Betting on the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Racecourse in Baltimore on Saturday was $54.15 million, according to the official chart of the race, down 3.2 percent from wagering on the race last year and nearly $5 million off the record set in 2009.

This year’s Preakness had nine runners, compared to 11 last year. Orb, who finished fourth, was the 7-10 favorite at post time, with the other eight horses in the race all going off at odds between 8-1 and 22-1. Oxbow won the race at 15-1.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – The strategy worked on turf early in the afternoon and again later in the day on the main track. Jockey Joe Talamo swept the two stakes at Betfair Hollywood Park aboard 4-year-old fillies that had perfect trips from off the pace.

Open Water ($21.40) benefited from a speed duel to win the $150,250 Marjorie Everett Handicap for fillies and mares on the synthetic main track. Earlier in the afternoon, Unusual Hottie closed from third under Talamo to win the $100,500 Fran’s Valentine Stakes for California-bred fillies and mares on turf.

BALTIMORE – Hall of Fame trainer Shug McGaughey admitted to allowing himself to dream about the possibility of going for a Triple Crown with Kentucky Derby winner Orb in the June 8 Belmont Stakes.

“I tried to focus on today the whole time, but I wouldn’t be telling you the truth if I didn’t think down the line a little bit,” McGaughey said. “I thought if we could get it done today, that going back to Belmont, we would really be comfortable there, and we would really have a big chance.”

D. Wayne Lukas has won the Preakness six times:
Oxbow, 2013
Charismatic, 1999
Timber Country, 1995
Tabasco Cat, 1994
Tank’s Prospect, 1985
Codex, 1980

Jockey Gary Stevens, has won the Preakness three times:
Oxbow, 2013
Point Given, 2001
Silver Charm, 1997

BALTIMORE - Below is the complete order of finish for the Grade 1, $1 million Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course on Saturday:

1. Oxbow
2. Itsmyluckyday
3. Mylute
4. Orb
5. Goldencents
6. Departing
7. Will Take Charge
8. Govenor Charlie
9. Titletown Five

[PREAKNESS STAKES: Race replays and reactions from Pimlico]

SHAKOPEE, Minn. – Heliskier went postward as the 2-5 favorite in the $50,000 10,000 Lakes, the longest odds since his 2012 debut in a statebred allowance, and proved that even those odds were too high with a 5 1/2-length win that moved his record to 7 for 7.

Longshot Willow Parish challenged Heliskier early in the six-furlong race for Minnesota-bred 3-year-olds and up before succumbing after two furlongs. The 2012 Canterbury horse of the year, Heliskier kept a two-length lead through the turn for home when Speakfromyourheart under Lori Keith ranged up alongside.

Za Approval, a gray horse whose hair has gone nearly white, usually is not hard to pick out in a race, but so buried was he in traffic Saturday at Monmouth Park during the Red Bank Stakes that the striking coat was difficult to locate. But, finally extricated from trouble at the top of the stretch, there came Za Approval, running down another light gray horse, Tune Me In, to win the Red Bank in a game performance.

BALTIMORE – On a gray day at Pimlico, the Sunshine Boys ruled.

Jockey Gary Stevens, who came out of a seven-year retirement in January, and trainer D. Wayne Lukas, still going strong at age 77, put added shine on their Hall of Fame careers and put an end to the Triple Crown aspirations of Orb by teaming to win the138th Preakness Stakes on Saturday at Pimlico Race Course with the 15-1 longshot Oxbow.

[PREAKNESS STAKES: Race replays and reactions from Pimlico]

Glorious View became a graded stakes winner in her first try, gamely turning back a stretch-long bid from Fantasy of Flight to register a hard-fought, half-length decision in Saturday’s $200,000 Vagrancy Handicap at Belmont Park. Withgreatpleasure finished third.

Glorious View, a 4-year-old daughter of Pleasant Tap, entered the Grade 2 Vagrancy off three consecutive one-sided victories at Aqueduct, all under regular rider Junior Alvarado. Each of those wins came at six furlongs. She stretched out to 6 1/2 furlongs for her stakes debut in the Vagrancy.