After missing the race last year, 88-year-old trainer D. Wayne Lukas on Saturday will make his record-extending 32nd appearance in the Preakness with Just Steel and Seize the Grey, who will be his 47th and 48th Preakness starters, also a record.
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Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan will face eight opponents when he seeks to win the second jewel of Thoroughbred racing's Triple Crown in Saturday's $2 million Preakness Stakes at Pimlico.
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Catching Freedom, the Grade 2 Louisiana Derby winner who finished fourth in the Kentucky Derby on May 4, will make his next start in Saturday’s $2 million Preakness Stakes at Pimlico, trainer Brad Cox said Sunday.
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Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan will run in the $2 million Preakness Stakes next Saturday at Pimlico, trainer Ken McPeek confirmed Saturday.
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Tuscan Gold, the third-place finisher in the Grade 2 Louisiana Derby, was to scratch from Saturday’s Grade 3, $200,000 Peter Pan Stakes at Aqueduct and will run in the $2 million Preakness Stakes on May 18 at Pimlico, trainer Chad Brown said Thursday.
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Informed Patriot earned a berth into the Preakness Stakes on Saturday, when he held off surging stablemate Imperial Gun for a head win in the $200,000 Bath House Row at Oaklawn Park.
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Japan's Forever Young made a huge jump up to third choice on Derby Watch after clinching his spot in the Kentucky Derby field with his win in the Group 2 U.A.E. Derby at Meydan. The colt, a product of the most prominent sireline in Japan, is from a female family that has produced another of this year's Derby Watch top choices – immediate relation Sierra Leone.
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Nysos, the undefeated 3-year-old colt trained by Bob Baffert, has been made the 4-1 morning-line favorite for the first Preakness Stakes Future Wager pool, which opens Thursday.
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Officials of 1/ST Racing, the owner of Pimlico Race Course in Maryland, have said that they intend to start a “discussion” about the possibility of running the Preakness Stakes at a later date, a move that would disrupt the traditional spacing of the Triple Crown, officials of 1/ST confirmed on Thursday.
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The morning after National Treasure gave him his record eighth Preakness victory, trainer Bob Baffert was still feeling torn between gratification and grief.
