D. Wayne Lukas Keeps Rolling Along
Hall of Fame Trainer Has No Plans to Slow Down LAUREL, MD – 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 […]
Pierre and George Lorillard: Kings of the Preakness in the Gilded Age
LAUREL, MD – 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 […]
Epicenter ‘Energy Level is Good’ for 147th Preakness
Early Voting Gets Acquainted with Pimlico Racetrack Alex Sano: ‘It’s Like a Movie that Never Ends’ Lukas Looks Back at 1st Preakness Win LAUREL, MD – Winchell Racing’s Epicenter, the 6-5 morning-line favorite for Saturday’s $1.65 million Preakness Stakes (G1), jogged a mile around Pimlico Race Course’s oval early Wednesday, his first morning in town […]
In Bobo We Trust:’ Exercise Rider Brigmon Handles Smith’s Stars
Divine Huntress Representing Maryland in Black-Eyed Susan (G2) G2 Winner Cilla Favored to Give Brinkman First Pimlico Stakes Win LAUREL, MD – Ten years after going to the Kentucky Derby (G1) with one of Hamilton Smith’s best colts, James ‘Bobo’ Brigmon finds himself at historic Pimlico Race Course for Preakness weekend with one of the […]
Luna Belle Carries Late Breeder’s Legacy to Black-Eyed Susan (G2)
‘I Think of Him Every Race:’ Daughter Deborah Says of Fred Greene Jr. LAUREL, MD – Of all the pictures on Deborah Greene’s phone, there’s one that holds the most special of meanings. Taken in the spring of 2019 it shows her father, then 92, gently holding the lead while standing over one of his […]
Preakness Favorite Epicenter Arrives at Pimlico
Steve Asmussen Video Early Voting Completes Belmont-Pimlico Ship LAUREL, MD – Saturday’s Preakness Stakes (G1) favorite Epicenter arrived at Pimlico Race Course Tuesday shortly after 2 p.m. following his 10 1/2-hour van ride from Louisville, Ky. Scott Blasi, who oversees Hall of Fame trainer Steve Asmussen’s Churchill Downs division, was on hand to meet the […]
Tango Tango Tango Seeks Graded Success in $150,000 Dinner Party (G2)
Among 10 Stakes, Six Graded, Worth $2.75 Million on Preakness Day Program LAUREL, MD– The question facing Calumet Farm’s Tango Tango Tango in Saturday’s $250,000 Dinner Party (G2) at Pimlico Race Course is whether the 4-year-old colt ready to win, win, win a graded stakes? The bay son of Tourist showed ability last year, finishing […]
Joe, Shake Em Loose Return to Grass in $100,000 James W. Murphy
Multiple Stakes Winner Carotari Tops $100,000 Jim McKay Turf Sprint LAUREL, MD – After meeting twice on dirt, round three of the Joe vs. Shake Em Loose series will take place on turf Saturday in the $100,000 James W. Murphy Stakes on the Preakness (G1) undercard at Pimlico Race Course. The one-mile test for 3-year-olds, […]
The Woodlawn Vase: Sport’s Most Unique Trophy
Video LAUREL, MD – The Woodlawn Vase, presented to the winners of the legendary Preakness Stakes (G1), has long been considered one of the most intricate, unique, and expensive trophies in all of sport. Designed in 1860 by Tiffany & Co. for the Woodlawn Racing Association in Louisville, Ky., the vase has a colorful history […]
Louisiana Trainer Seeking First Graded Win in Chick Lang (G3)
Brett Brinkman Has High Hopes for Old Homestead in Six-Furlong Dash LAUREL, MD – Trainer Brett Brinkman overcame a severe bout of Covid that landed him in the hospital not long ago. Fully recovered, the Louisiana-based horseman now hopes to wind up in the Pimlico Race Course winner’s circle Saturday with what would be his […]
