Mystik Dan doesn’t need a sloppy track — or “Seinfeld” character Cosmo Kramer’s comedic endorsement — in the Preakness on Saturday because the Kentucky Derby winner has raced and thrived in all kinds of conditions. But after initial favorite Muth was scratched mid-week and with rain in the forecast potentially mucking up the dirt
Jockey John Velazquez and favorite Gun Song stalked a pace-setting long shot through leisurely early fractions, drew even with her straightening for home and pulled away for an impressive victory Friday in the 1 1/8-mile Black-Eyed Susan Stakes at Pimlico
BALTIMORE — There is little doubt that Bob Baffert is one of the most accomplished horse trainers in North American history. He is only one of two trainers in the annals of the sport to have conditioned two Triple Crown
We have reached Preakness weekend, and today’s race is one of the Friday graded stakes races on their Friday 14-race program. Today we will take a look at the three-year-old fillies in the Black Eyed Susan as eight fillies will go a mile and an eighth on the main track. The post time for today’s race is set for approximately 5:44 pm Eastern time.
Brian Hernandez Jr. spent the leadup to the Kentucky Derby watching replays of winning rides by fellow jockeys to see what it would take to get the job done with Mystik Dan, particularly those of Hall of Famer Calvin Borel.
Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan slid into the favorite slot when Muth, a winner by six lengths over third-place Mystik Dan in the Arkansas Derby, spiked a fever on his second day at Pimlico and bowed out of the second leg of the Triple Crown.
Mystik Dan’s path to winning the Kentucky Derby opened up about midway through the final turn after he cleared out pacesetter Track Phantom and rode the rail to the slightest of victories. His path to capturing Saturday’s 149th Preakness Stakes
After a cancellation yesterday at Horseshoe Indy, we had to Queens for Aqueduct’s sixth race at maidens will go on the main track. Post time is set for 3:39 pm ET.
The field for the 149th Preakness Stakes has been set, and Muth was installed as the 8/5 morning line favorite for the middle leg of the 2024 Triple Crown. A field of nine was entered to go a mile and three-sixteenths and will go as 13th of 14 races on this monster card.