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With this mornings defection of Behindatthebar, Icabad Crane is the only Preakness starter not on the grounds at Pimlico. Big Brown jogged once around the muddy track at Pimlico. Rick Dutrow is planning to give Big Brown a short blowout down the stretch Saturday morning. The remaining Preakness contenders jogged and galloped Friday over the [...]

Fourteen minutes later, a second 18-wheel horse bus pulled up and off walked Preakness horses Gayego and Yankee Bravo. Slowly, but surely, the horses running in the Triple Crown’s second leg are finding their way to Pimlico. By the end of Wednesday, 10 of the 13 horses — including big Preakness favorite Big Brown — [...]

The only horse with a shot at the Triple Crown will be Kentucky Derby winner Big Brown. The Preakness Stakes will have a much shorter field than that of the Kentucky Derby, and Big Brown will be the only horse racing in both the derby and the Preakness Stakes. This makes for a very interesting [...]

And he must have had an inkling that he was on the verge of immortality. Only four other horse were even entered. However, Rags to Riches had never raced the boys before the Belmont Stakes last year, and look what happened with her. Although the race was a success at first, the track had financial [...]

Of course, you wouldnt know it here in Baltimore two weeks before the Preakness, but today is Kentucky Oaks Day in the Bluegrass State. In anticipation of the 134th Kentucky Derby tomorrow, they shut the place down and throw a big party celebrating life and horse racing. After visiting Louisville seven times over the past [...]

Any horse who wins like he did anywhere in the world is on the good side of my book. Throw in a gutsy effort in his first start and a bullet at Keeneland and you know at the end of this post who I’m picking to win. It also should be noted that if it [...]