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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Horsemen will be forced to vacate Laurel Park following the Preakness, horsemen learned Friday, and may not be allowed back until July.
With high winds, including gusts up to 60 miles per hour, the Maryland Jockey Club was forced to cancel its April 30 card after three races.
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Exculpatory, a dramatic first-out maiden winner, returns to action in a Friday allowance, and his trainer has high hopes.