By the end of Preakness weekend, it was unclear if the hotter exacta was Wayne Lukas and Gary Stevens or Pitbull and Jennifer Lopez. Call it a dead heat.
Don’t know if Wayne and Gary can do it again in 2014, but if Pitbull, aka Armando Perez, brings J-Lo with him to the Preakness infield next year, they will be a big favorite.
Pitbull was every bit as big in the 2013 infield as Oxbow was on the track. And that really is the Preakness, something for just about everybody.
The retired California-based trainer Richard Lies died late Monday after an extended illness. Lies, 71, died at home in Carlsbad, Calif.
The father of four, including Lone Star announcer John Lies, Richard Lies was born in Wichita, Kansas, and was a California trainer based out of San Luis Rey Downs prior to his retirement from training in 2004. Lies also served as a longtime Del Mel usher and a donut-shop entrepreneur for 30 years. Funeral services for Lies are pending.
Mark Lee, a Thoroughbred trainer who regularly competes in Oklahoma, lost his entire 12-horse stable in the deadly tornado that hit Moore, Okla., on Monday afternoon. Lee was based at the Celestial Acres Training Center that experienced extensive damage at the hands of 200 mile-per-hour winds. He believes a large number of horses were lost in the storm, but said one barn on the north side of the training center simply had its roof torn off and the 20 to 25 horses inside all survived. Lee lives six miles from Celestial Acres.
The extent of damage to a Thoroughbred training center near Oklahoma City caused by a Monday afternoon tornado was not known as of Monday night, according to a spokesperson for the facility’s ownership. It is believed Celestial Acres Training Center in Moore, Okla., houses about 80 horses, but the number could not be confirmed, the spokesperson said, nor could the status of the horses.
LEXINGTON. Ky. – Attorneys for the owners and the trainer of a filly disqualified from last year’s Grade 2 Pocahontas Stakes at Churchill Downs for a medication violation argued on Monday during an appeals hearing that the state had erred when ordering the purse of the race redistributed.
MIAMI - Kenny Noe Jr., former chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the New York Racing Association, died Sunday evening following a long illness. He was 84.
Noe, the son of former jockey and trainer Kenny Noe Sr., began his career as a racing official in 1954 and continued in various capacities until announcing his resignation as CEO and chairman of NYRA's Board of Trustees during the fall of 2000. Noe had been hired as president of NYRA six years earlier.
Ajax Downs will open its doors Monday for a 30-day meeting that runs though Oct. 15.
A total of 84 horses were entered for 10 races, with first post set for 12:55 p.m.
Ajax, an Ontario Quarter Horse racetrack, will be racing 10 fewer days than last year and has tweaked its schedule, with racing on seven Mondays, including five holidays.
Ajax formerly raced on Sundays and Tuesdays. Tuesday racing will remain a staple of the meeting. Special Sunday cards will be offered on June 16, which is Father’s Day, and Aug. 18.
Results and recap articles for the 2013 Preakness Stakes card at Pimlico.
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BALTIMORE -- Dance to Bristol lived up to her 3-5 odds with a powerful 4 3/4-length victory in Friday’s $100,000 Skipat Stakes at Pimlico.
It was the fourth consecutive win for Dance to Bristol, who was coming off a nine-length score in the $200,000 Sugar Maple Stakes at Charles Town last month. Dance to Bristol, a 4-year-old daughter of Speightstown, is now 7-7-0 from 15 starts for the Cooperville Farm.
Results and recap articles for the 2013 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes card at Pimlico.
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