
Tim Ritvo’s 10 percent solution
Want to understand Tim Ritvo’s approach to running the Maryland Jockey Club? It makes sense to look back to his training days for a guide.

Want to understand Tim Ritvo’s approach to running the Maryland Jockey Club? It makes sense to look back to his training days for a guide.

Nobody knows more about what the Preakness means to Maryland than state racing commissioner Bruce Quade, who shares a Preakness moment.

Trainer Mike Trombetta will send out Weber City Miss winner A P Majetstic and runner-up In the Navy Now in the Grade 2 Black-Eyed Susan.

Undefeated Kentucky Derby winner Nyquist was installed as the 3-5 morning line favorite and will break from post three in the Preakness.

Kentucky Derby champion Nyquist will eschew the tradition of saddling on the Pimlico turf course and instead be saddled inside, trainer Doug O’Neill said.

Robin Graham, a longtime fixture on the Laurel Park backside, will send two runners postward in Friday’s stakes races.

Ten years after Barbaro broke down in the Preakness and later succumbed to laminitis, fighting that disease remains a tricky, uncertain undertaking.

Trainer Larry Jones has experienced May highs — 3 Kentucky Oaks wins — and lows (Eight Belles’ breakdown). Can Midnight On Oconee provide a high in the Black-Eyed Susan?

What’s it like to ride (and be injured by) a Preakness runner? Maryland racing analyst Gabby Gaudet provides the answer in today’s Preakness Moments podcast.

Yet more horses arrived at Pimlico today for Saturday’s Preakness, while the connections of two contenders opted to pass on the Middle Jewel.

The Maryland Jockey Club will offer six mutli-race wagering pools worth a guaranteed $4.15 million on Preakness day, including a $2 million guaranteed Pick 4.

Jenny Bowman has been named Penn National racing secretary, joining Maryland’s Georganne Hale as one of a small group of female racing secretaries nationwide.
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