Racing News

Pierre and George Lorillard: Kings of the Preakness in the Gilded Age

05/18/2022

LAUREL, MD - In the three decades following the Civil War, rich men with outsized ambitions began to shape the future of America. Captains of industry or robber barons, depending on your perspective, they built a country on industrialization, steel, railroading and untethered capitalism.

With all the miserable North-South bloodshed out of the way, the wealthiest Americans got down to the business of doing what they really wanted – to make money and have a good time.

Epicenter ‘Energy Level is Good’ for 147th Preakness

05/18/2022

Early Voting Gets Acquainted with Pimlico Racetrack
Alex Sano: ‘It’s Like a Movie that Never Ends’
Lukas Looks Back at 1st Preakness Win

LAUREL, MD – Winchell Racing’s Epicenter, the 6-5 morning-line favorite for Saturday’s $1.65 million Preakness Stakes (G1), jogged a mile around Pimlico Race Course’s oval early Wednesday, his first morning in town after vanning from Louisville.

In Bobo We Trust:’ Exercise Rider Brigmon Handles Smith’s Stars

05/18/2022

Divine Huntress Representing Maryland in Black-Eyed Susan (G2)
G2 Winner Cilla Favored to Give Brinkman First Pimlico Stakes Win

LAUREL, MD – Ten years after going to the Kentucky Derby (G1) with one of Hamilton Smith’s best colts, James ‘Bobo’ Brigmon finds himself at historic Pimlico Race Course for Preakness weekend with one of the trainer’s best fillies.

Luna Belle Carries Late Breeder’s Legacy to Black-Eyed Susan (G2)

05/18/2022

‘I Think of Him Every Race:’ Daughter Deborah Says of Fred Greene Jr.

LAUREL, MD – Of all the pictures on Deborah Greene’s phone, there’s one that holds the most special of meanings. Taken in the spring of 2019 it shows her father, then 92, gently holding the lead while standing over one of his newest foals, a three-week-old bay filly. The foal’s mare stands protectively behind them.

Preakness Favorite Epicenter Arrives at Pimlico

05/17/2022

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Early Voting Completes Belmont-Pimlico Ship

LAUREL, MD – Saturday’s Preakness Stakes (G1) favorite Epicenter arrived at Pimlico Race Course Tuesday shortly after 2 p.m. following his 10 1/2-hour van ride from Louisville, Ky. Scott Blasi, who oversees Hall of Fame trainer Steve Asmussen’s Churchill Downs division, was on hand to meet the van and unload Epicenter.

Tango Tango Tango Seeks Graded Success in $150,000 Dinner Party (G2)

05/17/2022

Among 10 Stakes, Six Graded, Worth $2.75 Million on Preakness Day Program

LAUREL, MD– The question facing Calumet Farm’s Tango Tango Tango in Saturday’s $250,000 Dinner Party (G2) at Pimlico Race Course is whether the 4-year-old colt ready to win, win, win a graded stakes?

Joe, Shake Em Loose Return to Grass in $100,000 James W. Murphy

05/17/2022

Multiple Stakes Winner Carotari Tops $100,000 Jim McKay Turf Sprint

LAUREL, MD – After meeting twice on dirt, round three of the Joe vs. Shake Em Loose series will take place on turf Saturday in the $100,000 James W. Murphy Stakes on the Preakness (G1) undercard at Pimlico Race Course.

The one-mile test for 3-year-olds, which drew a field of 11, is part of a spectacular 14-race program featuring 10 stakes, six graded, worth $2.75 million in purses headlined by the 147th renewal of the Middle Jewel of the Triple Crown.

The Woodlawn Vase: Sport’s Most Unique Trophy

05/17/2022

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LAUREL, MD - The Woodlawn Vase, presented to the winners of the legendary Preakness Stakes (G1), has long been considered one of the most intricate, unique, and expensive trophies in all of sport.

Designed in 1860 by Tiffany & Co. for the Woodlawn Racing Association in Louisville, Ky., the vase has a colorful history and is an incredible work of silversmithing.

Louisiana Trainer Seeking First Graded Win in Chick Lang (G3)

05/17/2022

Brett Brinkman Has High Hopes for Old Homestead in Six-Furlong Dash

LAUREL, MD – Trainer Brett Brinkman overcame a severe bout of Covid that landed him in the hospital not long ago. Fully recovered, the Louisiana-based horseman now hopes to wind up in the Pimlico Race Course winner’s circle Saturday with what would be his first “official” graded-stakes victory when he sends out Marablue Farm and Pegasus Stud’s Old Homestead in the $200,000 Chick Lang (G3).

Epicenter Only ‘Beginning’ His Career in Preakness

05/17/2022

Oaks Winner Secret Oaks ‘Breaks Their Hearts’
Early Voting Set for Tuesday Afternoon Arrival
Video: Lukas, Brown Joseph

LAUREL, MD – Saturday’s 147th Preakness Stakes (G1) will be Epicenter’s eighth career start, but Hall of Fame trainer Steve Asmussen views the first seven races as just a warm up for the 6-5 morning-line favorite.