Fort Washington, the winner of the Grade 1 Arlington Million last year, will return to the Mid-Atlantic region for trainer Shug McGaughey on Saturday, and has drawn the 4 post in the Grade 3 Dinner Party Stakes at Laurel Park. The race should be a highlight on the Preakness Day undercard, which will feature eight stakes races. As a 4-year-old last August, McGaughey shipped Fort Washington, then a three-time Grade 3 winner, to Colonial Downs for the Grade 1 Arlington Million. With Junior Alvarado aboard in the midst of a white-hot 2025 season, he scored by a half-length in a career-making victory. But while he might be the classiest contender in the Dinner Party’s field of seven, Fort Washington could also be vulnerable in the 1 1/8-mile turf race. In three starts since the Arlington Million, all graded stakes, he has not finished in the money. Alvarado will again take the mount. Dresden Row, a three-time graded stakes winner trained by Todd Pletcher, will break from the 6 post under Flavien Prat. The 5-year-old returned to action at Keeneland last month and won a tune-up allowance by 2 3/4 lengths. :: Get ready for Preakness with DRF past performances, picks, and betting strategies! Cruise the Nile, unbeaten in four starts since switching to turf for trainer Graham Motion, will make his graded stakes debut from post 3 in the Dinner Party. In his first start at Laurel last month, the 4-year-old gelding switched up styles to win the $100,000 Henry S. Clark with a late-closing trip. Jockey Jorge Ruiz will keep the mount. Motion is similarly prepared in the Grade 3 Gallorette and will send out Ribaltagaia and Warming from the posts 2 and 4. Both are coming off of third-place finishes in listed stakes. Alvarado will ride Ribaltagaia, while John Velazquez will keep the mount on Warming. Mahra’s Love, who finished second ahead of Ribaltagaia in the $100,000 Dahlia, drew the rail in the field of seven fillies and mares. Luis Saez will ride for trainer Michelle Nihei. Motion has another pair entered in the $100,000 James W. Murphy, a mile turf race which drew eight 3-year-olds The $125,000 Jim McKay Turf Sprint drew 11 3-year-olds and up and is the largest stakes field on the Preakness undercard. Most of the runners last ran at Laurel, with seven coming out of the $100,000 King T. Leatherbury. Outlaw Kid, the winner of that race under Ruiz, will break from the 8 post for trainer George Weaver. Coming off a brilliant 2025 season with his juveniles, trainer Gary Capuano has two entered in the $100,000 Sir Barton Stakes, a 1 1/16-mile race for 3-year-olds. Big Cuddle and Let’s Go Lando drew the 2 and 3 posts and will be ridden by Yedsit Hazlewood and Paco Lopez. :: Get Preakness Betting Strategies for exclusive wagering insights, contender analysis, and more Capuano also has two in the $150,000 Chick Lang, a six-furlong sprint for 3-year-olds. Hollywood Import and Buds Notion also drew the 2 and 3 posts, but they will be up against it as local contenders, having drawn just inside of Obliteration, the Group 3 Saudi Cup runner-up trained by Steve Asmussen, and Igniter, the winner of the $135,000 Jimmy Winkfield at Aqueduct for Rick Dutrow. Celtic Contender, the third-place finisher in the Grade 3 Maryland Sprint last year, will return to run in that race from post 6. Trainer Hamilton Smith has considered the race his goal since late March, when the 5-year-old returned to racing and earned a 100 Beyer Speed Figure in a Laurel allowance. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.