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Much like its male counterpart, the Preakness, Friday's Grade 2, $300,000 Black-Eyed Susan for 3-year-old fillies is a wide-open affair, lacking the division's top-tier talent but potentially offering bettors value.
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Jockey Cristian Torres has appealed a five-day suspension levied by the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority for whip violations while riding in both the Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Oaks last week at Churchill Downs in Louisville, according to documents posted by HISA on its website.
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Jason Bartlett became just the 11th North American driver to have 12,000 career victories after he captured the eighth race on Tuesday night (May 12) at MGM Yonkers Raceway with Heaven On High N.
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The rich allowance races, they just keep on coming Friday at Churchill – three of them, worth a total of about $416,000. Race 6 is a second-level allowance with an $80,000 claiming option restricted to older fillies and mares and carded for 1 3/8 miles on grass. Argentine import Ceniza Pampa looks live here.
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The Grade 1-winning turf filly Lush Lips probably won’t race again until later this summer, trainer Brendan Walsh said Monday. Lush Lips developed into the leading North American 3-year-old grass filly of 2025 and stood poised to add the Grade 1 Jenny Wiley to her résumé on April 11. Instead, Walsh had to scratch her with what he thought would be a relatively minor issue, but the problem, while not compromising in the long term, has persisted.
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Somewhere between getting rock-star treatment on television and social media, throwing out a ceremonial first pitch at Yankee Stadium, and sending her Converse kicks, custom-made for the first Saturday in May, to be displayed at the Kentucky Derby Museum, Cherie DeVaux still has a vast stable of horses to train.
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Trainer Brittany Russell arrived on the second floor of the Laurel Park grandstand minutes before the draw for the 151st Preakness Stakes on Monday evening. Flanked by her family, she couldn't find a place to sit. Without many options, the woman of the hour reluctantly chose to take a couch right in front, as if propelled to center stage.
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With the Preakness Stakes temporarily relocating from Pimlico to Laurel Park in 2026, much has been made of the effect the move will have on configurations for the 1 3/16-mile race. But local jockeys aren't panicking.
Different venue, but trainer Norm Casse will hope for the same result when he brings Awesome Aaron back to Maryland for Friday's Grade 3, $250,000 Pimlico Special to be held at Laurel Park.
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With new racing leadership in Maryland and Pimlico Race Course in the process of being rebuilt, this Saturday's Preakness Stakes will be contested at Laurel Park, some 30 miles southwest of its traditional home in Baltimore. Change was also a constant in the early years of the current middle jewel of the Triple Crown, which will now have been contested at four different tracks, under different conditions, and on different dates.
