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
Muth installed as Preakness Stakes favorite
Bob Baffert will gun for a ninth Preakness Stakes with morning line favorite Muth, given the nod over Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan.
Tuscan Gold “in good shape” for Preakness date
Tuscan Gold is “in good shape” for Preakness 149, trainer Chad Brown said, and has a similar resume to Brown’s two other Preakness winners.
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
Risk Taking added to Preakness fray
Withers winner Risk Taking, seventh as the favorite in the Wood Memorial, will make his next start in the Preakness, trainer Chad Brown said.
Midnight Bourbon confirmed for Preakness
Midnight Bourbon, a rallying sixth in the Kentucky Derby, will face the starter in the May 15 Preakness, trainer Steve Asmussen said.
Mandaloun, Caddo River to skip Preakness
Trainer Brad Cox said today he would not start either Kentucky Derby runner-up Mandaloun or Arkansas Derby runner-up Caddo River in the Preakness.
Preakness day stakes noms released
Nominations for nine undercard stakes on Preakness day were released Thursday, with 244 total nominations.
Preakness: France Go de Ina well after 1st leg of trip
France Go de Ina, the Japan-based Preakness contender, is now quarantined in Los Angeles and slated to make the trip to Baltimore May 8.
Black-Eyed Susan draws 26 noms
More than two dozen runners, including graded stakes horses and runners from the Kentucky Oaks, are nominated to the G2 Black-Eyed Susan.
Keepmeinmind looking likely for Preakness
Keepmeinmind, who rallied from the rear to finish seventh in the Kentucky Derby, will likely run back in the Preakness, his trainer said.
Crowded Trade needs Preakness “step up”
Crowded Trade, in the money all three career starts but with just a maiden win, must “step up” to factor in the Preakness, his trainer says.
No Preakness for Essential Quality, King Fury
Two-year-old champion Essential Quality, a close-up fourth in the Kentucky Derby, will bypass the Preakness, as will Lexington winner King Fury.
