The pick four ending with the Preakness Stakes has a 50-cent minimum and $1.5 million-guaranteed pool. The sequence (races 10-13) also includes a live longshot in the Grade 2 Dixie Stakes (race 12) which will be a single on this suggested ticket.
There’s a simple approach to the Pimlico double linking the Black-Eyed Susan Stakes on Friday and the Preakness on Saturday, and there’s a complex one.
DRF handicapper Kenny Peck provides his best plays on Friday's program at Pimlico.
DRF handicapper Dan Illman provides his analysis of the pick four that begins with race 8 Friday at Pimlico.
Here’s a look at the pick five races that begin on race 7 Friday at Pimlico, with analysis by DRF handicapper Byron King.
Although no Mid-Atlantic-based stallion has led the list since Halo, two subsequent leading American sires were bred in Pennsylvania. Northern Dancer’s son Danzig was born in 1977 at Marshall Jenney’s Derry Meeting Farm near Cochranville, Pa., while Storm Cat was foaled six years later at Averell Walker’s Rolling Plains Stable near Unionville, Pa.
Pennsylvania’s overall loss was state resident sire Jump Start’s gain as the exodus of a trio of stallions left him as the leading returning sire in the state. With several of his veteran campaigners still on the track, he will look to keep the momentum going in 2015.
When the 2015 breeding season began, Northview Stallion Station of Chesapeake City, Md., looked ideally positioned for a continued reign in the region, with perennial leading Maryland sire Not For Love on the active roster. However, the 25-year-old Mr. Prospector horse, a cornerstone of the state’s breeding program for nearly two decades, was pensioned in March, about a month into the season, due to a reproductive hematoma. But waiting in the wings for Northview was Orientate, who now assumes the mantle as Maryland’s leading active sire, even before his first state-sired foals reach the races. The 17-year-old Mt. Livermore horse arrived at Northview for the 2013 breeding season after launching his career at Gainesway in Lexington, Ky.
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The Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-year-olds in training sale enters its 2015 renewal off arguably the strongest year by its alumni in the auction’s history.
