Racing News

Trainer Calhoun Takes Another Step Forward in Career

09/28/2020
Saddles Mr. Big News in Saturday’s Preakness
 
LOUISVILLE - Bret Calhoun has accrued 3,192 victories and $86 million in purse earnings - both ranking 28th all-time in North America - in 26 years of training horses. The 56-year-old Texas product has won 42 graded stakes and 302 stakes overall. 
 

Authentic Favored at 9-5 for Saturday's Preakness Stakes

09/28/2020
Trainer Bob Baffert on Quest for Record 8th Preakness Win       
 
BALTIMORE – Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Authentic will headline a field of 11 3-year-olds entered Monday in the 145th Preakness Stakes (G1), which will bring down the curtain on a most unusual 2020 Triple Crown campaign Saturday at Pimlico Race Course.
 

Claiming Crown Prep Draws Competitive Fields

09/27/2020
Eight Races Friday Compliment Pimlico Special (G3)
 
BALTIMORE - A total of 76 horses were entered for the eight Claiming Crown prep races on the Pimlico Special (G3) program Friday, Oct. 2 at Pimlico Race Course.
 
In addition to guaranteed berths in the Claiming Crown, the Pimlico prep race winners will receive travel subsidies to the event to be held at Gulfstream Park on Saturday, Dec. 5.
 

Jesus' Team First Preakness Contender to Arrive at Pimlico

09/27/2020
BALTIMORE – Grupo Seven C Stable’s Jesus’ Team arrived at Pimlico Sunday afternoon, becoming the first contender for Saturday’s Preakness Stakes (G1) to step foot on the historic grounds known as Old Hilltop.
 
The son of Tapiture, who most recently finished third in the Sept. 5 Jim Dandy (G2) at Saratoga, arrived by van from Monmouth Park.
 

Lukas and Baffert: A Friendship Built on Trust and Respect

09/27/2020
Hall of Fame Trainers Work Together to Bring Derby Winner Authentic to Preakness 
 
LOUISVILLE - Bob Baffert has won more Triple Crown races than any trainer in history. So when he needed someone to oversee the preparation in Kentucky of his sixth Kentucky Derby (G1) winner, Authentic, during the weeks leading up to the Oct. 3 Preakness Stakes (G1), Baffert turned to the man whose record he broke. 
 

Swiss Skydiver Takes on the Boys in Preakness on Saturday

09/27/2020
Albarado Tabbed to Ride Multiple Graded-Stakes Winner
Ny Traffic Likely for Preakness Following Sunday Breeze
Derby Hero Authentic Slated to Breeze Monday at Churchill
 
BALTIMORE – Peter Callahan’s Grade 1 stakes-winning filly Swiss Skydiver will compete in the 145th Preakness (G1) at Pimlico on Oct. 3, trainer Kenny McPeek confirmed Sunday.

Defending Champ Tenfold Returns in Historic $250,000 Pimlico Special

09/27/2020
Owendale, Third in 2019 Preakness, Among Eight Foes in Friday, Oct. 2 Race  
 
BALTIMORE – Winchell Thoroughbreds’ Tenfold, who has enjoyed some of his finest career moments at Pimlico Race Course, will get the chance once again to display his affinity for the when he returns to defend his title in the historic $250,000 Pimlico Special (G3) Friday, Oct. 2. 
 

Completed Pass Seeks $100,000 Jim McKay Turf Sprint Repeat

09/26/2020
Wild About Star Returns for Title Defense in $100,000 The Very One
 
BALTIMORE – More than a year since becoming a stakes winner last spring over the same track, Robert D. Bone’s Completed Pass returns to Pimlico Race Course with sights set on a repeat victory in the $100,000 Jim McKay Turf Sprint Thursday, Oct. 1.
 

PREAKNESS 145 POST POSITION DRAW MONDAY AT NOON EASTERN

09/26/2020
Broadcast on Preakness Facebook Page
Interviews with Baffert, Velazquez, Asmussen
 
BALTIMORE – The post-position draw for the Oct. 3 Preakness 145 will be conducted virtually Monday at noon from Pimlico Race Course.
 
The draw will include morning-line odds and interviews with trainers Bob Baffert and Steve Asmussen and jockey John Velazquez.
 

Double Crown, Lebda Look to Make Grade in $200,000 Chick Lang

09/26/2020
Pair of Turf Sprint Stakes Help Open Preakness Weekend Thursday, Oct. 1
 
BALTIMORE –Reeves Thoroughbred Racing’s Double Crown and Euro Stable’s Lebda, both two-time stakes winners, are both set to go after their first graded triumph in the $200,000 Chick Lang (G3) Thursday, Oct. 1 at Pimlico Race Course.