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: Red Route One
Our Preakness Profiles return for Preakness 148 set for May 20, 2023. Here, we profile Bath House Row Stakes winner Red Route One.
Preakness profile: National Treasure
Our Preakness Profiles return for Preakness 148 set for May 20, 2023. Here, we profile Federico Tesio winner Perform.
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
Captain Bodgit, Maryland’s near-miss star
Twenty years ago, Captain Bodgit finished second in the Kentucky Derby and third in the Preakness. Combined margin of defeat: two heads.
Always Dreaming “ready to roll” as Preakness preparation ends
Always Dreaming is “ready to roll,” trainer Todd Pletcher said after the colt’s final day of preparation for the Grade 1 Preakness.
For one owner, “a nostril” of Always Dreaming is plenty
Lisa Bell, a small partner in Always Dreaming, says all she owns is “a nostril” – but that doesn’t make the experience any less amazing.
Undulated looks to stretch out in Murphy
Undulated will look to stretch out to a mile for trainer Cal Lynch in Saturday’s Jimmy Murphy Stakes on the Preakness undercard.
Dottie Miller’s Preakness Photo Diary
Photographer Dottie Miller has spent the last week on the Pimlico backstretch. Here’s what she and her camera have seen.
Preakness odds, post positions; Always Dreaming 4-5
Always Dreaming has been installed as the 4-5 morning line favorite for Saturday’s Preakness Stakes, and Classic Empire is 3-1.
Talented sophs Recruiting Ready, Three Rules to tangle in Chick Lang
Three-year-olds Recruiting Ready and Three Rules will square off in an intriguing renewal of the Chick Lang Stakes Saturday at Pimlico.
McPeek on Senior Investment: “You tee ’em up and you find out”
If Senior Investment is to make an impact on the Preakness, the added distance from his last start — and the time since — will be key, says Ken McPeek.
Exercise rider Leiva making a life in his adopted country
Exercise rider Peter Leiva counts Preakness contender Cloud Computing among his charges – quite a journey for the kid who came here from Chile at 19.
