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Pedigree profiles, sale histories, and other background information on all nine entrants for Saturday's Preakness Stakes, headed by Kentucky Derby winner Orb.

Orb’s sire, Malibu Moon, began his stallion career at the Ponses’ Country Life Farm in Bel Air, Md., where he found immediate success.

While the Kentucky Derby was the longest distance test for many of the horses coming back for the Preakness Stakes, the mile and three-sixteenths at Pimlico will be the second-longest challenge they have faced up to this point.

DRF Breeding staff writer Joe Nevills analyzes the Preakness Stakes field, in post position order, in the form of Haiku; a Japanese poem of 17 syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five.

BreezeFigs Quick-Pix Saturday May 18th, 2013

Total handle on the 13-race card at Pimlico Race Course on Friday featuring the Black-Eyed Susan Stakes was down 3.9 percent compared to wagering on the same card last year, according to an analysis of the racing charts for each year.

Kentucky Derby winner Orb closed as the 4-5 favorite after Friday’s early wagering for the Grade 1, $1 million Preakness Stakes, which will be run Saturday at Pimlico Race Course.

Emotional Kitten scored a mild upset in the $100,000 Hilltop Stakes for 3-year-old fillies on the turf at Pimlico.

With 3-5 favorite Last Gunfighter taking Friday’s Grade 3, $300,000 Pimlico Special, here are the will pays for a $2 ticket in the Pimlico Special-Preakness double.

Last Gunfighter keeps trumping himself. He won his sixth straight race Friday in the Grade 3, $300,000 Pimlico Special, and after he ran down a loose-on-the-lead horse, his trainer, Chad Brown, called the performance Last Gunfighter’s best to date.

For the second straight year, Sensible Lady won the $100,000 The Very One Stakes on the Black-Eyed Susan undercard Friday at sunny Pimlico Race Course.

There’s one big question to be answered Sunday at Emerald Downs – who will win the Governor’s Handicap – and a second, perhaps no less interesting, issue: Who will set the pace in the 6 1/2-furlong race?

In what has become Joel Rosario’s world, Fiftyshadesofhay rallied in the stretch to wear down 12-1 leader Marathon Lady and take the Grade 2 Black-Eyed Susan by a neck at Pimlico Race Course on Friday.

The remarkable Ben’s Cat, trained and owned by the remarkable King Leatherbury, raced to his 21st victory in 31 lifetime starts on Friday at Pimlico with a late-running score in the $100,000 Jim McKay Turf Sprint.

Jeremey Day's analysis of the Sunday 5/19 card at Balmoral Park.

Brett Sturman's daily Pick Four ticket with in-depth analysis.

After a hotly contested allowance prep race failed to yield any conclusive results, the top older horses at Emerald Downs will lock horns again Sunday while chasing a bigger purse in the $50,000 Governor’s Handicap at 6 1/2 furlongs.

I’m Mom’s Favorite overcame getting pinched back at the start plus a wild late run from 50-1 shot Flattering Bea to win the Miss Preakness by a nose at Pimlico