
Rodman: In Preakness, expect the unexpected
Pimlico track announcer Dave Rodman has seen — and is ready for — just about everything that can happen on a Preakness (or any other) day.

Pimlico track announcer Dave Rodman has seen — and is ready for — just about everything that can happen on a Preakness (or any other) day.

Monmouth Park will open Saturday with an 11-race card highlighted by the grassy Wolf Hill Stakes.

Trainer Keith Nations will have 40 horses at Delaware Park, where his operation thrived in 2016.

Quality Road and Bodemeister sired the Oaks-Derby double last weekend — quite a feat for a pair of Virginia-breds whose own Derby dreams were dashed.

Gunnevera has been confirmed as a Preakness runner, and that means a first chance to try crabcakes for assistant trainer Alex Sano.

Kentucky Derby champ Always Dreaming woke up at Churchill Downs, and one flight, and one police escort, later he arrived at Pimlico looking bright-eyed and happy.

Who’s The Man? The Man, who’s won three straight with consummate ease, may well be the man.

Always Dreaming was 9-2 when he won the Kentucky Derby. What’ll he be in the Preakness? Recent races provide some guidance.

Trainer Steve Asmussen may bring a pair of runners from the Kentucky Derby to Baltimore for the Preakness: runner-up Lookin At Lee and 11th place finisher Hence.

Total wagering on Laurel Park’s just-concluded winter meeting was up more than 20 percent versus 2016, with average daily handle up 15 percent.

Pimlico’s opening day Thursday will coincide with the return from injury of jockey Victor Carrasco, who missed about five weeks with a fractured scapula.

Jim McCue, Maryland track photographer for nearly 50 years, will receive the award Preakness week for his service to the racing industry.
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