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Visiting the backside at Pimlico Race Course Preakness week as the co-owner/breeder of a Kentucky Derby winner is certainly a unique experience for the 64-year-old Stuart Janney.

Trainer Joan Petrowski is hoping Dougs Buddy can keep his undefeated record in sprints intact when he runs in a six-furlong allowance race for 3-year-olds and up that drew eight horses at Northlands Park on Saturday.

Will Orb win the 2013 Triple Crown? Vegas has given him the most favorable odds since Big Brown in 2008.

On a busy Saturday at Emerald Downs, a pair of allowance races will complement simulcast wagering on the Preakness Stakes as Kentucky Derby hero Orb zeroes in on the second leg of the Triple Crown.

Following its simulcast of the Preakness, Prairie Meadows has slated a pair of featured six-furlong stakes sprints for Iowa-bred 3-year-olds, the $60,000 Bob Bryant for fillies and the $60,000 Gray’s Lake for colts and geldings.

Six evenly matched fillies and mares will line up for Saturday’s $200,000 Vagrancy Handicap at 6 1/2 furlongs. Spectacular Sky carries the nominal top weight of 118 pounds, giving one to four pounds to Fantasy of Flight, Glorious View, Irish Exchange, ...

Moonlit Beauty, winner of four stakes, is the most accomplished member of the 12-horse field for Saturday’s $125,000 Ballade Stakes. But can she shine under the circumstances, making her first start of the season at a six-furlong distance that isn’t ...

Nine talented pacing fillies will line up behind the gate on Sunday (May 19) at Balmoral Park to contest the first major Illinois-bred stakes race of the season. The $55,300 Violet Stake features two $100,000-plus earners and a late blooming young lady ...

Summer Applause bounced back from one bad effort earlier this year when she won the Grade 2 Top Flight at Aqueduct. Her connections hope she shows similar resilience in Saturday’s Grade 3, $150,000 Allaire DuPont Distaff at Pimlico.

Hardened Wildcat and Candyman E, both of whom appear to be sitting on big efforts following lengthy breaks, may benefit from a hot, contested pace in Saturday's Grade 3 Maryland Sprint Handicap at Pimlico.

Close It Out tops a field of 10 Grade 2 Smile prospects entered to in Saturday’s $55,000 Champali Stakes at Calder.

The horse race called the Preakness Stakes has been run 137 times, dating back to 1873, only it’s tough to take the first couple dozen versions very seriously.

When Orb gave trainer Shug McGaughey his first Kentucky Derby win, it was also the first Derby for assistant Buzzy Tenney and a host of other employees in a stable that prides itself on consistency and longevity.

It is tough to separate the eight older horses running in a $35,000 optional claimer that will serve as Saturday’s feature at Hastings. The 6 1/2-furlong sprint is the last of seven races carded, and an abundance of speed in the field and could set ...

Two of the most logical contenders in Saturday’s Grade 3, $100,000 Red Bank Stakes at Monmouth Park - Za Approval and Tune Me In - have have been away from the races for a while, but nowhere near as long as Two Notch Road, a 6-year-old who last raced ...

Delaware launches its abbreviated 2013 season Saturday in conjunction with the Preakness, which takes place some 90 miles down Interstate 95 in Baltimore.

A race of considerably less importance than the Preakness will serve as the Churchill Downs feature Saturday: The Keertana, a $65,000 overnight stakes, will have its first running when matching 10 filly-and-mare turf marathoners.

In the 138th Preakness on Saturday at Pimlico Race Course, there is no question Orb is the horse is to beat. The target will be easy to spot, because he will be wearing saddle cloth No. 1.

After Orb scored his decisive victory in the Kentucky Derby and was hailed as a bright new star of racing, many handicappers had a reason for skepticism. They had seen this scenario before.