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Can the Queen Reigns in $100,000 The Very One

05/20/2022

Can the Queen Reigns in $100,000 The Very One
Local Mare Registers Second Stakes Win in Turf Dash

BALTIMORE – Joanne Shankle’s Can the Queen, based down the road at Laurel Park, went all the way on the lead and held off favored Honey Pants late to spring a 1 ½-length upset over the New York shipper in Friday’s $100,000 The Very One at historic Pimlico Race Course.

Lady Scarlet Makes the Grade $150,000 Miss Preakness (G3)

05/20/2022

Sophomore Filly, Claimed for $150k Last Fall, Sprints to Win

BALTIMORE – Paradise Farms Corp. and David Staudacher’s Lady Scarlet, who had a two-race win streak snapped in her previous start, returned to her winning ways with her first graded-stakes triumph in Friday’s $150,000 Miss Preakness (G3) at historic Pimlico Race Course.

Pizza Bianca Delivers Convincing Victory in $100,000 Hilltop

05/20/2022

First Win for 4-Year-Old Filly Since 2021 Breeders’ Cup Upset

BALTIMORE – Bobby Flay’s homebred Pizza Bianca, upset winner of the 2021 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1), swept to the lead down the center of the track and pulled clear for a 1 ¾-length triumph in Friday’s $100,000 Hilltop at historic Pimlico Race Course.

Super Quick Blazes to Near-Record $150,000 Allaire du Pont (G3) Win

05/20/2022

First of 6 Stakes, 4 Graded, Worth $1.05 Million on Black-Eyed Susan Card

BALTIMORE – Marylou Whitney Stables’ homebred Super Quick, left alone up front to dictate her own terms, flirted with both the track and stakes record while rolling to her first stakes victory in Friday’s $150,000 Allaire du Pont Distaff (G3) at historic Pimlico Race Course.

Winchell Seeks First Win in Triple Crown with Epicenter

05/20/2022

Asmussen: Can’t Speculate How the Preakness Will Unfold
McPeek Taking Another Shot with Creative Minister

BALTIMORE – While Steve Asmussen has trained two winners of the Preakness Stakes (G1), owner Ron Winchell is still seeking his family’s first victory in any Triple Crown race.

Tami Bobo Takes Unlikely Road to Preakness 147

05/20/2022

Simplification’s Owner Living American Dream

BALTIMORE – A few minutes into an interview about her Preakness Stakes (G1) runner Simplification, Tami Bobo noticed that the groom was having a problem. She quickly stepped toward the colt, grabbed his halter and helped settle him. A potentially difficult situation was averted.

Treasure Trove Making Return Trip to Friday’s Pimlico Special (G3)

05/19/2022

Beguine Getting Chance on Big Stage for 95-Year-Old Owner-Breeder
Advance Wagering Friday for Entire Preakness Stakes Day Program

BALTIMORE – His connections may be different, but James Wolf’s Treasure Trove will find himself in familiar surroundings when he makes his return to graded-stakes competition in Friday’s historic $300,000 Pimlico Special (G3) at Pimlico Race Course.

Epicenter Ready for 1st Road Game in Preakness

05/19/2022

Rosario: ‘He Did Everything’ but Win in Derby
Creative Minister Makes His Way into Main Event
Lukas: Secret Oath Training Better than Before Oaks

BALTIMORE – With trainer Steve Asmussen’s premier division spending the winter stabled in New Orleans and most of the rest of year in Louisville, favored Epicenter will play his first road game in Saturday’s 147th Preakness Stakes (G1) at Pimlico Race Course.

D. Wayne Lukas Keeps Rolling Along

05/19/2022

Hall of Fame Trainer Has No Plans to Slow Down

BALTIMORE – The resume of Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas is about as long as the stretch at Pimlico Race Course. Maybe longer.

Where to start? How about right here, at Old Hilltop?

The Preakness Stakes (G1), the signature event on the Maryland racing calendar, has been the personal playground for Lukas for years. When he comes to the races on Saturday, Lukas will be bringing his popular, mega-talented 3-year-old filly Secret Oath to the $1.65 million race.

Pierre and George Lorillard: Kings of the Preakness in the Gilded Age

05/18/2022

BALTIMORE - In the three decades following the Civil War, rich men with outsized ambitions began to shape the future of America. Captains of industry or robber barons, depending on your perspective, they built a country on industrialization, steel, railroading and untethered capitalism.

With all the miserable North-South bloodshed out of the way, the wealthiest Americans got down to the business of doing what they really wanted – to make money and have a good time.