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Unlike the Kentucky Derby this year, there should be a dry track for the 142nd running of the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico in Baltimore this weekend.  Cloudy and 69 degrees is predicted… a perfect day for racing! And again unlike the Derby the Preakness field is much smaller featuring only ten horses.  This year the […]

The field is set for another shot at a Triple Crown winner at Belmont Park this weekend. The 147th Belmont Stakes features 7 challengers in American Pharoah’s bid to become the first horse to win the Triple Crown since 1978. Post Position Horse Trainer Jockey Odds 1 Mubtaahij Michael de Kock Irad Ortiz Jr. 14-1 2 Tale […]

Security will be more intense at the Triple Crown Races this year. The Boston Marathon bombings have caused security officials at the 2013 races to enact additional restrictive security policies for fans attending the races. The Preakness Stakes near Baltimore, Maryland attracts over 100,000 fans and is the largest sporting event in the Washington metropolitan […]

Here is the field for the 2012 Belmont Stakes.  The horses are listed by position with the race day morning odds. 1. Street Life 8-1 2. Unstoppable U 20-1 3. Union Rags 3-1 4. Atigun 15-1 5. Dullahan 9-5 6. Ravelo’s Boy 30-1 7. Five Sixteen 30-1 8. Guyana Star Dweej 30-1 9. Paynter 7-2 […]

There will be no shot at The Triple Crown for 2012… In historically sad news the racehorse I’ll Have Another, winner of the 2012 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes, has been scratched from The Belmont due to a leg injury. The 3-year-old was the favorite to win The Belmont and end the long drought of no Triple […]

Well it looks like it’s all but guaranteed that I’ll Have Another will win the Triple Crown this Saturday at The Belmont. Sportswriter(?) Norman Chad has declared that it won’t happen so in my book that makes it a virtual lock. On why it won’t happen, Chad states… “They must race on three tracks in […]

Since 1978 eleven three year olds have won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes, the first two legs of the Triple Crown. Unfortunately for them The Belmont Stakes and the Triple Crown was beyond their grasps. Four times the third leg was nearly won with the Triple Crown candidate coming in second.  These four horses […]

It was deja vu at Pimilico today as I’ll Have Another turned it on down the stretch to overtake Bodemeister again and win the 2012 Preakness Stakes, the second leg of the Triple Crown. This years Preakness was the first time since 2007 that the top 2 finishers from the Kentucky Derby competed in the […]

The 2012 Preakness just got a little more interesting as Bob Baffert has announced that Kentucky Derby runner-up Bodemeister will race in the Preakness this Saturday in Baltimore, Maryland. Bodemeister started out at a blistering pace, nearly going wire to wire, until 15-1 shot I’ll Have Another caught him down the stretch. At first his […]

I’ll Have Another has been crowned the winner of the 2012 Kentucky Derby. Jockey Mario Gutierrez chased down Bodemeister as he appeared to tire out down the stretch from strong race he was running.  I’ll Have Another won by 1 1/2 lengths. I’ll Have Another paid $32.60  to win, $13.80 to place and $9 to show. […]