The status of potential Preakness entrant Shake Em Loose will likely be determined following the gelding’s scheduled workout at Laurel Park on Sunday morning.

Reached by telephone on Saturday, trainer Rodolfo Sanchez-Salomon mentioned that Shake Em Loose will breeze five furlongs on turf, possibly in company with stablemate Can the Queen, a 6-year-old mare best known for winning the Sensible Lady Turf Dash last summer at Pimlico. Can the Queen finished fourth against males in the King T. Leatherbury Stakes at Laurel on April 23.

ELMONT, N.Y. – The comparisons between Early Voting and Cloud Computing are natural and meaningful and are among the main storylines heading into next Saturday’s $1.5 million Preakness Stakes at Pimlico.

Trainer Chad Brown and owner Seth Klarman hope the comparisons are equally as natural and meaningful coming out of Preakness 147.

Rich Strike pulled off an 80-1 upset in the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, and on Thursday his connections came with another shocker, taking the colt out of consideration for the Preakness Stakes, the second leg of the Triple Crown, on May 21 at Pimlico. He will instead await the Belmont Stakes, the final leg of the Triple Crown, on June 11 in New York.

Both Rick Dawson, who owns Rich Strike, and Eric Reed, the colt’s trainer, said they believed running back in two weeks was not in the best interests of Rich Strike. They said giving him five weeks between starts was more suitable.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Rich Strike won’t be 80-1 in the Preakness like he was in winning the Kentucky Derby – but he won’t be among the program favorites, either. Pimlico oddsmaker Keith Feustle said this week that Rich Strike will be 8-1 “or maybe even a touch higher” on his morning line, depending on who’s in and who’s out when entries are drawn Monday for the May 21 Preakness at Pimlico in Baltimore.

“From the public’s perspective, I think Rich Strike will fall through the cracks again a little, even as the Derby winner,” Feustle said.

With Jose Ortiz committed to ride Early Voting, John Velazquez has picked up the mount on Kentucky Derby fourth-place finisher Simplification in the May 21 Preakness Stakes, trainer Antonio Sano said Monday.

“Johnny V’s a good jockey, a good person, has experience,” Sano said Monday. “I’m so happy to have Johnny on the horse.”

Simplification was scheduled leave Kentucky for Baltimore on Monday night.

Velazquez rode Messier to a 15^th-place finish in the Kentucky Derby. Messier is not running in the Preakness.

El Camino Real Derby winner Blackadder is headed to the barn of Christophe Clement after selling for $250,000 during Friday night’s Keeneland April horses of racing age sale. 

ELMONT, N.Y. - Trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. combined to win 13 races from 40 starters at Belmont Park’s two meets in 2021 and he will again have a presence in New York this summer as he plans to have 16 horses based here for the spring/summer meet that begins Thursday.

Among the group that will ultimately be here is Skippylongstocking, the third-place finisher in the Grade 2 Wood Memorial at Aqueduct on April 9. Skippylongstocking is scheduled to have his first work since the Wood on Friday at Gulfstream Park.

The global coronavirus pandemic turned life, including the Thoroughbred racing and sales calendar, upside down in 2020. But the shuffling of the sales calendar actually played out in favor of the small breeding program of John and Diane Fradkin.

The Fradkins had planned to offer for sale their homebred Rombauer, but the auction he was intended for was postponed. As a result, they campaigned Rombauer, and on Saturday he won the Preakness Stakes.

BALTIMORE - Though the first two victories of Rombauer’s career came on turf and synthetic, there was never any doubt in trainer Michael McCarthy’s mind the colt would be successful on dirt as well.

Rombauer’s first start on dirt resulted in a second-place finish in the Grade 1 American Pharoah at Santa Anita last September. Subsequent starts in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile and Blue Grass Stakes - while both defeats at Keeneland - also gave McCarthy reasons for optimism.

For the second time of the last four that the Preakness has been run two weeks after the Kentucky Derby, a fresh horse proved best. This time it was ROMBAUER, who got the pace duel he craves compared to what unfolded in his prior start, the Blue Grass, resulting in an 11-1 upset Saturday at Pimlico.

He got a career-best Beyer Speed Figure of 102 for the victory.