In this Preakness memory, Nick Hahn recounts the tale of Scrappy T, who nearly brought his local connections from triumph to tragedy in two jumps.
Assistant starter Chris Campitelli and the rest of the gate crew have one of the toughest unsung jobs in the game: making sure a bunch of skittish horses settle and break cleanly. Teresa Genaro gets the lowdown (with video).
This year’s running of the Pimlico Special marks three great anniversaries for the race, including the 75th anniversary of one of racing’s greatest contests: the Seabiscuit-War Admiral match race.
At the pre-Preakness Alibi Breakfast, laughs, lox, and Black-Eyed Susans flow freely. And maybe an alibi or two.
With more than a dozen stakes during Preakness weekend, Maryland Jockey Club stakes coordinator Coley Blind and his crew have their hands full to make sure the fields are full. That’s why “trying harder” is something of a mantra for them.
One participant in Saturday’s Md. Hall of Fame induction said he’d have done anything for the horse inducted. Frank Vespe ponders why that would be.
The point system to qualify for the Kentucky Derby may have a negative impact on the Virginia Derby — two months later and on a different surface. Nick Hahn examines why.
Sometimes all it takes to find a soft landing for a racehorse is a little — well, a lot — of persistence. Teresa Genaro tells the story of one such retired Thoroughbred.
Plenty of good racing news doesn’t make it into the public eye. But one group in Maryland is doing what it can to promote the retraining of Thoroughbreds for other disciplines, and Richard Hackerman reports that they’re making a difference — they did to him.
“I couldn’t stand up. I had to sit down,” said Mike Pons after Orb’s Kentucky Derby win. To understand why, you have to start at the beginning.
Cigar and Elkridge are this evening’s featured inductees into the Maryland Thoroughbred Hall of Fame.
Wednesday’s been fairly quiet in Preakness-land, with the most exciting news being that nominations are up for the 16 other stakes that will run that weekend at Old Hilltop.
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