Big Preakness Carryovers Friday at Pimlico
Racing Returns Friday with $315,625 Rainbow 6 CarryoverJackpot Super High Five Carryover of $258,786 in Race 6 LAUREL, MD – Live racing resumes Friday to open the final weekend of the Preakness Meet at historic Pimlico Race Course with six-figure carryovers in the 20-cent Rainbow 6 and $1 Jackpot Super High Five wagers. Post time […]
California Crown Dreaming for Preakness & Dinner Party Winners
$7.5 Million in Bonuses for Preakness 149, California Crown and Pegasus LAUREL, MD – While it is still four months away, the connections of Preakness Stakes (G1) winner Seize the Grey and Dinner Party (G3) winner Balnikhov are excited about the possibility of running for $7.5 million in bonus money come the Sept. 28 California […]
DeVaux Earns Richest Preakness Weekend Trainer Bonus
First Female to Top Standings Thanks to Friday Stakes Triple LAUREL, MD – Her first career three-win day, all in stakes, helped earn Cherie DeVaux the top prize of $50,000 in the Maryland Jockey Club’s $100,000 trainer bonus offered to horsemen for their participation in stakes races over Preakness weekend, May 17 and 18, at […]
Lukas: Preakness Hero Seize the Grey ‘Likely’ for Belmont Stakes
Preakness Runner-Up Mystik Dan Headed to Spa But No Belmont Decision LAUREL, MD – Early Sunday morning, 11 hours after Seize the Grey delivered his Hall of Fame trainer his seventh victory in the Preakness Stakes (G1), age-defying D. Wayne Lukas, 88, was, per usual, looking ahead. Lukas said that it was likely that the […]
Seize the Grey Steals the Day for Lukas in 149th Preakness Stakes
Longshot Gives 88-Year-Old Trainer Seventh Preakness Win LAUREL, MD – MyRacehorse’s Seize the Grey stole the day for Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas Saturday at Pimlico Race Course, delivering a seventh career Preakness Stakes (G1) for the 88-year-old trainer. “It doesn’t get old. It’s still the same. In 1980, I had the first […]
149th Preakness Stakes Media Conference
Saturday, May 18, 2024Baltimore, Maryland, USAPimlico Race Course D. Wayne LukasJaime TorresMichael Behrens Media Conference SAMANTHA PERRY: We’re going to go ahead and get started. If everybody can just get settled for just a moment. We’ll go ahead and get started. First, please direct the questions to me and who you want it directed to. […]
149th PREAKNESS STAKES (G1) QUOTES
Winning Trainer D. Wayne Lukas (Seize the Grey): “I thought when he was cruising down the backside, I turned to my wife and said, ‘I think we’re home free.’ He was running over that ground so easy. I didn’t know how he’d handle (the track) “It doesn’t get old. It’s still the same. In 1980 […]
Balnikhov Goes Last to First in $500,000 Dinner Party (G3)
First Graded Win at Pimlico for International Riding Star Dettori LAUREL, MD – Little Red Feather, Madaket Stables and Old Bones Racing Stable’s Balnikhov, who trailed the field in the early going, wrested a lead from Running Bee in mid-stretch and went on to register a 1 ½-length victory in Saturday’s $500,000 Dinner Party (G3) […]
Grooms All Bizness Comeback Winner of Jim McKay Turf Sprint
Five-Furlong Dash Marked First Race in Nine Months for New Gelding LAUREL, MD – Colts Neck Stables’ Grooms All Bizness, racing for the first time in nine months and as a gelding, powered through the stretch on the far outside to catch multiple-stakes winner Witty and edge clear by 1 ½ lengths in the $100,000 […]
Photo Finish Goes to Corporate Power in $100,000 Sir Barton
Edges Gould’s Gold by Nose in 1 1/16-Mile Stakes for 3-Year-Olds BALTIMORE – Courtlandt Farm’s Corporate Power, making just his fourth start and first in stakes company, got his nose down on the wire and emerged from a three-way photo finish a thrilling winner of Saturday’s $100,00 Sir Barton sponsored by Brandon and Diannah Perry […]