 17, 2015

The sports fan known as "Marlins Man," who generated widespread curiosity and Internet fame when he sat behind home plate for the World Series, positioned himself at the finish line at the end of the 140th running of the Preakness on Saturday.

By Colin Campbell

May 16, 2015

¿I knew from the start that it just wasn't happening,¿ Firing Lien trainer Simon Callaghan said.

By Jon Meoli

May 16, 2015

Morning-line long-shot Tale of Verve charged down a muddy homestretch past a trio of Kentucky Derby contenders to take second, seven lengths behind Triple Crown aspirant American Pharoah, in his first stakes race.

By Jon Meoli

May 16, 2015

Despite fans in the grandstands being cleared as the skies rumbled with thunder and flashes of lightning danced in the near distance, the second leg of racing's Triple Crown continued on a 1 3/16-mile track that resembled a giant slip-and-slide rather than the stage for a dominant seven-length victory.

By Don Markus

May 16, 2015

American Pharoah swept to a commanding victory — and kept alive hopes for an elusive Triple Crown — as Baltimore eagerly embraced the 140th Preakness Stakes' boisterous day-long festivities, which came less than three weeks after the city was torn by riots and looting.

By Jeff Barker

May 16, 2015

American Pharoah proved he can win from a bad post position and on a muddy track in the 2015 Preakness.

By Peter Schmuck

May 16, 2015

The third Saturday in May was like any other. The grandstand at Pimlico Race Course was a bouquet of fancy hats and the infield was awash in live music, cheap beer and parimutuel tickets that fell like snow after every race. Normalcy returned to Baltimore in the form of the 140th Preakness, a rite of spring that came at just the right time for a city that spent much of the past month in anguish and turmoil.

By Peter Schmuck

May 16, 2015

After brokering the sale of Mr. Z, trainer D. Wayne Lukas got into the 140th Preakness, looking for his 15th win in a Triple Crown race

By Don Markus

May 16, 2015

Now 80, Bobby Ussery is the last surviving jockey of any Preakness winner from 1960 or earlier.

By Mike Klingaman

May 16, 2015

Alex's Lemonade Stand, with a boost from a racehorse named Afleet Alex, has raised more than $100 million to fight pediatric cancer.

By Mike Klingaman

May 16, 2015

It will take a lot of bad luck in the 2015 Preakness for American Pharoah to have a bad run and not win, experts say.

By Childs Walker

May 15, 2015

Firing Line came very close to being the Triple Crown candidate with a strong performance at the Kentucky Derby, and the planets have aligned almost perfectly for him to upset American Pharoah in the Preakness.

By Peter Schmuck

May 15, 2015

Roy and Gretchen Jackson make Divining Rod their first Preakness entry since Barbaro.

By Jonas Shaffer

May 14, 2015

The fast-growing Under Armour, a Baltimore-based sports apparel and footwear brand, and its ambitious founder and CEO, Kevin Plank, have embraced the Preakness, the city's largest, splashiest sporting event and the second leg of horse racing's Triple Crown. The two brands have become increasingly entwined.

By Jeff Barker

May 14, 2015

Bob Baffert, trainer for Derby winner American Pharoah and Dortmund, who finished third, said both took to the Pimlico Race Course track well.

By Jon Meoli

May 14, 2015

Friday's $250,000 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes an important prelude to the middle jewel of horse racing's Triple Crown, as it is critical to the financial viability of Maryland racing.

By Don Markus

May 14, 2015

American Pharoah is a brilliant horse, admired by all the wisest observers in the racing game. But the Kentucky Derby champion is always a sensation during Preakness week. What sets this year apart is the presence of two challengers in Firing Line and Dortmund who gave the champ all he wanted at Churchill Downs.

By Childs Walker

May 14, 2015

Moving the second jewel of the Triple Crown to Laurel sounds appealing, but it would destroy the tradition that is the race's chief asset.

The 140th running of the Preakness is Saturday in a northwest Baltimore neighborhood that lacks easy access to major highways, among other things.

Danzig Moon and Mr. Z — both sired by Malibu Moon — represent a quarter of the Preakness' eight-horse field.

By Jon Meoli

May 13, 2015

It had to be one of those what-are-the-odds moments for trainer Bob Baffert, and we're not talking about the fact that Kentucky Derby winner American Pharoah was set as a 4-5 morning line favorite for the 140th running of the Preakness on Saturday at Old Hilltop. Baffert, who said before Wednesday's race draw that he is always "post-position sensitive," ended up with both Pharoah and third-place Derby finisher Dortmund stacked 1-2 on the rail.

By Peter Schmuck

May 13, 2015

"Racing the Times," making its television debut at 9 p.m. Friday on MPT, offers a detailed and loving look at the history of horse racing in Maryland, going back more than 250 years.

By Chris Kaltenbach

May 13, 2015

2015 Preakness has an eight-horse field with American Pharoah a 4-5 favorite and Dortmund and Firing Line the second choices at 7-2.

By Childs Walker

May 13, 2015

It may, in fact, be a barely disguised mint julep. And I'm perfectly fine with that. It's horse-racing season after all.

Todd Pletcher announced Tuesday that none of his horses, including Materiality, will run in the Preakness

By Don Markus

May 12, 2015

With the post-position draw for the 2015 Preakness Stakes coming Wednesday, a few questions remain about the field that will challenge Kentucky Derby winner American Pharoah.

By Childs Walker

May 11, 2015

Five key storylines heading into the 2015 Preakness

By Childs Walker

May 10, 2015

Trainer Dallas Stewart and owner Charles Fipke's decision on Tale of Verve's status for the 140th Preakness next Saturday at Pimlico Race Course likely will rest on their analysis of last Saturday's Kentucky Derby.