Strong Mandate, the D. Wayne Lukas trainee who’d been considered a possible Preakness starter, has been withdrawn from consideration for the race.
For Willie Delgado, California Chrome’s exercise rider, the upcoming trip to Baltimore represents a homecoming.
In today’s RaceBrief, we begin tracking the Preakness possibles, plus a regional roundup.
A twelfth-grader won the 15th annual Preakness Portraits Youth Art Contest, the Maryland Jockey Club announced.
California Chrome is headed to Baltimore and the Preakness, trainer Art Sherman told Pimlico officials.
Parx shipper Made Up crushed a good allowance field to take the featured race at Pimlico on Derby day.
In today’s RaceBrief, a Midlantic-bred wins a Santa Anita stake, while two others falter at Churchill, and a local win machine ties for the national lead.
Gary Stevens will not participate in the Jockey Challenge on Black-Eyed Susan day at Pimlico; the Challenge will have 7 of the 8 active Hall of Famers.
This week’s On Tap features the region’s best racing, including stakes from Parx and an intriguing allowance at Pimlico.
Pimlico’s turf superintendent estimated that 6.2 million gallons of water were dumped on the track yesterday. That didn’t bother Trevor McCarthy.