Racing News

Future is Bright for Lightly Raced Filly Goodgirl Badhabits

05/23/2024

Trainer Russell: ‘No Doubt That She’s Going to be a Stakes Winner’

BALTIMORE – Her comeback race successfully out of the way, it’s on to bigger and better things for talented but lightly raced 4-year-old filly Goodgirl Badhabits.

Owned by Jim Bakke and Gerald Isbister and based at Laurel Park with leading Maryland trainer Brittany Russell, Goodgirl Badhabits kicked off Preakness weekend in style with a head-turning six-length triumph May 16 at historic Pimlico Race Course.

Big Preakness Carryovers Friday at Pimlico

05/23/2024

Racing Returns Friday with $315,625 Rainbow 6 Carryover
Jackpot Super High Five Carryover of $258,786 in Race 6

BALTIMORE – Live racing resumes Friday to open the final weekend of the Preakness Meet at historic Pimlico Race Course with six-figure carryovers in the 20-cent Rainbow 6 and $1 Jackpot Super High Five wagers.

Post time for the first of eight races is 12:25 p.m.

California Crown Dreaming for Preakness & Dinner Party Winners

05/21/2024

$7.5 Million in Bonuses for Preakness 149, California Crown and Pegasus

BALTIMORE – While it is still four months away, the connections of Preakness Stakes (G1) winner Seize the Grey and Dinner Party (G3) winner Balnikhov are excited about the possibility of running for $7.5 million in bonus money come the Sept. 28 California Crown at Santa Anita Park.

DeVaux Earns Richest Preakness Weekend Trainer Bonus

05/19/2024

First Female to Top Standings Thanks to Friday Stakes Triple

BALTIMORE – Her first career three-win day, all in stakes, helped earn Cherie DeVaux the top prize of $50,000 in the Maryland Jockey Club’s $100,000 trainer bonus offered to horsemen for their participation in stakes races over Preakness weekend, May 17 and 18, at historic Pimlico Race Course.

Lukas: Preakness Hero Seize the Grey ‘Likely’ for Belmont Stakes

05/19/2024

Preakness Runner-Up Mystik Dan Headed to Spa But No Belmont Decision

BALTIMORE – Early Sunday morning, 11 hours after Seize the Grey delivered his Hall of Fame trainer his seventh victory in the Preakness Stakes (G1), age-defying D. Wayne Lukas, 88, was, per usual, looking ahead.

Seize the Grey Steals the Day for Lukas in 149th Preakness Stakes

05/18/2024

Longshot Gives 88-Year-Old Trainer Seventh Preakness Win

BALTIMORE – MyRacehorse’s Seize the Grey stole the day for Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas Saturday at Pimlico Race Course, delivering a seventh career Preakness Stakes (G1) for the 88-year-old trainer.

149th PREAKNESS STAKES (G1) QUOTES

05/18/2024

Winning Trainer D. Wayne Lukas (Seize the Grey): “I thought when he was cruising down the backside, I turned to my wife and said, ‘I think we’re home free.’ He was running over that ground so easy. I didn’t know how he’d handle (the track)

“It doesn’t get old. It’s still the same. In 1980 I had the first one here I ever ran, and it still feels the same.

149th Preakness Stakes Media Conference

05/18/2024

Saturday, May 18, 2024
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Pimlico Race Course

D. Wayne Lukas
Jaime Torres
Michael Behrens

Media Conference

SAMANTHA PERRY: We're going to go ahead and get started. If everybody can just get settled for just a moment.

We'll go ahead and get started. First, please direct the questions to me and who you want it directed to. I'll open the floor.

Balnikhov Goes Last to First in $500,000 Dinner Party (G3)

05/18/2024

First Graded Win at Pimlico for International Riding Star Dettori

BALTIMORE – Little Red Feather, Madaket Stables and Old Bones Racing Stable’s Balnikhov, who trailed the field in the early going, wrested a lead from Running Bee in mid-stretch and went on to register a 1 ½-length victory in Saturday’s $500,000 Dinner Party (G3) at historic Pimlico Race Course.

Grooms All Bizness Comeback Winner of Jim McKay Turf Sprint

05/18/2024

Five-Furlong Dash Marked First Race in Nine Months for New Gelding

BALTIMORE – Colts Neck Stables’ Grooms All Bizness, racing for the first time in nine months and as a gelding, powered through the stretch on the far outside to catch multiple-stakes winner Witty and edge clear by 1 ½ lengths in the $100,000 Jim McKay Turf Sprint Saturday at historic Pimlico Race Course.