In a new Off the Pace: A filly favored. A controversy for the ages. A drunk knocks himself out. Mike Valiante will never forget his first Preakness.
Trainer D. Wayne Lukas, whose Triple Crown career began with a controversial win over a filly, will try to get a Preakness win with a filly in Secret Oath.
In a new “Off the Pace”: Mike Valiante remembers four editions of the Preakness where the final quarter-mile proved absolutely thrilling.
Our 2020 Preakness Memories series kicks off with the controversial Codex, who beat the filly who stole the nation’s heart.
Thirty-nine years before “The Great Derby DQ” came another controversial stewards’ decision, when the stews left Codex up in the 1980 Preakness.