Grade 3 winner Beautiful Gift, trained by Bob Baffert, has been installed as the morning line favorite for the Grade 2 Black-Eyed Susan Friday at Pimlico.
Willful Woman, a winner of two of her last three starts, will try hunting bigger game in Friday’s Grade 2 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes.
Lady Traveler is Grade 3-placed but still in search of her first stakes win, which trainer Dale Romans hopes will come in the G2 Black-Eyed Susan.
More than two dozen runners, including graded stakes horses and runners from the Kentucky Oaks, are nominated to the G2 Black-Eyed Susan.
Miss Marissa set fast fractions and held off the late run of the favorite to win the Grade 2 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes at Pimlico.
For fillies Perfect Alibi, Project Whiskey, and So Darn Hot, Saturday’s Black-Eyed Susan Stakes offers a bit of redemption after some recent frustration.
Bonny South, winner of the G2 Fair Grounds Oaks and second in the G1 Alabama, is headed to the G2 Black-Eyed Susan, trainer Brad Cox said.
The Black-Eyed Susan Stakes, typically the anchor of the Preakness eve card, will instead take place on Preakness day this year.
The Maryland Jockey Club has announced several national stakes as automatic qualifiers for the Preakness and other May stakes at Pimlico.
Point of Honor rallied to win the G2 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes Friday at Pimlico for her third win in four starts.