Preakness Candidates Medina Spirit, Concert Tour Arrive at Pimlico

Lukas-Trained Ram Travels to Pimlico in Record Time BALTIMORE – Medina Spirit and Concert Tour, candidates for Saturday’s 146th Preakness Stakes (G1), completed their journey from Churchill Downs to Pimlico Race Course Monday afternoon shortly after 2 p.m. Under the direction of veteran assistant trainer Jimmy Barnes, the pair of 3-year-olds were led off the […]

Horologist Seeks Good Time in $150,000 Allaire du Pont (G3)

Among Six Stakes, Four Graded, Worth $1 Million in Purses BALTIMORE – Five-time stakes winner Horologist will go after her fourth career graded triumph and third in six starts when she makes her Pimlico Race Course debut in Friday’s $150,000 Allaire du Pont (G3). The 28th running of the 1 1/8-mile du Pont for fillies […]

‘Big Test’ for Street Lute in $150,000 Miss Preakness (G3)

Among Six Stakes, Four Graded, Worth $1 Million in Purses BALTIMORE – Lucky 7 Stables’ Street Lute, already a six-time stakes winner from just nine starts, will make the jump to graded-stakes competition for the first time in the $150,000 Miss Preakness (G3) Friday, May 14 at Pimlico Race Course. The 36th running of the […]

Harpers First Ride Returns for $250,000 Pimlico Special (G3)

Shares Spotlight with $250,000 Black-Eyed Susan (G2) May 14 Among Six Stakes, Four Graded, Worth $1 Million in Purses BALTIMORE – His owner, trainer and jockey will be different, but the scenery will be the same for Harpers First Ride when the defending champion returns to the site of his biggest victory in the historic […]

Adventuring, Miss Leslie Seeks Graded Win in Black-Eyed Susan (G2)

97th Running of 3-Year-Old Filly Stakes Tops Friday, May 14 Program BALTIMORE – Godolphin homebred Adventuring, riding a two-race win streak for reigning Eclipse Award-winning trainer Brad Cox, and BB Horses’ Miss Leslie, a local stakes winner in her only two tries around two turns, each make the jump into graded company in Friday’s $250,000 […]

Midnight Bourbon Breezes; Asmussen ‘Jazzed’ for Preakness

France Go de Ina Gets Acquainted with Pimlico Track Keepmeinmind Back on Track for Saturday’s Middle Jewel Brown Putting Risk Taking’s Disappointing Race Behind Him BALTIMORE – Winchell Thoroughbreds’ Midnight Bourbon had the easy workout typical of a Steve Asmussen-trained horse five days before a race, covering the half-mile distance in 50.20 seconds at Churchill […]