They came at Justify in waves in Saturday’s Preakness Stakes, but though there were four in the photo, he prevailed in the second leg of the Triple Crown.
Trainers Steve Asmussen and Graham Motion came to Pimlico this Preakness loaded for bear — and both left with important hardware.
It was five years between graded stakes wins for trainer Kellyn Gorder, who scored today in the Grade 2 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes with Red Ruby.
In his first Triple Crown race on his own, young trainer Rodolphe Brisset is making sure to enjoy the Preakness experience with his runner, Quip.
Once a $5,000 claimer, Oak Bluffs may enter the McKay Turf Sprint as a logical contender for trainer Mary Eppler.
Justify was installed as the 1-2 morning line favorite for Saturday’s Preakness Stakes, plus the full field’s odds and post positions.
The undefeated Goodonehoney is headed to the Black-Eyed Susan Stakes and providing her owner-breeder, and her trainer, “the time of our life.”
It was a nondescript race on a nondescript day, but it produced a special moment when jockey Edgar Prado won his 7,000th career race in a claiming tilt at Parx Racing Tuesday.
Good Magic galloped at Pimlico Tuesday morning, the third Preakness contender to do so, and his connections like what they see from the Derby runner-up.
The Supreme Court ruled that the law banning states from allowing sports betting is unconstitutional; Monmouth Park cheered, while the NTRA greeted the news warily.