
Pimlico picks and ponderings May 21, 2021
John Piassek has coverage of today’s 9-race Pimlico card!

John Piassek has coverage of today’s 9-race Pimlico card!

Sosua, a flashy first-out winner at Tampa, ran his record to two-for-two with a game triumph in the allowance feature Thursday at Pimlico.

We catch up with final facts, figs, and miscellany from the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2yo sale, including new sires and a familiar face returns.

Jessica Paquette, formerly on-air handicapper at Boston’s Suffolk Downs, will fill that role in 2021 at Colonial Downs.

The combination of his sire Fiber Sonde and mares by Indian Charlie has been a major factor in John McKee’s recent success – and that looks to be continuing.

John Piassek shares his thoughts on today’s 8-race Pimlico card here.

The carryover in the Jackpot Pick 6 at Pimlico is more than $560,000, the highest it’s ever reached. Racing resumes Thursday.

It’s been one thing after another in racing the last couple of weeks, and our Teresa Genaro wonders if it’ll all be enough to make racing take action.

Online sales company Wanamaker’s has released the catalog for its next offering, which takes place May 27.

The Fasig-Tipton two-year-old sale which concluded today saw across-the-board gains, as $33 million in horses were sold.

Saturday’s NBC broadcast of the 146th Preakness Stakes garnered the event’s highest ratings since 2018, 29% above the 2019 event.

The trainer who died in 1949 and the dog who died in 1974 are among the many, many ghosts of Pimlico who’ll need a place of honor when renewal comes.
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