Lukas takes a couple of stakes shots
D. Wayne Lukas, a winner of six Preakness Stakes, rolled into Old Hilltop from Kentucky on Wednesday afternoon with a pair or horses in tow.
Jim DunleavyMay 18, 2017
D. Wayne Lukas, a winner of six Preakness Stakes, rolled into Old Hilltop from Kentucky on Wednesday afternoon with a pair or horses in tow.
One year ago, Keith Desormeaux had a brief conversation with himself over what to do with Kentucky Derby runner-up Exaggerator during the two weeks between the Derby and the Preakness. He was pretty much convinced he ran the best horse at Churchill Downs, where Exaggerator had to pause when a hole closed just as he began his run at the seven-sixteenths pole.
For the first and likely only time in his career, Always Dreaming will run back on two weeks' rest on Saturday in the Preakness Stakes. But if his eagerness while training is any indication, he is up to the task.
TimeformUS handicapper David Aragona provides his analysis for the 2017 Preakness.
The Beyer Speed Figure for Multiplier's victory in the Illinois Derby has been adjusted from an 88 to a 94. Multiplier is a 30-1 longshot on the morning line for Saturday's Preakness at Pimlico.
Of the 19 horses who chased home Always Dreaming in the Kentucky Derby two weeks ago, just four are back to challenge anew in the Preakness Stakes on Saturday at Pimlico, with their backers hoping a scenario that has played out more often than not over the last three decades returns anew.
A lot has changed in racing in the half-century that has passed since the great Damascus captured the 1967 Preakness on his way to being voted Horse of the Year, including pre-race protocols.
The road to a divisional Eclipse Award has run through the Preakness in 15 of the last 20 years. Since Silver Charm won in 1997, all but five Preakness winners have been voted 3-year-old of the year.
Jim Dunleavy, the Mid-Atlantic correspondent for Daily Racing Form, was presented with the prestigious Old Hilltop Award here Thursday morning during the annual Alibi Breakfast.
For whatever reason, the Preakness long has been the most formful of the three Triple Crown events, with 72 winners from 142 prior runnings (there were two divisions in 1918) for a strike rate of 50.7 percent.