MD-Bred Knicks Go Is Early 5-2 Favorite For Breeders' Cup Classic
Maryland-bred Knicks Go drew the No. 5 post on Monday in the nine-horse field for the 1 1/4-mile Breeders' Cup Classic. Trained by Brad Cox, he'll be ridden by Joel Rosario.
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Maryland-bred Knicks Go drew the No. 5 post on Monday in the nine-horse field for the 1 1/4-mile Breeders' Cup Classic. Trained by Brad Cox, he'll be ridden by Joel Rosario.
With a win at Saturday's Maryland Million Day, 4-year-old filly Hello Beautiful would join some elite company in the state's horse racing history.
Trainer Bob Baffert has been suspended for two years by Churchill Downs after an additional drug test of Medina Spirit confirmed the presence of the steroid betamethasone in the Kentucky Derby winner's system.
After a week dominated by the failed drug test of trainer Bob Baffert's Kentucky Derby-winning Medina Spirit, horse racing enjoyed a rare moment to celebrate at the Preakness when unheralded Rombauer gave owners John and Diane Fradkin and trainer Michael McCarthy a victory in their first Triple Crown race.
Rombauer wins the Preakness Stakes.
The horns inside Pimlico could be heard from one end of the race track to the other -- the Tune of 146 awaited!
For all the hype surrounding Medina Spirit coming off his victory at the Kentucky Derby, fellow Bob Baffert-trained Concert Tour was a popular pick to win the Preakness.
Born and raised in Columbia, Maryland, some of Charlie Marquez's first memories are of the Pimlico Race Course.
Maryland racing officials said Medina Spirit passed the first of three pre-race drug tests ahead of Saturday's Preakness Stakes.
Army Wife pulled off a mild upset in the Black-Eyed Susan Stakes on Friday at Pimlico Race Course as embattled trainer Bob Baffert's favored Beautiful Gift finished a well-beaten seventh.
Midnight Bourdon hopes to take a path to the winner's circle at the Preakness that has successfully been run before — 30 years ago.
Anyone who has ever wanted a personal video copy of Secretariat's 1973 Preakness victory or a digital rendering of the race's Woodlawn Vase — and an actual 28-inch replica of the trophy to go with it — is in luck.
Surrounded by a doping controversy, Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit is favored to win the Preakness at 9-5 following Tuesday's post-position draw.
It's Preakness week in Baltimore and some of the finest thoroughbred horses in the country are in town.
Despite a failed drug test after the Kentucky Derby, Medina Spirit will be able to run the Preakness in Baltimore Saturday.