Welcome to our 2021 Mid-Atlantic Triple Crown Trail page, where you can follow all of the Triple Crown action!
KENTUCKY DERBY – Medina Spirit
PREAKNESS STAKES – Rombauer
BELMONT STAKES – Essential Quality
LATEST NEWS
Preakness profile: Mystik Dan
Our Preakness Profiles return for Preakness 149 set for May 18, 2024. Here, we profile Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan.
Experts’ Preakness Stakes picks
It’s Preakness day in Maryland. Who’ll win the big race? How to make sense of it? We asked our experts.
PREAKNESS ENTRIES
- Simplification (6-1)
- Creative Minister (10-1)
- Fenwick (50-1)
- Secret Oath (9-2)
- Early Voting (7-2)
- Happy Jack (30-1)
- Armagnac (12-1)
- Epicenter (6-5)
- Skippylongstocking (20-1)
PREAKNESS NEWS
Gallorette: Motion hoping Crystal Cliffs set for big outing
Trainer Graham Motion has 11 horses set to run at Pimlico over Preakness weekend, including Crystal Cliffs in the G3 Gallorette.
Ethereal Road among key Sir Barton contenders
While trainer D. Wayne Lukas is known for taking big swings, with 3-year-old Ethereal Road he’s taking a more conservative path.
Adare Manor favored in wide-open Black-Eyed Susan
A bulky field of 13 will face the starter in Friday’s Black-Eyed Susan, including morning line favorite Adare Manor and local hopeful Luna Belle.
Epicenter installed as 6-5 Preakness favorite
Epicenter installed as 6-5 Preakness favorite Saturday's 147 Preakness Stakes (G1) at Pimlico Race Course following Monday's post-position draw for the Middle Jewel of the Triple Crown. The Steve Asmussen-trained...
Pizza Bianca headlines Hilltop Stakes
Pizza Bianca headlines Hilltop Stakes Bobby Flay’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Filly Turf (G1) winner from last year Pizza Bianca will headline the 50th running of the one-mile $100,000 Hilltop Stakes Friday at...
Preakness: Un Ojo’s out, who’s in
The foot bruise that kept one-eyed Un Ojo out of the Kentucky Derby will also keep him out of the Preakness. Here’s who is coming to Baltimore.
Shake Em Loose will skip Preakness, run in Murphy
Private Terms Stakes winner Shake Em Loose, under Preakness consideration, will skip that race and run in the grassy James Murphy instead.
Eric Reed: “If it was four weeks, we’d have been” in Preakness
Trainer Eric Reed said Saturday the decision to bypass the Preakness with Derby winner Rich Strike was “absolutely” because of the short turnaround time.
Beyond the Wire to receive Special Award of Merit
Beyond the Wire, the Maryland Thoroughbred industry’s aftercare program, will receive a special award of merit at the Alibi Breakfast.
