BALTIMORE – A surprise 13th horse for the Preakness was revealed Wednesday morning at Pimlico when trainer Dale Romans entered Everfast in the second jewel of the Triple Crown.

Everfast, owned by Calumet Farm, surely will be one of the longest shots in the Preakness field after most recently finishing fifth by 10 1/4 lengths in the Pat Day Mile on Kentucky Derby Day. Joel Rosario will ride.

Michael McMahon and Jamie Hill were destined to keep the Tapit colt who eventually became Preakness contender Bourbon War.

McMahon and Hill race under the banner Bourbon Lane and pinhook under the banner Spruce Lane. Bourbon War, the first foal out of the Grade 1 winner My Conquestadory, was purchased as a yearling for $410,000, with the idea of pinhooking him the following September.

At the Keeneland auction, he failed to meet his reserve of $550,000 as the bidding stopped at $525,000.

Last year, the undefeated Justify came into the Triple Crown looking to buck the “curse of Apollo” and became the first horse to win the Kentucky Derby without having raced as a juvenile since 1882. This year, a far less accomplished horse, the maiden Bodexpress, is looking to overthrow another century-plus of precedent.

Mark Casse said all winter that people would be talking about the colt he trains, War of Will, after the Kentucky Derby.

Casse was right, but not in way he meant and hoped.

War of Will has become the most famous eighth-place Derby finisher during the two weeks between Derby and Preakness.

Casse, owner Gary Barber, and jockey Tyler Gaffalione dreamed of War of Will draped with a blanket of Derby roses. Instead, the Derby first-place finisher Maximum Security was draped all over War of Will at the five-sixteenths pole.

BALTIMORE – The Pimlico Special has been a 1 3/16-mile race since War Admiral won the first running in 1937. This year, the distance has been increased to 1 1/4 miles.

Pimlico is a one-mile track, and Friday’s race will start at the very top of the stretch. Longtime track officials believe it will be the first time a 1 1/4-mile race has been held at Pimlico since the late 1980s. The track record of 2:01 4/5 for the distance was set in 1988 by Manzotti.

This Saturday, television viewers of the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore will see something not often, if ever, seen at the track on the day of its biggest race, the second leg of the Triple Crown. Nearly half of the grandstand at Pimlico will be empty.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Trainer Robert Tiller has gotten off to a fast start at the Woodbine meet, thanks to the popular champion Pink Lloyd and two offspring of the hot Ontario sire Souper Speedy – Ari Gold Speedwagn and Ciuri.

Through Sunday, Tiller had won with 9 of 25 starters, or a 36 percent win clip.

“That’s not going to last,” Tiller said. “We’re running out of horses to run. We have a lot of 2-year-olds. I didn’t see this coming, and I’m very pleased with the way things have gone.”

BALTIMORE – Market King arrived at Pimlico Race Course at 3:15 p.m. Tuesday for his intended start in the Preakness Stakes on Saturday, accompanied by Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas, his staff, and Lukas’s pony.

Lukas said the van left Churchill Downs at 5 a.m. and that the drive was uneventful.

"It was a real good trip," Lukas said. "There was no traffic. He ate on the way and didn't turn a hair."

BALTIMORE – The weather forecast for Preakness Day calls for temperatures in the mid-70s under cloudy skies, which should translate to a fast track. That scenario is just fine for jockey Julian Pimentel and trainer Mike Trombetta, who will team up with Win Win Win, the 10^th-place finisher in the Kentucky Derby over a sloppy track that he didn’t relish.

BALTIMORE – War of Will, the powerful-looking, high-energy War Front colt, who finished eighth but was elevated to seventh after almost falling on the far turn of the Kentucky Derby, was the lone Preakness probable on the Pimlico grounds as of Tuesday morning, but he was expected to have company by nightfall.

D. Wayne Lukas on Tuesday vanned Market King from Churchill Downs to Pimlico and arrived at 3:15 p.m.

"It was a real good trip," Lukas said. "There was no traffic, he ate on the way, and didn't turn a hair."