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.
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More than two dozen runners, including graded stakes horses and runners from the Kentucky Oaks, are nominated to the G2 Black-Eyed Susan.
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, in the money all three career starts but with just a maiden win, must “step up” to factor in the Preakness, his trainer says.
Two-year-old champion Essential Quality, a close-up fourth in the Kentucky Derby, will bypass the Preakness, as will Lexington winner King Fury.
Concert Tour, who skipped the Kentucky Derby after finishing third in the Arkansas Derby, will make his next start in the Preakness.
Rombauer, the show horse in the Blue Grass Stakes after winning the El Camino Real Derby, is Preakness-bound, his trainer said.
For an eight-day period around the Preakness, the Maryland Jockey Club will not allow Laurel-based horses to work-and-go at Pimlico.
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