Shortly before post positions were drawn for the Preakness Stakes on Tuesday, the racing office released entries for the other eight Thoroughbred stakes on the 14-race card Saturday.  The Preakness undercard features three graded stakes for Thoroughbreds, as well as the Grade 1 UAE President’s Cup for Arabian runners to end the day. The Grade 3, $150,000 Maryland Sprint for 3-year-olds, run at six furlongs on dirt, will be the first stakes on the card.   The other two Grade 3 races are on turf. The $150,000 Gallorette, for fillies and mares, will be run at 1 1/16 miles, while horses in the $250,000 Dinner Party will run 1 1/8 miles.  The undercard features five ungraded stakes, three of which are on dirt. The $150,000 Chick Lang at six furlongs and $100,000 Sir Barton, a 1 1/16-mile race restricted to runners who have not won an open stakes, are both for 3-year-olds. The $125,000 Skipat will feature fillies and mares at six furlongs.   The two turf stakes are the $125,000 Jim McKay Turf Sprint at five furlongs and the $100,000 James W. Murphy, a mile race for 3-year-olds.   Booth, the clear horse to beat in the field of seven in the Maryland Sprint, will likely vie for the early lead after drawing post 6. The 4-year-old colt, trained by Steve Asmussen, earned a pair of Grade 3 stakes victories at Oaklawn Park in his last two starts. In March, he earned a 107 Beyer Speed Figure for his performance in the Grade 3 Whitmore.  :: Get Preakness Betting Strategies for exclusive wagering insights, contender analysis, and more Balnikhov, last year’s winner of the Dinner Party, will defend his title from the 6 post for trainer Phil D’Amato. He will likely have to deal with contenders on the far outside in the late stages. Fort Washington, winner of the Grade 3 Canadian Turf at Gulfstream Park for Shug McGaughey, drew post 10 in the field of 13. Trikari, third-place finisher in the Grade 1 Maker’s Mark Mile last time out, will start from post 13 and try to outkick his competition late.  Two horses who ran in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint last year will make their 2025 debuts in the Skipat Stakes. In her first start outside California, One Magic Philly, a 4-year-old trained by D’Amato, drew post 3. Zeitlos, a 6-year-old who won the Grade 2 Thoroughbred Club of America at Keeneland in October, will break from post 5 for Asmussen.   Striker Has Dial, a 4-year-old trained by Horacio De Paz, is entering the Skipat with two impressive allowance victories at Aqueduct. but she will face this classy field of seven from the far outside post.  The Gallorette features an evenly matched field of nine, though several front-runners had their fortunes slightly shifted by the draw. Dana’s Beauty, a two-stakes winner on both turf and synthetic since joining Mike Maker’s barn last year, will break from the rail and should be forwardly placed in the early going.   :: Get ready for the Preakness with DRF past performances, picks, and betting strategies! Other potential pacesetters, like 4-year-old fillies Charlene’s Dream and Three Havanas, may have no choice but to chase her from posts 4 and 7, respectively.  In the Chick Lang, several 3-year-olds in the field of 11 could go to the front end. Lightly raced contenders Faster Gator and One Nine Hundred may be hindered if they don’t find another dimension from the outside.  Faster Gator, who will start from 7 post for trainer Anthony Farrior, dueled inside in the Bay Shore last time out and finished second in a short field. One Nine Hundred broke from the rail and led every step of the way to win his maiden by seven lengths at Aqueduct in March. He will make his stakes debut just outside of Faster Gator in post 8.  The field of nine scheduled for the McKay Turf Sprint is a healthy mix of improving sprinters and classier runners looking to get back on track. Determined Kingdom, a 6-year-old gelding making his second start for Mike Trombetta, will break from post 5 after a disappointing sixth-place finish in the King T. Leatherbury at Laurel Park.   No Nay Hudson, an improving Irish-bred sprinter in Wesley Ward’s barn, will begin from post 2 and could stalk the leaders along the rail. Coppola, winner of two stakes at Gulfstream over the winter, drew post 6 in his return to ungraded stakes company. The 6-year-old was well-beaten in a pair of Grade 2 stakes in Kentucky this spring for trainer Dale Romans.  In the field of nine precocious 3-year-old runners entered in the Sir Barton, only one has run in more than one stakes race. Just a Fair Shake, third-place finisher in the Laurel Futurity and runner-up in the Federico Tesio last time out, will break from post 9 on the far outside for local trainer Daniel McKenzie.   :: DRF's Preakness Headquarters: Contenders, latest news, and more On the rail, Crudo will make his stakes debut for Todd Pletcher after a 7 1/4-length maiden victory at Keeneland last month. Invictus, a last-out Keeneland maiden winner for Brad Cox, drew post 6.  Serious contenders in the James W. Murphy all seemed to settle toward the middle of the field of 10. From post 4, Barbadian Runner, one of the few stakes winners in the race, will make his second career start on turf. Trainer Henry Walters said that he has been considering him for the grass all year and is finally making the switch.   In posts 5 and 7 to his outside, End of Romance and Reagan’s Wit are both looking for their first stakes victories after earning finishes in the money earlier this year.  :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.