The Pimlico Special and Black-Eyed Susan top a strong 14-race Preakness eve card Friday at Pimlico. The program consists of seven stakes, four allowance races, one optional claimer, and two maiden races. The fields should average more than 10 horses a race after scratches. :: Black Eyed-Susan Stakes/Pimlico Special: Watch live video of Friday’s card from Pimlico. Here is a look at the day’s races: Grade 3, $300,000 Pimlico Special: This 10-horse field includes Kid Cruz, who won the Federico Tesio at Pimlico last year; Commissioner, who won the Skip Away at Gulfstream last out; Top Billing, a late-charging second in a Keeneland allowance last out; recent Keeneland allowance winner Transparent; and Albano, second in the Grade 2 New Orleans Handicap in his most recent start. The field for the 1 3/16-mile race is completed by Tapiture, Encryption, Page McKenney, Vyjack, and Cat Burglar. Grade 2, $250,000 Black-Eyed Susan: The nine-horse lineup of 3-year-old fillies includes Santa Anita Oaks runner-up Luminance and Grade 3 Fantasy winner Include Betty. The others in the 1 1/8-mile race are Danessa Deluxe, Pure, Ahh Chocolate, Gypsy Judy, Sweetgrass, Devine Aida, and Keen Pauline. Two-time Grade 1 winner Stopchargingmaria and last season’s Delaware Oaks winner Fortune Pearl will square off in the Grade 3 Allaire DuPont Distaff at 1 1/8 miles. Stopchargingmaria won the Black-Eyed Susan at Pimlico last year. Fortune Pearl rallied from off the pace to win a 1 1/16-mile optional-claiming race at Keeneland in her 4-year-old debut. Nine-year-old Ben’s Cat, a winner of $2.3 million, and Bold Thunder, who beat Ben’s Cat on April 17, top a field of 10 in the $100,000 Jim McKay Turf Sprint at five furlongs. Barbara Fritchie winner Lady Sabelia is the horse to beat in the $100,000 Skipat Stakes, a six-furlong race for fillies and mares. The other stakes on the card are the Grade 3, $150,000 Miss Preakness Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at six furlongs and the $100,000 Hilltop Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at 1 1/16 miles on the turf. The Friday Pimlico card has a noon Eastern first post. The Saturday Preakness card will be drawn Wednesday. There will be three multi-race pools guaranteed at $250,000 each on the Friday card. The first guaranteed pick four will be on races 8-11 and include the Miss Preakness, the Jim McKay Turf Sprint, the DuPont Distaff, and the Black-Eyed Susan. A second guaranteed pick four will be offered on races 11-14. It will include the Black-Eyed Susan, the Skipat, an optional claimer, and the Pimlico Special. A $250,000 pick five will begin on race 7. There also will be a Black-Eyed Susan-Preakness daily double. ** One of the day’s promotional events is the $30,000 Female Handicapper Challenge that will match Christina Bossinakis of Gulfstream Park, Caton Bredar of HRTV, Donna Brothers of NBC, Jeannine Edwards of ESPN, Gabby Gaudet of Pimlico, and Maggie Wolfendale of the New York Racing Association. The handicappers will make selections on the entire card, and the winner will earn $10,000. There also will be an autograph session and an on-track handicapping seminar.